West Virginia is landlocked—but don’t tell the folks in the state’s biggest beach town.
Recent Stories from the Magazine
Changing the Channel
Nature knows best, it turns out, so West Virginia’s stream restorationists work to reverse human intervention and make waterways healthy again.
Take the Plunge
At ACE Adventure Resort’s Wonderland Waterpark, you can slip, slide, zip, and blob your way to a splashing good time.
A Better Tomato
The father of the WV ’63 is still improving the tomato on our behalf. Mannon Gallegly grew up on a cotton farm in Arkansas. He took a faculty position at West Virginia University in 1949 and became the state’s vegetable plant pathologist. Gallegly put particular effort into hybridizing tomatoes against the dreaded late blight that can destroy fruits and whole…
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Welder, Horologist, Entrepreneur
In a digital age, Carl Witt is making a go of it as a repairman of antique timepieces. Time used to be so audible. But the clock on the wall doesn’t tick these days, and conversations are never interrupted by the chiming of the quarter hour—much less by a cuckoo. So a visit to Carl Witt’s new Curiosity Clockworks in…
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