Celebrate berry season with this inhalable blackberry cobbler. As the late poet Seamus Heaney wrote, “summer’s blood” is inside blackberries, “leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for picking.” It’s just the season for picking, too. The end of summer through early autumn is berry season and has berry pickers rushing to the bush. There are 13 pick-your-own farms across…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Affliction of the Innocents
A West Virginia physician plans to halve the number of drug-affected babies by 2020—with cold, hard numbers. The halls at Lily’s Place, an old Huntington podiatrist’s office turned infant drug withdrawal center, are almost noiseless. For drug-affected newborns, almost any kind of stimulus is unbearable. “Sometimes just talking to them is too much stimulation,” says clinical care manager Rhonda Edmunds. The nurseries…
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Little Lake of Horrors
Celebrate Halloween by traveling to one of the state’s spookiest spots—the abandoned Lake Shawnee Amusement Park outside Princeton. In photos from the 1950s you can see the charm of the place. Suntanned teenagers in bathing suits float in a pool, sun reflecting off a water slide in the distance. A smattering of heavy, handsome cars are parked in a gravel…
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In the Wild
In its more than 125 years, the outdoorsmen retreating to the Cheat Mountain Club have changed, but it has stayed the same. The Cheat Mountain is especially long and high, even compared to the rest of West Virginia’s rough terrain. The ridge is some 70 miles long—it stretches from Snowshoe in the southwest all the way past Elkins in the northeast—and includes 9 of…
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Cool Kid
In Morgantown, Bryn Perrott has stumbled onto an artistic career with a life of its own. Bryn Perrott has that kind of effortless cool everyone else—or at least those of us who preoccupy ourselves with such vain concerns—can only aspire to. It doesn’t work for us because we’re trying too hard, we’re self-conscious, we make it look like work. Bryn doesn’t…
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