A WVU law grad looks back on a life helping clients get justice, helping lawyers get sober, and helping everyone else keep a song in their heart. The “Earl of Elkview,” George Daugherty, perches atop a stool next to the Don Knotts statue on Morgantown’s High Street. He is playing an American flag guitar and looking the statue directly in…
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Siblings keep the family farm alive with a new cash crop. Growing up, Mit Abbott and her brother Mark Weaver heard lots of stories about their family’s multi-generational farm. “My dad, he always had a lot of pride in family heritage,” Abbott says. “We have a wooden trunk filled with old family pictures. He loved going through those and telling…
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An Eastern Panhandle bakery moves up in the world. Terry Wilson and Marla Staubs opened A Step in Time Bake Shop in February 2017 in a small house on West Washington Street in Bolivar. Locals soon fell in love with everything that emerged from the shop’s ovens. But two dishes—Mama Jo’s Pepperoni Rolls and Cliffside Rum Rolls—gained a popularity all…
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A beloved, century-old theater in the heart of Clarksburg makes a second comeback this fall. When the amazing Kreskin performed at the Robinson Grand Theater in downtown Clarksburg in the early 1990s, the famous mentalist set himself a suspenseful challenge: If he couldn’t figure out which audience member held his paycheck, he wouldn’t be paid for the evening’s entertainment. Mayor…
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Feast your eyes, fill your belly, and get a good night’s sleep at Tari’s Premier Cafe and Inn, a family-run Berkeley Springs institution. Plenty of businesses claim their employees are “one big family.” But Tari’s Premier Cafe and Inn in Berkeley Springs—located just a short walk away from the historic mineral baths for which the town is famous—can make a…
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