Oglebayfest celebrates the 90th anniversary of Oglebay Park. This fall, celebrate the 90th anniversary of the inception of Oglebay Park—the only self-supporting public municipal park in the country—with a trip to Oglebayfest. What was once celebrated as Wheeling’s homecoming has become one of the largest events around, as Oglebay’s 2,000 acres come alive with the largest arts festival in the…
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Blennerhassett Island’s annual Mansion by Candlelight transports guests to a 19th century soiree. For those traveling the Ohio River at the turn of the 19th century, Blennerhassett Island must have appeared as if out of a dream. Travelers would have seen only rugged frontierland and the occasional log cabin for most of their journey downstream. But here, in the middle…
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Preparations are underway for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain. For five days in the summer of 1921, the coalfields of southern West Virginia were a warzone. Miners, intending to unionize the coal mines or die trying, clashed with state police, local militiamen, and coal company thugs at the Battle of Blair Mountain. The bloodshed only came…
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A beloved Roane County tradition celebrates its 64th year. For most of us, October brings visions of pumpkins and fodder shocks. But for the residents of Spencer, in Roane County, it’s all about black walnuts. The 2018 West Virginia Black Walnut Festival begins on Thursday, October 11 this year and lasts until Sunday afternoon, October 14. Many events take place during…
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Meet the Charleston native who curated the gardens at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. When Charleston native Eleanor Gould finished her graduate degree in landscape architecture at the University of Virginia, she got a job as a seasonal gardener at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and worked her way up to become curator of those gardens. Eight years later, Gould is now leaving for…
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