Holly Clark’s 100-year-old hay loft is a getaway for grown-ups. Remember those blanket forts you built as a kid? Depending on your preferred method of construction, they probably involved some combination of kitchen chairs and bed quilts. You might have furnished them with throw pillows, couch cushions, favorite storybooks, and stuffed animals. Kool-Aid and Goldfish crackers were likely involved. Before…
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Carriage House Glass at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling has something shiny for everyone. Light, color, and a sudden urge to “ooh” and “aah” greet most visitors when they step through the doors of Carriage House Glass on the grounds of Oglebay Resort & Conference Center in Wheeling. The more than 5,000-square-foot retail space is filled with everything from inexpensive marbles…
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This new Williamson café brings big-city taste to the coalfields. “We bounced around a whole lot of names before one stuck,” says Debbie Young, who owns a popular new café in downtown Williamson with her daughter Natalie Taylor and longtime friend Robyn Gannon. The trio eventually decided on 34:Ate, a nod to Psalms 34:8, which begins “O taste and see…
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Best Adventure town FAYETTEVILLE This tiny county seat might be small in size and population, but it’s the biggest name in adventure tourism east of the Mississippi. For years, “Fayetteville” has been synonymous with whitewater rafting. The town and its surrounding communities are home to a smattering of trusted outfitters ready to take you down the New River or its…
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Best Media Personality HOPPY KERCHEVAL Hoppy Kercheval grew up on a dairy farm in Jefferson County, where he made his first contact with the outside world through the family radio. Even then, he knew he wanted to spend his life on the airwaves. He went to work for West Virginia Radio Corporation in 1976 as a news anchor. Today, he…
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