When the weekend comes, program your GPS for these family-friendly attractions. Summer is the season of road trips—windows rolled down, happy music on the radio, a cooler full of ice-cold sodas in the back. It’s a great way to spend time with the ones you love. And the best part is, you don’t have to travel far or spend a…
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West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle is home to several historic houses with ties to our founding father.
This is the place to go for pasta, pepperoni rolls, and everything in between. Every restaurant on this list could be called a Clarksburg culinary institution. Something about the town, with its cliques of older Italian gentlemen, food-centric Italian-American culture, and legion legacy food establishments makes its food scene unlike any other in the state. When you have a hankering…
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This tiny market is a huge boon to its community. Off Route 50 in Capon Bridge travelers are raving about a little store and butcher shop. Fresh-cut meats, ground sausages, cured bacon, produce, breads, coffee, wines and beer, daily sandwiches, and specials—we could fill pages with the selections at Farmer’s Daughter Market & Butcher. “We try to source as much…
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Dwight Garner, a book critic for The New York Times, was born in Fairmont but spent many of his early years in Charleston. He gets back whenever he can, so we caught up with Garner to ask about his favorite hometown haunts. Taylor Books “This is one of America’s genuinely great independent bookstores. Taylor Books has a carefully curated selection…
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