Employers worry a flagging work ethic in West Virginia will hamper future growth. The great virtue of West Virginia workers was never that they were the smartest in the world—although they have proven to be plenty smart. West Virginia workers also never claimed to possess superior strength, although their backs were always strong enough to complete the task at hand….
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At Kin Ship Goods in Charleston, business, creativity, and coziness intersect. The motto at Kin Ship Goods is “stay cozy,” and it suits them. On a sunny but cold Tuesday this spring the store’s owners, Dan Davis and Hillary Harrison, opened up the store so we could talk about their business and their art. Kin Ship, a little shop tucked…
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Legislators make the state’s liquor distribution system more palatable to small distillers. West Virginia’s secret government warehouse isn’t quite what I thought it would be. It was easily visible from the interstate, although I suppose that could be part of a hiding-in-plainsight strategy. Driving past on a two-lane road, I could see two sides of the warehouse are lined with…
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In Malden a seventh-generation business draws on an ancient natural resource to please a modern palate. Lewis Payne, chief operating officer of J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works in Malden, is a practical man, one part professional in the resource management industry and one part entrepreneur. Still, he believes the story of his family’s business shows the hand of fate. How else could…
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Leonoro’s Spaghetti House celebrates 100 years in the Capital City. Like always, we start the sauce out every morning. That’s our bread and butter,” says Albert Leonoro early on a Wednesday morning from the kitchen of Leonoro’s Spaghetti House in Charleston. It’s been 100 years since Leonoro’s opened its doors in Charleston, first as a confectionary and then as a…
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