Glen has worked with many Nashville recording artists since 1995, and he won the Colgate Country Showdown in 2002. His first national radio release was a self-written Top 40 hit on the country charts in 2004. He has continued to work with well-known artists such as Jimmy Fortune who recorded with Glen on Glen’s latest [...]

Huntersville is showing off and everyone’s invited!  Jeannie Dunham, one of the co-chairpersons, along with Terry and Connie Carr of the Huntersville Tradition Days says “People will get to experience some of the lost arts and workmanship of our fore fathers.”  Huntersville Tradition Day will be Saturday October 2, 2010.
It was no uncommon thing for [...]

The end of June several of us from the office went out with a couple of professional photographers from Blackbird Studios in Lewisburg.  The first part of the day was spent at Clover Lick about 13 miles north of Marlinton where there is an old C & O depot that sits close to the [...]

New neon colored street flags greet motorists along Rt 39 from the bridge
east just pass the Greenbrier River Trail  representing fun family activities in the area such as canoeing, bicycling, and winter fun in the region.  The colors and the scenes depict seasons as well….there is something to do around here all year.  Many [...]

Today the Pocahontas County Chamber of Commerce announced several new events for the upcoming Autumn Harvest Festival and WV RoadKill Cook-off.  According to committee chair Sherry Radcliff of Green Bank “We’re pulling out all the stops to make sure there’s plenty of fun for every member of the family.”

The 44th annual Pioneer Days celebration comes to downtown Marlinton July 7 through 11.  This festival has something for all ages from baby pageants to mud bogs to the grand parade on Saturday afternoon. For details on the daily schedule including the bands, go to this link.

Saturday June 26 is the birthday of Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck. This article on her writing is offered as a celebration of the person she was and how she still influences life today.
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck, productive writer and humanitarian extraordinaire was born on June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro West Virginia. [...]

The McClintic Library is home to the largest West Virginia and Appalachian collection of any small library in the state and has a Heritage Room with local historical materials and facilities for genealogical research, as well as a subscription to Ancestry.com.  The Pocahontas Libraries have an extensive oral history archive and [...]

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory located in Green Bank is open daily from 8:30am to 7 pm and offers free public tours at the top of each hour until 6pm. Every Friday at 2pm they offer a look at the night sky in their portable Star Lab Planetarium. There is a $3 fee per person [...]

In the Appalachian Mountains when people hear the name Mike Bing they automatically think of Allegheny Echoes. The two have been together since 1997 when Mike, Kirk Judd, Sherrell Wigal, John Blisard and Monica Bing established the Allegheny Echoes annual summer workshops in Pocahontas County.