Pocahontas County Fare

Our game camera pictures have been plentiful, and much alike. These deer visit regularly. However, Monday morning, the camera caught this: ...

Art of the Rural has a complete and interesting recap of the Stephen Bloom kerfuffle in "The Atlantic." I wasn't really curi...

The woodpile this year looks particularly nice, something for which I can take no credit. (The new chainsaw does look proud of itself.) Las...

For the last few months I've been scanning documents from the Pocahontas County Historical Society's archives. I'm still working...

I'm still pecking away at Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, making a search-able, sort-able version on Pocahontas County Histor...

State politics blog West Virginia Blue informed me last month that "Bill O'Reilly Hates You." Now, I already knew that Bill...

It's got an URL now, and there's something relevant on its index page: Pocahontas County History has gone live on the Web. After al...

Dave Bonta, of Via Negativa has posted an open letter to President Obama from nature writer Chris Bolgiano concerning wind power in Appala...

Throughout the presidential campaign, I was perfectly positioned to be insulted by both parties--I grew up on a farm and live in the country...

I'm sorry to report that I don't have a new local ghost story for this Halloween. You could revisit my old ones at Haunted Pocahon...

I confess to following the RSS feed for The Onion. It keeps me posted on important trends like this one: Realtors Blame Housing Market For ...

Recently, our local TV news has been reporting a new study indicating that life expectancies for rural Appalachian women have decreased in t...

Lincoln Walks At Midnight: A just-the-facts approach to politics and government in the Mountain State recently reported this interesting pu...

Oh, this is disappointing news for those of us seeking tourist-terrifying video material: "Shelter" movie's casting director f...

They're filming an Appalachian horror movie in Pittsburgh, starting soon, David M. Brown of the Pitsburgh Tribune-Review notes: Film...

It's taken me a couple of weeks to work out my response to Dave's guest-blogger, Chris Bolgiano, and her post, My Best Friend is ...

Sherry Chandler has an interesting series of posts on how the "ruling elite" of America identify portions of our population as ...

Dave Tabler's Appalachian History blog is active and always interesting. Recently, he posted about poet, playwright and novelist Olive ...

Last week I got Sherry Chandler's poetry book, Dance the Black-Eyed Girl . I'd been enjoying her poems for free on the Internet fo...

I came across a collection of American child labor photographs by chance, and thought they'd make a good follow-up to Mother Jones: Chi...