Pocahontas County Fare

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

Apropos of the SOPA/PIPA controversy last week, I've revised my short paper on digital copyright issues written for a local history proj...

The Charleston Gazette blogs recently featured this link: The industrialization of rural West Virginia caused by the Marcellus Shale gas pla...

From the Susan A. Price collection of the Pocahontas County Historical Society: Susan A. Price, Handwritten on back: "1203 Madison Ave...

I've been scanning materials from the Pocahontas County Historical Society archives since this past summer, and the last few days, I...

Have you noticed that every time I mention William T. Price on here, I fall silent for a long time afterwards? No? It's true. Because I...

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

Hillsboro, my mailing address, got a brief feature last month in The Atlantic Magazine online: Taking Comfort in Small Joys . The series, c...

I've been spending more time with Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County by William T. Price (1901) over at Pocahontas County History...

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

The last few weeks I've been spending a lot of time with Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County by William T. Price (1901), which is...

I've never been great at shifting gears mentally, so my current work configuration offers me a real challenge. I'm teaching courses...

You never know what you'll run across on line; I found Pocahontas County musician Pam Lund playing banjo with fiddler Dave Bing on ...

Last week, we tried to enter the twenty-first century. We hadn't wanted to rush into it, but it does look like it might take off. Becaus...

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...

This caught my attention last week: Shortage of General Surgeons Endangers Rural Americans by David Brown Washington Post , January 1, 2009...

Today is the anniversary of the 1863 Battle of Droop Mountain. The reenactors visited last month, when the weather is more likely to be pl...

This picturesque old church is our polling place on Droop Mountain. I am so glad Election Day is here. I heartily wish that all the TV ...

Along with selecting, installing and testing archival databases, I've been trying to learn the archivist-lingo, so that I may understand...

Ever since I moved to Pocahontas County, people have been telling me about the old-time apple variety "Wolf River." This was once...