Pocahontas County Fare

Via Northwest History , a selection of negative ads for the presidential race of 1864: The Ads that Could Have Won George McClellan the P...

Writer and star of the Broadway musical In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda performs "The Hamilton Mixtape" at the White House Even...

Because I'm involved in a local history project with ambitions of putting Pocahontas County collections and archives on line, I was very...

It's wonderful to hear Pete Seeger singing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" at yesterday's concert at the Li...

When TV political commentators make historical comparisons with current events, it seems to me they seldom venture back before the Reagan ad...

Skunks drop by the house pretty regularly in warm weather. They like sunflower seeds, the compost pile, and grubs, and sometimes they spend...

Lincoln Walks At Midnight points to several articles on the presidential race in West Virginia, including The Washington Post's A New ...

Sometimes I read something that makes me wonder if I live on the same planet as the writer. This Dust Bowl reverie, hot on the heels of yes...

When I saw the cable news tape showing smoke rolling out of a window in the Old Executive Office Building in D.C. this week, I just hoped on...