Pocahontas County Fare

Burl Hammons tells this story to accompany his own version of "Turkey in the Straw" on "The Hammons Family: Traditions of a ...

Burl Hammons tells this story in "The Hammons Family: Traditions of a West Virginia Family and Friends." This photo shows Burl...

If you're interested in traditional Appalachian string band music, you may have heard of Pocahontas County's Hammons family. Folklo...

Here's another Pocahontas County ghost story I found on the Internet. I've never heard this from a county native, so consider its s...

In 2000, I took this picture of the east end of my house, the pear tree, and the cat. I used color print film, and I scanned this print to ...

Here's the WVghost.com entry for Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park. Location: Droop Mountain Battlefield Status: Not Confirm...

The oldest and most highly-embroidered ghost story from the Droop Mountain Battlefield is summarized by Terry Lowry in Last Sleep: The Bat...

Another Pocahontas locality recorded as "haunted" is the old Denmar State Hospital. A lot of the older people here on Droop Moun...

A state highway marker west of Lewisburg (in nearby Greenbrier County) commemorates the "only known case in which testimony from [a] g...

Since I moved to Pocahontas County I've heard quite a few ghost stories. The storytellers have a variety of attitudes about their narra...

Phoresis. That's what this caterpillar was experiencing as I photographed him. I found him tearing across my porch at top speed, and nu...

We've started mowing off the garden. It's hard to believe the weedy, rotting mess we're working on now was this well-groomed pa...

I just finished Tony Hillerman's Skeleton Man (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) 2004. I am now up to date on my Hillerman reading. (I wro...

Here's the reference to the things Carie Stulting, Pocahontas County fiber artist, knitted for her family. I had thought it was in The E...

Earlier this week, I read The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. I was at the Hillsboro Library, looking for a re...

Peviously, I threatened to begin a history of fiber arts in Pocahontas County. I have been collecting snippets of information. Pearl S. Bu...

I've been using the Linux flavor of the GIMP to prepare photographs for my Web pages and this web log. I don't really know how t...

I got a new knitting book--the first one in a year. (I've been showing great restraint, always reminding myself that I don't play w...

When I was putting together the list of Web pages for Tony Hillerman a while back, I also found a few for another favorite genre author, J...

When I started this web log, I resolved to post every other day, to not natter on endlessly and self-referentially about the blogging proces...