Pocahontas County Fare

Beartown State Park is an interesting rock formation on Droop Mountain, almost on the Pocahontas-Greenbrier county line. In the 1970's t...

While we're thinking about West Virginia history, we should remember that Sid Hatfield was kin to Anse Hatfield, and the other particip...

On this day in West Virginia history: On January 28, 1921, the trial of police chief Sid Hatfield for his role in the Matewan Massacre be...

Louise McNeill , Pocahontas County's most famous poet, wrote a short piece about her paternal grandfather, called The Prison Notebook o...

The 2006 NATO Riga Summit's Latvian Mittens pages include some wonderful images, and also an image archive including 5255 mitten pictur...

If you knit mittens (or socks, or do any kind of knit colorwork) you need to take a look at Latvian Mittens . You could say I found these i...

These are my favorite lingerie-sewing resources. I have no financial interest in any of them, beyond a desire that they stay in business so ...

Hillbilly Babylon is the name of a Appalachian film and bluegrass music festival in Berlin. I'm not familiar with the musicians (they s...

My scrap fabric reclamation project last month involved tee-shirt trials as well as lingerie pattern and fabric experimentation. I'm c...

On This Day in West Virginia History...African- American railroad worker John Hardy was hanged at Welch, McDowell County, on January 19, ...

When I made the clothesline full of tee-shirts last month , I was searching for the "perfect" tee-shirt pattern. I'd been us...

Henry Shapiro's 1986 book, Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920 , d...

I've found these two academic books very interesting as I cruise the bookshelves, reading about Appalachia. They were published 20 year...

There is a big stand of sugar maple on our ridge, the progeny of three old trees in a long abandoned fence row. I had plans to sugar this w...

I seem to be on a long do-it-yourself kick. Computer upgrades, sewing projects, and now, upgrading my "Web presence." It's way...

You never know what you'll find on Sherry Chandler's weblog. It's usually poetry, thoughtful political commentary, Kentucky his...

Three days spent on data backup. The good news is, my data are backed up (redundantly). The bad news is, I spent three days doing it. I orde...

I spent Thursday and Friday immersed in chemistry review and computer chores. Everything takes longer than you think it's going to in b...

Several years ago, when I started sewing more with knit fabrics, I read that you should save even small scraps, because they could be used ...

Given this winter's weather so far, I thought it would be wise to document that we had some snow in January. School was canceled, altho...