By This story was originally published in the August 2017 issue of Wonderful West Virginia. To subscribe, visit wonderfulwv.com. West Virginia’s historically black colleges and universities have helped to shape the world. It wasn’t enough just to free the slaves, it quickly became apparent after the Civil War. There had to
A Family Tradition
The Hern family has made decades of memories in West Virginia State Parks. When Russ Hern was old enough for his mother to trust him to go off on his own, he’d ride his bike two miles from his home to Cedar Creek State Park. That’s where the playground was,
June 2018 Photo Gallery
Photographers focus on our favorite fair-weather foliage, ferns.
Monuments to History
This story was originally published in the June 2016 issue of Wonderful West Virginia. To subscribe, visit wonderfulwv.com. West Virginia’s gristmills and sawmills evoke the spirit of early industry. There is something hypnotic about the rhythmic sounds of an old mill: the creak of a gear wheel turning over and
