By Unearthing the real story behind West Virginia’s most famous archaeological fraud.
Butter Up
In West Virginia, autumn means apple butter. Meet a family helping to keep the tradition alive. Kathy Legg grew up in the hills of Clay County—in Fola, West Virginia, to be exact—just down the road from her maternal grandmother. Her grandmother’s house was always full of family and food. Actually,
The Sportsman
This story was originally published in the August 2018 issue of Wonderful West Virginia. To subscribe, visit wonderfulwv.com. Glenn Jones has been providing new hunters with safety training for nearly four decades. Glenn Jones completed his first hunter safety course in 1980, the second-ever hunter education class taught in West
Living Traditions
Fort New Salem in Harrison County teaches visitors about a way of life long forgotten. It was in early September 1789, before the first hard frost, when a group of Seventh Day Baptists—men, women, and children—left New Jersey to start a new life. They would eventually settle in western Virginia
Swapping Luck for Planning
The 2015 State Wildlife Action Plan gives us a first-ever comprehensive roadmap for protecting the state’s at risk species. It’s hard to imagine how West Virginia’s Cheat Mountain salamander survived the early-1900s clear-cut of the virgin red spruce forest and the wildfires that followed. The scrappy, lung-less, brass-flecked amphibian somehow
