A Look Back

By William “Skip” Deegans In the 1920s, Ronceverte Motors Co. was the dealer for the Jewett Six automobile. It is...

By William “Skip” Deegans The Putnam County Pickers (aka Pickers), arguably one of West Virginia’s most popular and beloved bands...

Etching from Prominent Men of West Virginia (1890). By William “Skip” Deegans Following the end of the Civil War, politics...

Photo courtesy of The Library of Congress. By William “Skip” Deegans Shown in the photograph is a bridge over Virginia’s...

By William “Skip” Deegans The town of Alderson has the unique designation of having two railroad cars named after it....

Photo from Wikipedia. By William “Skip” DeegansOne-hundred years ago, this month, Monroe County native, Christopher Harrison Payne, died at St....

By William “Skip” Deegans This advertisement for Sloan’s Liniment appeared in numerous small town newspapers, including Lewisburg’s Greenbrier Independent in...

Photo from the National Portrait Gallery. By William “Skip” Deegans On November 26, 1975 Lynette Alice “Squeaky” Fromme was found...

Photo courtesy of the West Virginia University West Virginia Regional History Center. By William “Skip” Deegans When the Greenbrier Division...

Advertisement courtesy of the West Virginia Daily News. By William “Skip” Deegans One can only imagine that many Greenbrier Countians...