A Look Back

Photo of GMS before the fire from BriarPatch. By William “Skip” Deegans One-hundred years ago, this month, Lewisburg’s Greenbrier Military...

Photo of a portrait at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. By William “Skip” Deegans Pictured is a portrait...

By William “Skip” Deegans Lewisburg’s town council, in 1899, met and “determined that it would no longer employ a public scavenger,...

By William “Skip” Deegans The poet Anne Spencer was born on a Virginia farm circa 1880. Her mother was Sarah...

By William “Skip” Deegans Had it not been for concerned residents of Hinton, Caldwell might look similar to this postcard...

BRYANT, ANITA / MISS AMERICA / MISS OKLAHOMA.: UNKNOWN: Caption reads, Oklahoma entertainer Anita Bryant may not have won the...

By William “Skip” Deegans In 1809 or 1810, 20-year old Henry Ruffner from Kanawha County enrolled at the Lewisburg Academy....

By William “Skip” Deegans West Virginia history students who prepped for the Golden Horseshoe competition were required to memorize the...

By William “Skip” Deegans New Year’s Day in 1925 found over 200 families living in tents, make-shift barracks, and other...

By William “Skip” Deegans For many years, the Meyer Davis Orchestra was analogous to The Greenbrier. On the first anniversary...