A Look Back

By William “Skip” Deegans Had Monroe County spy Andrew Summers Rowan been born in the 20th century he may have...

By William “Skip” Deegans “Union Manganese Mine Said Rich” was the headline in the Hinton Daily News on October 24,...

A Moonlight Rainbow While traveling through the West Virginia Mountains, I stopped all night at the famous Old Blue Sulphur...

By William “Skip” Deegans Shown in the photograph is the original Golden Delicious Apple tree near Odessa in Clay County,...

By William “Skip” Deegans Greenbrier Countians were well aware of the inherent dangers of harvesting timber, but they surely were...

By William “Skip” Deegans Shown in this 1904 photo is the remarkably ornate West Virginia State Building that was built...

By William “Skip” Deegans Above is an artist’s depiction of a 19th century West Virginia sheep farm. An early account...

By William “Skip” Deegans As railroads expanded in West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century, remote tracts of...

By William “Skip” Deegans A few miles west of Rainelle and a short distance off U.S. Rt. 60 is the...

By William “Skip” Deegans One-hundred years ago this month, the Gentry Brothers James Patterson Circus arrived in Ronceverte on 31...