A Look Back
By William “Skip” Deegans Shown above is an advertisement for an American Legion’s Fourth of July celebration at Bivens Hill...
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans Shown above is an advertisement for an American Legion’s Fourth of July celebration at Bivens Hill...
Read moreThe photo above shows a group of counselors in 1910. Photo courtesy of the West Virginia University West Virginia &...
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans For many years, summer in the Greenbrier Valley meant a trip to Ronceverte to see a...
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans In June 1914, part of General Charles Kelly’s Industrial Army (commonly called the Hobo Army) converged...
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans For many years college-bound students from the Greenbrier Valley attended Dunsmore Business College in Staunton, Virginia....
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans Shown in the circa 1940 photograph is the old bridge where U.S. Route 60 crossed the...
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans The poplar (aka yellow poplar, tuliptree) can grow to be the tallest of West Virginia’s hardwoods...
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans If there is a single fact that West Virginia students retain from prepping for the Golden...
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans When Grammy award winner and bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland performs at Lewisburg’s Carnegie Hall on May...
Read moreBy William “Skip” Deegans Shown is a 1941 photo of Dr. Louise McNeil Pease, who was born Louise McNeil in...
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