A Look Back

Photo from The American Chestnut Foundation. Sources: Hinton Daily News, The Independent Herald, The American Chestnut Foundation. By William “Skip”...

Photo courtesy of Duke University. Sources: The Miami Herald, The Miami News, Time Magazine, Episcopal Archives, Detail and Punish =...

Sources: Arthurdale Heritage Arthurdale by Franklin Park Charleston Gazette-Mail. Photo from The Library of Congress. This Week’s Historic Photo: Arthurdale...

By William “Skip” Deegans Shown in the 1934 photograph is Charles G. “Trusty” Tallman. Tallman has the distinction of having...

Photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library. Sources: Radio interview with Studs Terkel, New York Times, Stanford University. Shown...

By William “Skip” Deegans In 1963, the champion steer and lamb raised by 4-H club members were auctioned at the...

By William “Skip” Deegans In August 1907, the Lewisburg Athletic Association organized an exhibition game between Green’s Nebraska Indian Baseball...

Photo courtesy of the Greenbrier Independent. By William “Skip” Deegans Older readers may remember the Tuxedo Six-Horse Hitch that appeared...

By William “Skip” Deegans In 1941, the National Garden Conference was convened to set the groundwork for the World War...

In July 1965, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) purchased 61.3 acres on the Greenbrier and Pocahontas border for $5,000 from Willam...