West Virginia Farming Scene
27 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Big Harts Creek
27 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Big Harts Creek
24 Tuesday Sep 2013
23 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in Music
Tags
Appalachia, Cabell County, fiddler, fiddling, Fred B. Lambert, Guyandotte River, history, J.T. "Pomp" Wentz, music, photos, steamboats, West Virginia

J.T. “Pomp” Wentz, riverboat captain in the Guyandotte Valley. From the Fred B. Lambert Papers, Special Collections Department, Morrow Library, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.
21 Saturday Sep 2013
20 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Fourteen
Tags
Appalachia, culture, Fourteen Mile Creek, genealogy, history, John Henan Fry, life, Lincoln County, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia

John Henan Fry
20 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Ed Haley
18 Wednesday Sep 2013
Posted in Coal
Tags
Appalachia, coal, culture, history, labor, life, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia
18 Wednesday Sep 2013
Posted in Big Ugly Creek, Timber
30 Friday Aug 2013
Posted in Calhoun County, Ed Haley, Music
Tags
Akron, Appalachia, Calhoun County, culture, fiddler, fiddlers, fiddling, history, Kerry Blech, life, music, Ohio, photos, Rector Hicks, U.S. South, West Virginia
25 Sunday Aug 2013
Posted in Logan
Tags
Appalachia, culture, history, life, Logan, Logan County, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia

Logan Court House, built 1904, destroyed by fire 1911.
24 Saturday Aug 2013
Posted in John Hartford, Music
Tags
Appalachia, banjo, bluegrass, culture, history, John Hartford, life, Museum of Appalachia, music, Norris, photos, Tennessee
23 Friday Aug 2013
Posted in Ed Haley
Tags
Appalachia, Ashland, genealogy, history, Kentucky, life, Mona Haley, photos
21 Wednesday Aug 2013
Posted in Civil War
20 Tuesday Aug 2013
Posted in Native American History
Tags
American Revolution, Appalachia, history, Mason County, Native American History, photos, Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Monument commemorating the Battle of Point Pleasant, which occurred between Native Americans and Virginians at the mouth of the Kanawha River on October 10, 1774. Considered the key event of Dunmore’s War, some regard it as the first battle of the American Revolution. Photo taken in the spring of 2013.
17 Saturday Aug 2013
Posted in Native American History
13 Tuesday Aug 2013
Posted in Ed Haley
Tags
Appalachia, Edden Hammons, fiddler, history, life, music, photos, West Virginia
13 Tuesday Aug 2013
Posted in Big Sandy Valley, Coal, Matewan
Tags
Appalachia, culture, history, Matewan, Mingo County, photos, West Virginia

Matewan, West Virginia, 2008
08 Thursday Aug 2013
Posted in Culture of Honor, Hatfield-McCoy Feud
Tags
Appalachia, culture, Devil Anse Hatfield, feud, life, photos, Tug River, West Virginia
29 Monday Jul 2013
Posted in Logan
Tags
Appalachia, Aracoma, history, life, Logan County, photos, West Virginia
16 Tuesday Jul 2013
Posted in Ed Haley
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