Last Saturday, I drove over to the Heritage Farm holiday market in Huntington, W.V. Like many holiday markets, it featured handmade crafts, with a West Virginia touch: pottery, jewelry, framed religious passages, Joe Manchin sacks made from Joe Manchin scarves (I didn’t know elected officials and/or candidates hadtheir own lines of scarves until now), axes,…
The weekend of October 12, my sister, a friend and I traveled south, winding around hills and hairpin turns to Lewisburg, W.V. — population just shy of 4,000 — for the weekend. Ostensibly the main attraction was TOOT, or Lewisburg’s annual “Taste of our Town,”…
Part 1: The Part about Pumpkins At the West Virginia Pumpkin Festival — taking place off I-64 in Milton this weekend, a town whose four-paneled brochure advertises Shonet’s Country Café and Aunt B’s Bakery and Barbeque — there is pumpkin fudge, pumpkin pie, pumpkin dip,…
The first post will be arriving shortly.
