John Samsell

It was fun recalling local clothing enterprises…so much so that it should just as entertaining to look at eating places...

Selection among the top 100 books was an interesting, though frustrating, endeavor. The list given had many writings that had...

Baseball a long-time favorite I don’t know why, but during my years at Morgantown High, the school had no baseball...

If you are interested in West Virginia’s mountains and valleys, you can find your fill by going to the south...

Statistics are an interesting part of history. For instance, look at those provided about Morgantown 80 years ago by the...

The geographic territory in which we live was developed through the centuries in a manner that included oceans and glaciers...

By John Samsell We already know why a chunk of Maryland is stuck inside West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle. It was...

It seems every West Virginian attempts to determine how and why landmarks got their names. Some attempts are humorous and...

As I look across this great state of ours I don’t see what our mountains once contained but a beginning...

By John Samsell Spring in Morgantown may be remembered by actions of citizens more than 25 years ago. For at...