MORGANTOWN – Pepperoni rolls and Mothman have their place in the hillbilly pantheon of Mountain State history, but West Virginia and its origins – as the latest Knights and Ladies of the Golden Horseshoe can attest – is way more telling. The Golden Horseshoe is the state Department ...
Sure, you know your West Virginia pop culture. Your Mothman, your Mary Lou Retton, and the like. You know your favorite foods: pepperoni rolls, ramps, a certain hot dog place with a certain sauce. That’s the fun stuff, but there’s also the serious history of how West Virginia got ...
Say you’re a West Virginian — born, bred and everything. Say you moved here for college and never left, thus claiming (and not unjustly) Wild, Wonderful as yours, too. Say you’re always ready, at the drop of your WVU ball cap, to summon the pastoral pantheon of pop culture icons ...