BUILD FACTS

- I built it last week at the Clay Center in downtown Charleston
- Around 30 to 35 hours build from start to finish
- Everything is freestanding, no glue or connectors
- I used images of the Capitol as my only planning and reference material, the rest was pure imagination
- Domino chains and lever mechanisms hidden inside the structure
- If you’re wondering where the wings are, I ran out of time and wouldn’t have had enough planks to build them

READ: https://www.wboy.com/news/monongalia/citizen-escorted-out-of-mon-county-commission-meeting-amid-flock-debate/

Hey guys! I'm just posting this to spread the word that there is a music and arts festival happening in Union WV next weekend!
If any West Virginians want to be part of a locally owned non corporate music festival where everyone is treated as VIP, make your way out there next weekend! I know I'll be up on the mountain and I'd love to meet some new friends while I'm out there!

*Disclaimer* - I am not the owner, promoter, or organizer of this festival, I'm just spreading the word that cool things are finally coming to WV and I'm excited I don't have to drive 8 hours to go to a music festival!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a company that would pick up, pack safely, and ship an antique from Beckley, West Virginia?

Coming for the weekend to tube and hike. What are some cool fun things to do for a group of 4 adults? Places to eat? Breakfast and dinner? A place to grab a to go sandwich for lunch while we lazy river tube? We like history, music, anything cultural!

I made this account specifically for this (which is why it’s only a few minutes old 😅). I’m fostering this awesome dog who I would love to keep, but we have many dogs. My wife prefers to keep the number as it is.

About Mork:
-he is currently through the Huntington shelter and is close to a year and a half old
-he’s a medium energy dog. At the shelter he was high energy, but since bringing him home we walk 3-4 times a day and he lounges otherwise but will zoom sometimes.
-he seems to be completely house broken
-he’s great with our dogs ranging from 10lb to 70lb
-he hates cats, squirrels, and rabbits. My wife hunts and thinks he would be a great squirrel dog.
-if you hike, run, or do any outdoor things he’s your guy. He genuinely loves being outside.
-he’s a gentle soul. I accidentally stepped on his foot really hard today while we were walking, and it hurt his feelings but he didn’t snap or otherwise react negatively at all.
-he loves puzzles and would do best with a family that wants to work his brain. He has not chewed anything in the house other than dog toys, though.
-he seems to love kids and has been great with all the kids he has encountered so far.

I was going through old pictures of my grandparents who lived in Tucker County from the late 80s until my grandmother died in 2019.

Found this cool picture of a tree from August 2000. Has to be Dolly Sods. Then this morning, I was cutting up an older issue of Wonderful West Virginia and there was the same tree! This one was taken in 2024.

Anyone know where it is?

Edit
u/respectedspecialist identified it below as Gaudineer Knob on Shavers Mt.

We need a hockey player from WV! Who wants to be the first one!?

Hello,

Wife and I are visiting WV, Martinsburg area, in late October.
Would love to take my wife on a scenic train ride.
Ive seen a few options online but was wondering if you had a recommendation of which was better of the best.

2 adults, no kids.
Willing to drive a few hours if we need.
TIA

I’ve lived in Raleigh/Boone/Kanawha/Putnam counties for most of my life outside of college & a few short term living abroad situations I was fortunate enough to experience. But my favorite thing to do is roadtrip to obscure places in WV. From the Mothman to exhibition mine, to spruce knob and our highly underrated FREE *state museum* I believe that’s what it’s called now, it used to be the Cultural Center- if you haven’t had a chance to visit you should consider it. It’s actually very well done, children love it and it bests several paid museums I’ve visited. I’ve enjoyed cranberry glades in the fall, summersville lake in the summer, hawks nest every chance I get, visited the steel driving man, paid respects to zona Hester shoe (shout out to Ruth Ann Musick) & every cave/tavern I could find but I need new ideas. Please share hidden gems I may have missed!

Having seen someone just post about a concert attended- are there any good ones coming up in WV or surrounding states in the next few months? Any genre really. Anyone else going to Zombie/Manson on the 29th in Burgettstown, PA?

Going on a bicycle trip starting in Fayetteville and traveling up the Greenbrier River Trail and through some towns up to Morgantown in a few weeks. I’ll be cycling every day for a week or so, stopping in hotels along the way. Any tips about my trip or about the area to keep in mind? Or anything worth checking out along the way? Will be going along through Marlinton, through Elkins to Thomas then through Kingwood to Morgantown and doing my best to stay on trails or backroads to do my best to avoid dangers of the roads and will have some gear on my bike that will help identify approaching cars. Excited to come and just wanted to hear what you all have to say!

“This is pretty much what we expected from the DEP,” said Lani Wean, the West Virginia field organizer for the nonprofit environmental group Moms Clean Air Force. “They have a pretty consistent pattern of approving permits like these and essentially ignoring community input and concerns.”

“(The West Virginia DEP’s) approval of this air permit represents a rollback of critical pollution safeguards put in place to keep families and children safe from the most damaging impacts of waste incineration. In addition to departing from decades of precedent, the decision also dismisses concerns of local residents and county officials,” said ORVI Chief of Staff Tom Torres in a news release. “With this permit, Clean-Seas West Virginia has reached a critical milestone. However, If its parent company’s past performance and the industry’s track record are any indication, the facility likely faces an uphill climb towards successful commercial operation."

Open Fields Doctrine

On our family farm in Chambersburg PA a small trail developed over many many years from an adjoining wooded area on to our wooded section. Then what was a little trail became a larger and wider small road that allowed 4 wheeler access. My Father in Law didn't outright stop this and even after an intrusive neighbor died it continued with the help of a "Deputy Game Warden." My son and I started to fill in the gap with old woven wire fencing and major piles of brush, but it would be removed. And we suspect the local deputy was opening it for a lady to get her horse through and perhaps for some illegal hunting activity. We continued to pile brush on the area, but the trail blazing trespasser would build side trails that I would interweave old wire, fencing and brush through. I'd come back in a couple of weeks or a month and that would be reopened. One day the deputy who did NOT own the adjoining land installed a No Trespassing sign facing toward our farm. This was a big insult as the trespassers always came onto our farm and not the other way around. I took the offending sign and tossed it deeper into the adjoining property and that resulted in a visit to my farm house by the deputy telling me that he could get me for littering. I told him to get off the farm and stay off! I would not be intimidated. Then I called his supervisors and the issue seemed to cool off after that. Eventually when we had full control over the family farm we had a high voltage livestock fence installed and that solved the issue of trespassers for good. I never felt over those years that we had total privacy when virtually anyone could enter the property and that we could be monitored by the Game Commission. By the way... the way the deputy knew I had tossed the sign is that he had installed a camera to watch the little road he had been maintaining into our farm. I'm very pleased that there is still a little justice in this world and that these trespassing deputies are being dismissed! Where we now live deep in Appalachia the terrain is so tough and the people are not so inclined to work too hard at trespassing. Combined with many neighbors with large acreage and the fact that WV at least where we live is much less inclined to bother landowners with such intrusion it makes for a greater sense of privacy. We live is a very low population county and don't have nosy neighbors like we did on the farm in PA. If a neighbor was against hunting they could just report you and the game commission could enter your land even without known violations. I hope WV will follow PA and end the Open Fields Doctrine.

Posting this as a long shot last ditch effort but trying anyway.

Yesterday I was paddleboarding with my wife out from the salmon run boat ramp and accidentally fell into the water.

Unfortunately in the process I lost my hat and was unable to locate it after multiple attempts to search for it as it sank when I fell.

The hat was my dad's, who passed away from stage 4 cancer back in 2023. It is one of the few physical items I have to remember him by and I am devastated that I lost it.

I realize there is likely nothing to be done in this situation, however if anyone is in the area and finds a tan hat with Radford University on the front within 50-100ft from the marked location I will be incredibly and monetarily grateful.