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Recent News Updates:

01-25-2026OVER 100 YEARS AGO: THE PANDEMIC FLU OF 1918-19 KILLED MILLIONS - Calhoun Cemeteries Have Hundreds Of Victims
01-25-2026OKA HILLSIDE AFTER 150 YEARS OF CATTLE PASTURING
01-25-2026DANIELS RUN NEWS 1901 - Typhoid Fever Taking Toll, Politicians Like The Fair Sex, Maffit Sold His Hounds
01-25-2026SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO: MOUNTAIN WOMAN'S FUNERAL SLOWED BY 2009 BLIZZARD - 'Was Emma's Spirit Laughing?'
01-25-2026 2009 BLIZZARD HITS REGION - The Deepest Snow Since 1995-96, Major Power Outage, 1000s Stranded On WV Turnpike
01-25-2026OLDEST LETTER: 1843 LETTER CONNECTED TO CALHOUN COUNTY
01-25-2026SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Clarity: "Holding Reverent That Which Stands Before Us" - A Never Ending Epiphany
Minnie Hamilton Health System
01-24-2026 SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Surviving Knock Down WV Storms
01-24-2026SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Funeral Home Porch Sittin', "Clyde, Get His Pocketbook"
01-24-2026JOSEPH DISS DEBAR'S STATE SEAL CELEBRATED - Debar Sketched Calhoun County
01-24-20262012: 200TH ANNIVERSARY ORMA CHURCH - Church Closed 2025 After 213 Years, 1907 Gathering To Improve Church
01-24-2026EARLIEST TINTYPE PHOTO PRE-1900 CALHOUN SCHOOL
01-24-2026FLASHBACK TO CALHOUN'S GO-CART DAYS - Morris Bower Collection
01-24-2026THE KEATON-KNOTTS HOUSE - A West Fork Country Home
01-23-2026CHEATIN' DEATH ON THE MIGHTY CHEAT RIVER - Ode To Delores "Dee" Fullmer
01-23-2026SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Wonderment Of "Hick Talk" "Oh Mah Gawd, Ain't Ye Learnt Ta Tawk Yit?
01-23-2026CALHOUN BACKROAD: UPPER NICUT VALLEY - Lane 'What We Learned Was Work, Work, Work'
01-23-2026CALHOUN MAN CONNECTS WITH BIRDS OF THE FIELD - Parsons Treasures That Which Surrounds Him
01-23-2026WOMEN DISPLAY GUNS AND MOONSHINE AT FROZEN
01-23-2026 CALHOUN'S GREATEST GENERATION CHARLIE DUSKEY - Recalled "A Vicious Time For Dying" At Anzio Beach
01-23-2026DUDLEY LUTZ, PEARL KELLEY AND COURTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION - Looking Back
01-22-2026HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: THE MCCUMBERS COMETH - Pioneer Spirit Brought Hard Work And Mountain Music To Calhoun (Part Two)
01-22-2026HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: THE MCCUMBERS COMETH - Pioneer Spirit Brought Hard Work And Mountain Music To Calhoun County (Part 1)
01-22-2026MOUNTAIN MUSICIAN BUCK MCCUMBERS DEDICATED "MY CHRISTMAS DREAM" TO STALWART NICUT FAMILIES
01-22-2026CALHOUN FIDDLER LESTER MCCUMBERS RECALLED LEARNING MOUNTAIN MUSIC
01-22-2026FLASHBACK 1999: NY TIMES ARTICLE ON CALHOUN MUSIC MAKERS MCCUMBERS AND KRACK
01-22-2026HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: REMEMBERING: MUSIC ICON "PAPA FIDDLE" LESTER MCCUMBERS - "He Was Real, Loved Music"
01-22-20262015: CALHOUN MUSIC ICON LESTER MCCUMBERS PASSES AT 93 - "I've Lived A Simple Life, Close To The Earth, An Honest Record"
01-22-2026CALHOUN'S MOUNTAIN MUSIC ICON LESTER MCCUMBERS TEACHING AT WV STRING BAND FEST
01-22-2026LESTER MCCUMBERS - A Calhoun Treasure, Life Close To The Earth
01-22-2026REMEMBERING: CALHOUN MUSIC ICON LINDA MCCUMBERS
01-22-2026MCCUMBERS FEATURED IN GOLDENSEAL
01-22-2026CALHOUN MUSIC MEN RATED NUMBER ONE - Parsons And McCumbers At West Virginia Folk Festival
01-22-2026McCUMBER'S FIDDLIN' WINS AT FOLK FESTIVAL - Eugene Parsons Is Third Banjo
01-21-2026JAMES HAUGHT RECALLS EARLY TIMES - Bowel Misery Inflicts Serious Pain
01-21-2026SIDNEY UNDERWOOD: FIELD DAY AT OLD CALHOUN HIGH - "Townies" Had A Rude Awakening
01-21-2026DAVID KIRBY'S PINE CRIK TALES - "Smells From The Kitchen"
01-21-2026STRANGE BANANA CAR, TOASTER CAR SPOTTED AT MT. ZION - On Journey Circling The World
01-21-2026HUMBLING HARD TIMES: WPA-NYA SAVED CALHOUN FAMILIES FROM STARVATION
01-21-2026SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - "The Last Farmers - A World Close To Home"
01-21-2026CAWTHON'S CATHARSIS - It Ain't Gambling; It's About Establishing Friendships
01-20-2026SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Brad Paisley Was A Skinny Kid With A Guitar
01-20-2026WHEN THE JAMES BOYS VISITED CLAY COUNTY - "They Rode Up And Watered Their Horses"
01-20-2026HISTORIC ANNAMORIAH - Early Photos Of Community, Recollection Of Big Cats And Bear
01-20-2026BIRDS NEST IN STRANGE PLACES
01-20-20262011: CALHOUN CONNECTED MAN CLIMBED MT. KILIMANJARO - Doug Maxwell Grandson Of Don Morris
01-20-2026REMEMBERING: DENVER GARRETSON WALKED THE WALK OF CIVILITY, DEDICATION AND WORK
01-20-2026EARLY GRANTSVILLE ORDINANCES PROHIBITED RIVER BATHING AND CURSING - Men Paid $1 Head Tax, $50 Adultry Fine
01-20-2026SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Frozen Dead On The Husk, No Matches To Be Found
01-19-2026YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ: LIFTING UP MARTIN LUTHER KING QUOTES
01-19-2026RETURN TO 'RACCOON RUN' AND 'DARKY FORK' - Ogden Descendents Visit Calhoun's Long Gone Black Communities
01-19-2026CAN WE JUDGE A PERSON BY THEIR OWN DEEDS, OR HATE THOSE NOT LIKE US? - Being The Blessed Man
01-19-2026 SECLUSION - Inspired Poetry By Calhoun Woman Touches Human Spirit
01-19-2026KING'S MESSAGE FOR AMERICA TODAY? - Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
01-18-2026LIFE AND TIMES OF CALHOUN COUNTRY BOY VIRGIL FORTNEY - Real Life Yellow Creek Yarns
01-18-2026EARLY WIRT COUNTY CALAMITIES
01-18-20262018:MCCORMICKS CAUGHT YARD SITTIN' ON A SUMMER DAY - A Faded Family Tradition
01-18-2026BIG OLE RATTLER KILLED ON LEADING CREEK
01-18-2026GRAY BARKER WAS MASTER HOAXER - Braxton Native Created "Men In Black"
01-18-2026MOMENTS IN TIME: Old 1885 Obituary Found in Ledger in 1969
01-17-2026EARL COMES HOME TO BETHLEHEM - Earl Hamilton 1960-2015
01-17-2026THE CALHOUN HILLS - "The Dreams Of My Childhood Memories Unfold"
01-17-2026GIANT KATIES RUN OAK FALLS FROM WIND
01-17-2026THE GREAT "SENG' SWINDLE OF 1893 - Hayseed Kalhouner Rogues Take The Rap
01-17-2026CALHOUN'S POOR FARM - There Was No Place To Go
01-17-20262003: COUNTY POOR FARM HAS SOME "RICHES" - Walter Emery Smith Drills A "Good Well"
01-17-2026FLASHBACK ARNOLDSBURG - Teachers At Hotel Meadows 1908
01-16-20262024: ANTIQUE FURNITURE RETURNED TO STUMP HOTEL
01-16-20262020: LADY LINDA MCCARTNEY HAS DIED - "Graciously Gave Her Time"
01-16-2026WELCOME TO AUNT NETTIE'S TEA - "Down The Rabbit Hole"
01-16-2026ONE THOUSAND CALHOUN CITIZENS LABORED ON DEPRESSION ERA PROGRAMS - Staving Off Destitution
01-16-2026SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - The Fault Is Not In The Stars
01-16-2026EARLY DAYS OF WIDEN AND DILLE - Given Recalls Early Clay County Days
01-16-2026EARLY CALHOUN PHONE COMPANIES - Independent Operations Covered Most Of County By 1900, Two Longs And A Short
01-16-20261898: WOMAN GOT 'HER IRISH UP' IN GRANTSVILLE
01-16-20261999: CALHOUN'S WANDERING EMU - The Entire Saga, Kangaroo Tale
01-15-20261909: CALHOUN WORKERS AT GODFREY CABOTS LAMP BLACK FACTORY
01-15-2026RITCHIE TROOPER KILLED THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO AFTER GUNFIRE - Officer Gunned Down Over Neighbor's Dispute
01-15-2026CALHOUN MONUMENT WAS ERECTED GOV. CECIL AND HOVAH HALL UNDERWOOD
01-15-20261927: GRANTSVILLE OUTLAWS POOL HALLS - The Devil's Tool
01-15-2026SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - "Ya Got Yur Ears On?"
01-15-2026UNKNOWN CALHOUN FACES - The Farris Barr Collection From 1905-1918 (No. 1)

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