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Recent News Updates:

02-09-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL: Travails Of "Primitive" Ambulance Service, Unafraid And Showing Up
02-09-2025DANIELS RUN NEWS 1902 - "Joseph Nailor Looking For Wife, James Starchers Talking Machine"
02-09-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Calhoun's Godlight, Green Hills Closing Tighter And Survival
02-09-2025REMEMBERING: JANICE MORGAN HALL CELEBRATING 100 YEARS - Great, Great, Great, Great Grand Daughter Of Morgan Morgan, WV's First Settler, Passes 2014
02-09-2025THIS OLE HOUSE - Siblings Clung To Little Kanawha River Dwelling
02-09-2025AROUND THE BEND: "IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD IT, YOU'D HEAR IT HERE" - Washburn Store Has Long History
02-09-2025BOB THE PARROT CLEARLY SPOKE "GUTTER TALK" - Life And Times Of Dudley Lutz
02-09-2025A MYSTERY: WHAT WAS THIS "THING?"
02-09-2025JUNIOR GODFREY GOT HIS MEDALS - 57 Years After W.W.II
Minnie Hamilton Health System
02-08-2025SAM DILLON DIED AFTER RUNNING OVER 90 - Historic Crummies Creek Family, "A Blessed Life"
02-08-2025AUNT NETTIE'S CONTRAPTION SCARED HER - "I Had To Go Sit Down"
02-08-2025MASTER MATH TEACHER PAUL STALNAKER REMEMBERED - Davis Eulogy Recalls "Geritol"
02-08-2025MACFARLAN'S FABLED RITCHIE MINES - From Fortune To Despair
02-08-2025EARLY DAYS - Milo Church Sunday School Class
02-08-20252001 FLASHBACK: SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER - A Barnes Run Baptismal
02-07-2025HUR CHICKEN COOP GETS FINE ART WORK
02-07-2025"CISCO" JACKSON'S RITCHIE COUNTY MANOR HOUSE - Civil War Era Dwelling, A Mover And Shaker
02-07-20251800s: OLD WILD AND WOOLY NEWS GILMER COUNTY WV
02-07-20251907: COTTRELL VANISHED INTO THIN AIR, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN
02-07-2025MOON OVER ANNAMORIAH
02-07-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Grandpa Gunned Down Nasty Bedbugs
02-07-2025GOV. CECIL UNDERWOOD GOES A COURT'IN - Gets Shotgun Directions In Calhoun's Backwoods
02-06-2025DANIELS RUN NEWS 1901 - "Crawford Out For Matrimony," Typhoid Fever Rampant
02-06-2025TWISTED VINES USE CHOKE-HOLD
02-06-2025THIS OLE HOUSE: STATELY 1894 BENNETT HOUSE ON RUSSETT ROAD - Nelson Bennett Helped Establish Glenville College
02-06-2025COUNTY'S OLDEST STANDING BIRDHOUSE ON BARNES RUN
02-06-2025WEST FORK FIRE CLAIMS FIVE LIVES IN 1916
02-06-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Uncle Eddie's Sipping Life, Waking The Sleeping Tiger
02-06-2025STAFFORD AFFLICTED THE COMFORTABLE - Mountain State Corruption, Outright Stealing
02-06-2025GREAT CALHOUN HIGH FOOTBALL OF THE 1950s
02-06-2025PHOTO TOUR OF OLD CALHOUN HOUSES - Hard Scrabble And "Finer" Dwellings Of Early 1900s
02-05-20252023: RALPH CARPENTER NOT A BACK-TO-LANDER - He Never Left The Sod, Sap'in Maple Syrup
02-05-2025RUSH RUN BAPTIST CHURCH HOLDING FORTH 133 YEARS
02-05-2025SIDNEY UNDERWOOD: THE GOLD DUST TWINS
02-05-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL: "HUMAN FLY" CLIMBED OLE CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL TOWERS
02-05-2025DAVID KIRBY'S PINE CRIK TALES - Elsworth Pulls His Tooth, "I Can Whip Any SOB"
02-05-2025COME ON DOWN TO THE ORMA THEATER - Appearing "Garrett Snuff Variety Gang"
02-05-20252006:OLD REBEL SOLDIER HONORED AT MINNORA - Pvt. William A. Bailey (1839-1910)
02-05-2025CAWTHON'S CATHARSIS - Arley Cleeter Asks You to Think About It
02-04-2025WE HONOR AND REMEMBER THE MCCUNE BOYS
02-04-20252011: HISTORIC MCCUNE CABIN HAS NEW LIFE - Oldest Restored Structure In County, 'If The House Could Talk'
02-04-20252009: MCCUNE HOMESTEAD BEING RESTORED - A Mighty Presence On Crooked Run
02-04-2025NORV COULD EXPLAIN THE NATIONAL CRISIS - "People Lived The Way They Were Supposed To"
02-04-2025NORV DIED WITH HIS BOOTS ON YESTERDAY - "If I Live Long Enough"
02-04-2025 MC CUNE "BOY" PASSES ON - Calhoun Farmer: Bruce McCune 1916-2006
02-04-2025HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: THE COUNTRY LIFE - Chet Dowell's Photos, Visiting Bruce And Norville
02-04-2025THE WISDOM OF THE OLD WAYS - A Visit with the McCune Brothers
02-04-2025MOST WERE KILLED IN ACTION - Norville McCune Lives Up Orma Way
02-04-2025MCCUNE "BOYS" RECALL OLE PETER - Bruce And Norville Remember
02-03-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Philandering Undertaker Was "Smart Dude"
02-03-20252019: THE REMARKABLE LIFE AND TIMES OF 'KITTY' WILSON HAVE ENDED - "I Did It Because It Needed To Be Done"
02-03-2025CALHOUN'S 'KITTY' WILSON WAS HONORED BY LK SCOUTS ONE MORE TIME - An Accomplished Life
02-03-2025GUNS, GOD AND GLORY - Fracas At Hur Council For Social Improvement And Upward Mobility, Mayor Nitz And Little Billy Braveheart Tangle
02-03-2025A RETURN TO CALHOUN'S FASCINATING 'CAVES' - Never Mind Snakes, Bats And Spiders
02-03-2025LONG CLOSED ST. PAUL CHURCH SHINES ON PINE CREEK HILL - The Faithful Repose Nearby
02-03-2025 A DANGEROUS CHASE DOWN RAGING LK FLOOD WATERS - Memorable 1967 Flood
02-03-2025ETHEL RADER'S RIVER LIFE - "I Grew Up In Hard Times"
02-02-2025TOWN OF GRANTSVILLE, YEAR OF OUR LORD 2017 - High Sky Photos By Quentin Murphy
02-02-20252012: WHITE PINE 'OLD SCHOOL' REUNION RECALLED SIMPLER TIMES
02-02-2025REMEMBERING LARRY HARLESS: OFTEN HIS SUN DID NOT SHINE - "Comforting The Afflicted"
02-02-2025PUFF PUFF, CHUG CHUG, CHOO CHOO - The Little Kanawha Railroad That Never Made It (Part One)
02-02-2025PUFF PUFF, CHUG CHUG, CHOO CHOO - Millions Lost In LK Railroad Collapse(Part Two)
02-02-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - "Some People Ain't Made For Small Town Life," Ordinary Fodder For Comfort
02-02-2025UNKNOWN CALHOUN FACES - The Farris Barr Collection 1905-1918 (No.16)
02-01-2025SHOULD WE PAPER OVER THE NANCY HART STORY?
02-01-2025MORE ON THE TEENAGE TERRORIST OF ROANE COUNTY - Civil War Adventures Nancy Hart
02-01-2025 TREACHEROUS NANCY HART BROUGHT TO LIFE BY GRAHAME'S COMIC STRIP
02-01-2025CASEY HARRIS HILL DANCES ON NANCY HART'S LEGENDARY "DANCING ROCK"
02-01-2025BLOOD-LETTER NANCY HART WENT TO HER MAKER 123 YEARS AGO - A Moccasin Ranger, Hart Once Lived In West Fork Valley
02-01-2025CLAY CO. MOUNTAIN MID-WIFE DELIVERED OVER 3,000 BABIES
02-01-2025WILL THE REAL NANCY HART COME FORTH
02-01-2025"A MATCH MADE IN HELL" - Nancy Hart's Renegade Life
01-31-2025SUNNY CAL JOURNAL: POWER OF CULTS, DE-PROGRAMMING AND POWERFUL FRIENDSHIPS
01-31-20251909: ANDY MACE: Calhoun County's Oldest Man Still Chews His Tobacco At 96 - Killed 75 Deer One Winter
01-31-20251885 QUARREL OVER WIRT COUNTY COW ENDS IN DEATH
01-31-2025REMEMBERING CALHOUN'S RAYMOND SCHOOLCRAFT (1937-2015) - Cowboy Dancer
01-31-2025GLORIOUS RIVER LIFE ALONG THE LITTLE KANAWHA - A Faded History Recorded By Early Photographers
01-31-2025HERR RESTORES HISTORIC ARNOLD LOG HOUSE - "Best Thing, I Like My Neighbors"
01-31-2025MORE MOUNTAIN TALK - Courtesy Of Tom Knotts
01-31-2025MACFARLAN WAS A ROUGH AND TUMBLE VILLAGE - Despite Serious History, Most Will Remember The Roadhouses
01-30-20252025: WE REMEMBER AND HONOR LESTER MCCUMBERS AND THE MCUMBERS MUSIC MAKERS
01-30-2025HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: THE MCCUMBERS COMETH - Pioneer Spirit Brought Hard Work And Mountain Music To Calhoun (Part Two)
01-30-2025HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: THE MCCUMBERS COMETH - Pioneer Spirit Brought Hard Work And Mountain Music To Calhoun County (Part 1)
01-30-2025CALHOUN FIDDLER LESTER MCCUMBERS RECALLED LEARNING MOUNTAIN MUSIC
01-30-2025FLASHBACK 1999: NY TIMES ARTICLE ON CALHOUN MUSIC MAKERS MCCUMBERS AND KRACK
01-30-2025HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: REMEMBERING: MUSIC ICON "PAPA FIDDLE" LESTER MCCUMBERS - "He Was Real, Loved Music"
01-30-20252015: CALHOUN MUSIC ICON LESTER MCCUMBERS PASSES AT 93 - "I've Lived A Simple Life, Close To The Earth, An Honest Record"
01-30-2025CALHOUN'S MOUNTAIN MUSIC ICON LESTER MCCUMBERS TEACHING AT WV STRING BAND FEST
01-30-2025LESTER MCCUMBERS - A Calhoun Treasure, Life Close To The Earth
01-30-2025CALHOUN MUSIC MEN RATED NUMBER ONE - Parsons And McCumbers At West Virginia Folk Festival
01-30-2025McCUMBER'S FIDDLIN' WINS AT FOLK FESTIVAL - Eugene Parsons Is Third Banjo

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