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GIDDY UP â Project-oriented Savannah Schroll Guz, executive director/president of the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center at 3149 Main St., Weirton, is setting her sights on restoring this Hollywood Junior Merry-Go-Round carousel that used to be a childhood delight for youngsters going shoe shopping with their parents at Marlinnâs Shoe Store. An autumn completion date and unveiling are planned. For information or to contribute, call the museum at (304) 224-1909. Guz is holding a template she is working on to restore the original linework to each pony. Janice Kiaski
WEIRTON A piece of nostalgia from the city’s history is on the giddy-up track to being restored this year at the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center at 3149 Main St.
CRAIG HOWELL
The sun has been shining brighter the last few days, and birdsong has been filling the air more frequently. The grass has been getting greener.
We’re making our way out of the winter doldrums, and spring is fast approaching.
This is my favorite time of year, and not just because it means my birthday is coming. Spring is a time of rebirth and hope in our yearly cycle of nature. It’s a reminder of life and light after the dreary, snow-covered days of the last few months.
Flowers bloom, leaves reappear on the trees, things begin to grow. Life happens.
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GIDDY UP Project-oriented Savannah Schroll Guz, executive director/president of the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center at 3149 Main St., Weirton, is setting her sights on restoring this Hollywood Junior Merry-Go-Round carousel that used to be a childhood delight for youngsters going shoe shopping with their parents at Marlinn’s Shoe Store. An autumn completion date and unveiling are planned. For information or to contribute, call the museum at (304) 224-1909. Schroll Guz is holding a template she is working on to restore the original linework to each pony. Janice Kiaski
WEIRTON A piece of nostalgia from the city’s history is on the giddy-up track to being restored this year at the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center at 3149 Main St.
WEIRTON Artist Jaci Rice is a little “rusty” at her work.
And that’s brought the Weirton woman personal and professional validation, specifically as one awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts for 2020.
Rice was one of five artists selected from around West Virginia whose original works part of her #RustBeltBeauty series were showcased at Taylor Books in Charleston from Oct. 15 through mid-November.
A link to the group show is available at https://tamarackfoundation.org/eaf2020exhibit./
The #RustBeltBeauty series, her website artist statement notes in part, challenges viewers “to discover aspects of beauty hidden in industrial and post-industrial areas like my hometown of Weirton, the monolith of West Virginia’s crumbling Rust Belt. Without stopping to observe the play of light and shadow, the hard juxtaposition of steel against the Ohio Valley hill, or the layers of color that decades of rust and soot have wrought, the full