CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at wvencyclopedia.org.
Kentucky Pull Candy Harder Than It Looks
You can find recipes for pull candy online. But be prepared to fail, if you ve never made it before. It s hard to get it right. But it s amazingly soft and creamy to eat.
Inside Appalachia Folkways Reporter Zack Harold caught up with a man who s a confectionary master.
Zack Harold Joe Parcell of Winfield, West Virginia, won’t even attempt making candy unless the thermometer is below 50 degrees due to the difficult process.
Crystal Wilkinson Named Kentucky’s ‘21-’22 Poet Laureate
Crystal Wilkinson is the first Black woman in Kentucky to hold the title of Poet Laureate. Wilkinson is an associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Over her career, Wilkinson has focused much of her writing on Black women and their experiences in Appalachia.
Explore the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve an adventure-seeker s paradise
Explore Outdoors: Nation s newest national park just a 4.5 hour drive from Cincinnati Share Updated: 5:35 PM EDT Apr 20, 2021 WLWT Digital Staff
Explore Outdoors: Nation s newest national park just a 4.5 hour drive from Cincinnati Share Updated: 5:35 PM EDT Apr 20, 2021
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Explore Outdoors: Nation s newest national park just a 4.5 hour drive from Cincinnati Share Updated: 5:35 PM EDT Apr 20, 2021 WLWT Digital Staff WLWT Digital Staff Looking for an easy weekend trip? The nation s 63rd national park is just a 4.5 hour drive from Cincinnati.Included in the year-end spending package hammered out by Congress in December was legislation that would redesignate the New River Gorge National River as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.Located in southern Wes
Shoe, cellphone at the base of the cliff had been planted by the couple, police said. (Representational)
Last May, Rodney Wheeler dialed 911 with a frantic plea for help: His wife had just plunged hundreds of feet over a steep cliff in a West Virginia national park.
Authorities quickly launched a massive search for Julie Wheeler, 44. For days, hundreds of volunteers, police, and professional rescuers trekked along the base of the New River where her husband said she d fallen, aided by helicopters and rescue dogs.
But Julie Wheeler had never gone missing. Three days after she supposedly fell off a cliff, authorities found her hiding inside a closet in the couple s Beaver, W.Va. home.