They will be perfectly fine for many, many years. Beginning in the 1890s, there was a concerted effort to find and collect West Virginias remaining civil war battle flags. During that decade they collected these flags. At the time, they did not know how to preserve them. Some of them used chemicals that were detrimental to the flags. But for over six decades these flags set in dark storage. They did not see light at all until we could figure out how to conserve them, how to repair them, and how to put them in these climate controlled cases. So, they have been conserved. They have been restored as much as possible. What is left will be there for many generations to come. But to be beside a flag, to be in the presence of that object is to be in the presence of the past, because this is that tangible, real connection people can have to the past. All weekend, American History tv is featuring wheeling, West Virginia. The city was the first state capital of West Virginia after it seceded fro
WHEELING The second Thursday in November will be full of Christmas spirit in Wheeling. Multiple major holiday events will kick off that day, offering an unofficial open to the season. The first event is a visit to Wheeling Park from the tree that will stand in Washington D.C. as the United States Capitol Christmas […]