SHEPHERDSTOWN After 37 years of teaching at Shepherd University, Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt has decided it is time to retire from her positions as the Shepherd
Imagine trees more than 100 feet tall stretching across the skyline of Appalachia; families resting in the shade down below or collecting husks bursting at the seam with chestnuts.
A Shepherd University student is leading a citizen science project that aims to repopulate American chestnut trees in Appalachia. American chestnut populations have been threatened for decades by an infectious disease called chestnut blight.
SHEPHERDSTOWN—Shepherd University’s Center for Appalachian Studies and Communities announces that the West Virginia Fiction Competition is now accepting 2024 submissions. The deadline is May 1. Award-winning writer and West Virginia
SHEPHERDSTOWN Last month, award-winning author Crystal Wilkinson made a stop at the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History & Education on her natio