We Watch Forever Gerry Griffith March 2, 2017 They had a party at our prison last night and they thought we couldn’t see. This rotten stone hell where we walk in darkness forever is not as it was when I faced the hangman in 1932 or as it was when...
Ghosts of America’s Worst Industrial Disaster on West Virginia’s New River Gorge Gerry Griffith January 30, 2017 2 Comments Captain Ron’s long ponytail stood straight out in the wind as he gunned the jet boat and turned the wheel of the craft hard to the right, sending up a spray of New River water and a yelp from his energized...
The Mabel Files: Japan Casts the Die Gerry Griffith December 7, 2016 Wheeling’s Centre Market, and the shops nearby like Tom and Lizzie Minns’ Confectionary on Market Street, were at rest on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7, 1941, while the USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee...
“The Bunker” at the Greenbrier Gerry Griffith September 25, 2016 From Top Secret to Tourist Stop --"The Bunker" at the Greenbrier Between 1961 and 1992, if an enemy bomber looked like it was headed for the Nation’s Capital with intent to drop a nuclear device, all 435...
The Undeniable Fiestaware Gerry Griffith September 1, 2016 Neither a Radio Active Past Nor Changes in Taste Prevent Fiestaware from Becoming Iconic WV Plant is a Bargain-Hunter Magnet The letter he had just seen from the War Department in Washington was curt,...
