West Virginia Writers Celebrate 40 Years of Literature Laura Jackson Roberts June 22, 2017 On the second weekend in June, a pack of strange and wonderful people descends upon the Cedar Lakes Conference Center in the green hills of Ripley, West Virginia. They’re artsy folk, young and old, with a...
Books Every West Virginian Should Read Emily Torbett December 15, 2016 1. Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam, Jr. A true memoir, Rocket Boys details the childhood experiences of NASA engineer Homer “Sonny” Hickam Jr. in his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia. In a poor mining...
Caridi Authors, Releases His First Children’s Book Steve Novotney November 4, 2016 They called it the “slow” reading group in the grade school Tony Caridi attended in Lockport, N.Y., because, in the late 1960s, teachers were permitted to make such references and...