Betty’s 2017 Garden
Betty’s Garden Diary Revisited!
Preface
Greetings fellow Weelunk gardeners! This is a follow-up to the “Betty’s Garden Diary” series that my wife, Betty, and I published on Weelunk last year. Since we stopp...
The Early History and First Court of Ohio County
Earl’s Note: This is a written version of the Fort Henry Speaker Series program presented on April 27, 2017. A video of that program is available online at this web site. The PowerPoint presentation a...
driving route eighty-eight
in the space between
working and not
i lose myself
essing and squiggling
day and late
on eighty-eight--
a kind of asphalt
umbilical cord,
connecting dawn and sunset---
wending way
again today
...
The West Liberty Tanneries
When West Liberty was settled, the region had a lot of oak trees. In addition to supplying lumber for the building needs as the community grew, those oaks also provided a plentiful supply of oak bark to the two...
Do You Live in a Sears House? Are You Sure?
Do you live in a Sears or Montgomery Ward house? Was your house built from a kit that was purchased through a mail-order catalog? Are you sure? From 1909 to 1940, Sears Robuck & Co. Sold over 90,000 houses ...
Betty’s Garden Diary for July 2016
Welcome to Betty’s Garden Diary for July, 2016!
Betty's Garden on July 14, 2016
Things are going well in Betty’s garden. God has blessed us with plenty of timely rain showers, so things are growing li...
Betty’s Garden Diary for June 2016
Betty’s Garden Diary - June, 2016
Since June and July usually bring lots of dry weather, most of this issue of Betty’s Garden Diary will be devoted to water management and most of that discussion will be...
A Family Story: The Curtises of West Liberty
One of the old families of importance to the history of West Liberty and of America was the Curtis family. They were descendants of a Welsh gentleman named Sir James Curtis. In 1776, John Curtis joined Smallwoo...
A Seat of Frontier Justice: The Old West Liberty Courthouse
I recently spent the day in the little town of West Liberty. I have been fascinated by the history of the hilltop village since my undergraduate days at West Liberty University, but back then I had no idea just...
Storytelling: Court Day in West Liberty
by Earl Nicodemus
To the reader: I must preface this document by informing the reader that I am a storyteller rather than a historian. Until radio took over the storytelling role about 100 years ago, Americans...