WEEREAD: If You Keep Making That Shame FaceMakayla Carney March 25, 2024C.J. Farnsworth has spent her life steeped in words. With more than twenty years as an English literature educator, she’s...
WEEREAD – Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in AppalachiaAnna Cipoletti November 28, 2022In Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia, author and state folklorist Emily Hilliard explores West Virginian...
WEEREAD: Colored People: A MemoirAnna Cipoletti February 22, 2022Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a man known by multiple titles and accolades but is perhaps best known as a...
QUIZ: What West Virginia Book Are You?Anna Cipoletti December 22, 2021Take this quiz to determine which WV-centric book is the right fit for you, your Secret Santa, or one of those hard-to-buy-for relatives.
WEEREAD: Mountaineers are Always FreeAnna Cipoletti June 18, 2021On Sunday, June 20, West Virginia will celebrate the anniversary of its statehood. With its official motto “Montani Semper Liberi”...
WEEREAD: Hippie HomesteadersAnna Cipoletti June 8, 2021A writer and sculptor born in Huntington, Carter Taylor Seaton has long been a part of the arts and crafts...
WEEREAD: Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother’s DayAnna Cipoletti May 8, 2021On May 8, 1914, the United States Congress officially designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day and the...
WEEREAD: At Home in the Heart of AppalachiaAnna Cipoletti January 25, 2021A poignant memoir of family and place, At Home in the Heart of Appalachia’s opening chapter begins with author John...
WEEREAD: Holiday Reading for ChildrenAnna Cipoletti December 21, 2020A Day for Skating by Sarah Sullivan Written in simple rhyming couplets with no more than two lines to a...
WEEREAD: ShinerAnna Cipoletti December 2, 2020In her stunning debut novel Shiner, Amy Jo Burns explores friendship and grief in the mountains of West Virginia. Teenaged...
WEEREAD: The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost TalesAnna Cipoletti October 31, 2020Let’s face it: Halloween is going to look different this year. Maybe you’re forgoing your annual costume party or your...
Recommended Reading: WV Books for Middle School and Young Adult ReadersAnna Cipoletti October 13, 2020As the kids settle into the new school year, check out these books to keep their minds active and explore...
Recommended Reading: WV Books for KidsAnna Cipoletti October 6, 2020As the kids settle into the new school year, check out these books to keep their minds active and explore...
WEEREAD: The Clarinet PolkaEllen Brafford McCroskey June 13, 2020Author Keith Maillard was born right here in Wheeling in 1942, where he lived until eventually moving to Canada in...
WEEREAD: Quiet DellStacey Miller Sacco May 23, 2020A Small West Virginia Town Hides a Big Secret By 1931, the Great Depression had most of the nation in...
WHAT WEE ARE READINGWheeling Heritage Media May 9, 2020Some of us have more downtime now than we did before we began to shelter in place during the pandemic....
WEEREAD: Murder Never DiesStacey Miller Sacco April 4, 2020When the Friendly City Turned Rogue With 250 years of history, Wheeling’s story isn’t only innovation, triumphs and celebrations. Just...
W.Va.’s Poet Laureate A Student Of LifeSteve Novotney October 22, 2016This Poet Laureate’s pace when he’s publicly reading his work is sometimes somewhat swift and steamed, but when Marc Harshman...
Books That Every West Virginian Should ReadEmily Torbett December 11, 20151. Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam, Jr. A true memoir, Rocket Boys details the childhood experiences of NASA engineer...
Thornton Clicking & Collecting Wheeling HistorySteve Novotney October 17, 2015Jim Thornton misses the dark room. It was his personal red-light district, where the developer and fixer in the dishes...
