2017 Top Ten: Stories By You LeeRoy December 31, 2017 Today we continue the year in review with a shout out to our readers, followers, advocates, investors, advertisers and all-around-Weelunkers. Here are the Top Ten stories of the year from YOU, our communi...
Columbus Day Gerry Griffith October 9, 2017 Folks in Wheeling, like folks in hundreds of towns and communities across America, celebrate Monday as Columbus Day. But, should they? Like so many things that were drilled into us in childhood, the Christopher...
The Griffith Files: A Wheeling Delivery Boy in the 1960s Gerry Griffith August 11, 2017 6 Dodging Snippy Dogs and Dealing with Cranky Doltish Husbands: a Wheeling Delivery Boy in the 1960s Even with my limp, I could always outrun a yappy little dog like a Chihuahua or a Pug, and a Dachs...
The Griffith Files: A Gift of Music From an Ohio River Barge Gerry Griffith July 1, 2017 5 An Old Ohio River Barge Boat Cook Brings a Musical Gift of a Lifetime to a Fledging Wheeling Musician named Griffith She was a feisty old river woman who we called Aunt Ruth even though she was no relation. ...
Griffith Files: Grandma’s Rocker-A Baby Boomer’s Downsizing Dilemma Gerry Griffith May 27, 2017 8 They are taking away my grandma’s rocking chair tomorrow and it feels like an old friend I’ve known all my life is going away to live with strangers. The decision to give it up was a tormenting struggle invo...
The Griffith Files: Kruger Street School Sparks Good Memories and One Nightmare Gerry Griffith April 10, 2017 2 In a dusty cardboard box that sits on a basement shelf in my house, there is a plain-looking red brick. It is lacquered and polished with a simple little gold plastic plate on its top that reads, “Kruger Street...
The Griffith Files: A Wheeling Boy’s Curiosity Leads to a Life in Music Gerry Griffith February 4, 2017 2 In the late 1950s, my brother, Terry, often found time on his hands to explore the dusty back rooms and storage closets of long-abandoned but safe South and Center Wheeling storefronts. On one of thos...
The Griffith Files: Remembering John F. Kennedy’s 1962 Visit to Wheeling Gerry Griffith November 22, 2016 1 Author’s note: As promised more than a year ago when I began this series, the stories have progressed beyond the memories and stories of my Mother, Mabel, and are now the product of my own experiences. Thus, th...
