AS I SEE IT: Along Party LinesEllen Brafford McCroskey February 1, 2020here were two types of girls in the ’70s — those who had their very own telephones in their bedrooms,...
Out of the Ashes: Wheeling’s Ziegenfelder Company Stronger Than EverKelly Strautmann January 31, 2020anuary 31, 2019. It was a bitterly cold winter day, with highs reaching only 11 degrees. Most people in Wheeling...
DOWNTOWN LIVING: The Writing on the Wall at Boury Lofts Was a Good SignPhyllis Sigal January 29, 2020Editor’s note: While downtown Wheeling living has always been a thing, it seems as if there are more apartments than...
Wheeling Around: The Rise and Fall of the Historic Island Roller RinkEllen Brafford McCroskey January 22, 2020Writer’s Note: In recent years, the Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack used the former Wheeling Roller Rink as a storage facility. On...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: The Alpha and the OmegaBill Hogan January 18, 2020Share your memories of Ye Olde Alpha with Weelunk.
Alpha Moose on the MovePhyllis Sigal January 15, 2020he trickiest part was getting the two huge moose heads out of the door. But long-time Ye Olde Alpha cooks...
Held Together by Stories: A Special Lunch With Books Remembers OVMCKelly Strautmann January 11, 2020was born there. I graduated from there. My children were born there. These statements were heard more than once at...
The History of the West Virginia Hot DogLaura Jackson Roberts January 10, 2020I just ate my first West Virginia Hot Dog yesterday down at Tito’s Sloppy Doggs. In the past, my relationship...
DOWNTOWN LIVING: Church Bells Get Her to Work on TimePhyllis Sigal January 8, 2020Editor’s note: While downtown Wheeling living has always been a thing, it seems as if there are more apartments than...
EXTREME ELEVATORS: Wheeling Has Its Ups and Downs (Part 2)Ellen Brafford McCroskey January 7, 2020Editor’s note: Gone are the days when elevator operators called out “Going up,” but some interesting elevators still exist in...
EXTREME ELEVATORS: Wheeling Has Its Ups and Downs (Part 1)Ellen Brafford McCroskey January 6, 2020Editor’s note: Gone are the days when elevator operators called out “Going up,” but some interesting elevators exist in Wheeling...
OLD CHURCHES, NEW LIFE (Part 2): Buildings Are Real GemsAlex Panas December 31, 2019Writer’s note: When thinking of Wheeling’s scenery, it’s hard to turn a corner without marveling at one of the city’s...
OLD CHURCHES, NEW LIFE (Part 1): Framed for the ArtsAlex Panas December 30, 2019Writer’s note: When thinking of Wheeling’s scenery, it’s hard to turn a corner without marveling at one of the city’s...
ROBERTS RUMINATES: Traditions, Toilets and TrickeryLaura Jackson Roberts December 25, 2019o matter what holiday we celebrate, our yearly traditions anchor us. They keep us grounded in times of joy and...
‘Close-Knit’ Family Continues Haddad’s Holiday TraditionPhyllis Sigal December 24, 2019usan Haddad didn’t realize how “close-knit” her family was — until last year when she discovered that a decades-long Christmas...
HIDDEN GEMS: A Tale of Two ChapelsNora Edinger December 23, 2019Editor’s note: Today’s post on two gem-like chapels launches a new occasional series on lovely but lesser-known facets of Wheeling’s...
B.E. Taylor Christmas Star Shines OnBetsy Bethel-McFarland December 18, 2019he first time I talked to B.E. Taylor, I was a young reporter at The Times Leader. I was assigned...
Wrapping Up Ho-Ho-Home for the HolidaysNora Edinger December 16, 2019Editor’s note: Weelunk updates a story we shared four years ago about a business that ships various tastes of Wheeling...
At Rest: OVMC Nurse-Training Skeleton MemorializedNora Edinger November 20, 2019Editor’s note: In late October, Weelunk posted a story by Kelly Strautmann that gave an in-depth look at how this...
WLU’s Rare Book Returns Home Christina Fisanick November 11, 2019e stood around the podium topped with a glass case like mythical giants peering down at tiny humans, and for...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: Peace Corps in East Wheeling?Bill Hogan November 9, 2019his is a tough one to get started. There are so many people involved from not only different backgrounds but...
Legendary Barber Recalls 50 Years of Work in WheelingLaura Jackson Roberts November 8, 2019alph Tomlinson was 94 years old when he cut his last head of hair on July 6, 2018. For 50...
Echoes … Of Life on Top of Violet HillAnne Hazlett Foreman October 26, 2019Editor’s note: Last week, Anne Hazlett Foreman shared Echoes … Of Life Below Violet Hill. Today, we read about life...
Handled With Dignity: Putting the Past to RestKelly Strautmann October 25, 2019t took a village to honor an anonymous young girl’s skeletal remains retrieved from the now-closed Ohio Valley Medical Center....
ECHOES … Of Life Below Violet HillAnne Hazlett Foreman October 19, 2019ong before my family moved to the brown stucco house at the top of Chicken Neck Hill overlooking Elm Run,...
AS I SEE IT: Reading — Soul Food for the Heart and MindEllen Brafford McCroskey September 14, 2019“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It...
THE GRIFFITH FILES: When Wheeling Put On a Big Show to Celebrate Its BicentennialGerry Griffith September 7, 2019ifty years ago, I was a defender of Wheeling’s Fort Henry in the last battle of the Revolutionary War; a...
ECHOES … Of That First Day at the Mount — and BeyondAnne Hazlett Foreman August 31, 2019t is said that moments of trauma or great joy are etched in our minds forever and, like Post Traumatic...
Celebrating the Musical Women of Coal Country: Karen Collins, Elaine Purkey Remember Hazel DickensSeán Duffy August 26, 2019he Ohio County Public Library and the WALS Foundation will celebrate Reuther-Pollack Labor Heritage Week through the music of two...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: Poppa’s One, Two, ThreeBill Hogan August 24, 2019riving through Wheeling Park, I noticed a sign — “Bandstand” — and followed it to the top of the hill....
Wheeling Heritage Media Launches Podcast on Wheeling BrewerWeelunk Staff August 21, 2019urder (maybe). Philanthropy. Prostitution. Industrialization. Corruption. All these words are synonymous with Wheeling brewer Henry Schmulbach. And Wheeling Heritage is...
Exley Remembers (sort of) Three Days of Craziness on Max Yasgur’s FarmFred Connors August 13, 2019heeling resident R. Banford Exley has sporadic memories of a raucous music festival he attended 50 years ago on a...
Experience Wheeling’s Rowdy Past at the Francis Pier-Pint Brew-Off: Prohibition EditionLaura Jackson Roberts August 12, 2019ccording to local historian Sean Duffy, history and beer go together naturally. Luckily for lovers of Wheeling and ale, it’s...
People’s University to Explore Wheeling’s Labor HistoryProvided August 2, 2019Wheeling was a hotbed of unionism throughout its industrial period. In observation of the 250th anniversary of Wheeling’s founding, People’s...
Jewish Community Celebrates 170 Years of WorshipChristina Fisanick July 31, 2019ollowing the second wave of Jewish migration to the United States during the 1840s-80s, the early Jewish community in West...
WISH YOU WERE HERE: The Robert Schramm Collection of Historic Postcards (Part 1)Earl Nicodemus July 28, 2019Writer’s note: This is the first of a short series of Weelunk pictorials from the collection of retired West Liberty...
THE GRIFFITH FILES: Growing Up on Big Wheeling Creek in Elm GroveGerry Griffith July 27, 2019tay away from the creek.” … In the Elm Grove neighborhoods along Big Wheeling Creek in the early 1960s, no...
For the Love of Bicycling: Then and NowJeanne Finstein July 24, 2019icyclists in the Ohio Valley enjoy myriad recreational opportunities, from scenic bike trails to winding country roads beyond the city....
AS I SEE IT: Mourning the Loss of My JITH TraditionsEllen Brafford McCroskey July 21, 2019Editor’s note: Here in the Ohio Valley, the third weekend in July has meant an annual pilgrimage to Jamboree In...
Those Were the Days: Veteran Broadcaster Shares Jamboree MemoriesEllen Brafford McCroskey July 20, 2019Editor’s note: Here in the Ohio Valley, the third weekend in July has meant an annual pilgrimage to Jamboree In...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: First Footprints on the Moon — 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11Robert E. Strong July 20, 2019or untold generations, human beings had looked at the moon and wondered … What was it? Was it a God?...
Unexpected to Unbelievable: A Jamboree Love StoryEllen Brafford McCroskey July 19, 2019Editor’s note: Here in the Ohio Valley, the third weekend in July has meant an annual pilgrimage to Jamboree In...
The ‘Hills’ Hold His HeartEllen Brafford McCroskey July 18, 2019Editor’s note: Here in the Ohio Valley, the third weekend in July has meant an annual pilgrimage to Jamboree In...
Harshman’s Poem Celebrates ‘Wheeling at 250’Marc Harshman July 9, 2019Editor’s note: “Wheeling at 250” was commissioned by the Wheeling 250 committee. The poem, written by Marc Harshman, West Virginia’s...
Cracks, Whizzes and Cheers: Eight Decades of American Legion BaseballNick Musgrave July 5, 2019efore the advent of television, Wheeling families found entertainment among the sounds of cracks, whizzes and cheers of the local...
Weelunk Reader From Croatia Wins Haiku ContestPhyllis Sigal July 3, 2019ever in 250 years, has Goran Gatalica set foot in Wheeling, West Virginia. But this year’s haiku contest winner —...
THE GRIFFITH FILES: How Mom, Zane Gray, the Beverly Hillbillies and the Revolutionary War Inspired a Lifetime of ReadingGerry Griffith June 29, 2019was a child television junky in 1963, well-versed in the classics like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Car 54: Where Are You?, Ben...
Mounds of Learning Opportunities at Grave Creek Mound Archaeological ComplexKelly Strautmann June 28, 2019ou pay homage to it every time you say the name of its hometown. It’s one of the largest Adena...
ECHOES … Of Guns and Rose — Tales of Summer Vacations Long AgoAnne Hazlett Foreman June 22, 2019here is no place hotter in August than Vicksburg, Mississippi. It was just one of many of our destinations during...
Celebrating Juneteenth in WheelingChristina Fisanick June 18, 2019any Americans probably believe that once President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 that all slaves were set free...
