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THE GRIFFITH FILES: When Wheeling Put On a Big Show to Celebrate Its Bicentennial

September 7, 2019

Fifty years ago, I was a defender of Wheeling’s Fort Henry in the last battle of the Revolutionary War; a Union soldier guarding a prisoner of war camp during America’s Civil War; one of a dozen or so jubilant ...

THE GRIFFITH FILES: Growing Up on Big Wheeling Creek in Elm Grove

Gerry Griffith

July 27, 2019

"Stay away from the creek.” ... In the Elm Grove neighborhoods along Big Wheeling Creek in the early 1960s, no parental directive was ignored more often. The wide, often-muddy tributary with its rocks, crawd...

THE GRIFFITH FILES: How Mom, Zane Gray, the Beverly Hillbillies and the Revolutionary War Inspired a Lifetime of Reading

Gerry Griffith

June 29, 2019

I was a child television junky in 1963, well-versed in the classics like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Car 54: Where Are You?, Ben Casey, The Red Skelton Show, Hawaiian Eye, Wagon Train, Dr. Kildare, Rawhide, Route 66, th...

THE GRIFFITH FILES: ‘Older Gentlemen’ Recall Pennsylvania Station, 1907 Flood, 1948 Freedom Train Visit

Gerry Griffith

June 23, 2018

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“Dominick,” called out the old man who sat atop the wooden playground structure where children spent warm weather afternoons spinning a toy steering wheel and pretending to be riverboat pilots. “I haven’t seen ...

The Griffith Files: Wheeling’s ‘Summer of Love’

Terry Griffith

March 2, 2018

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It was the summer of ’67 and, musically, things had slowed down a bit in Wheeling. The British invasion had spurred guitar sales, but that craze was starting to wane. You know that feeling when things seem to s...

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