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...
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...
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...
THE GRIFFITH FILES: ‘Older Gentlemen’ Recall Pennsylvania Station, 1907 Flood, 1948 Freedom Train VisitGerry Griffith June 23, 2018“Dominick,” called out the old man who sat atop the wooden playground structure where children spent warm weather afternoons spinning...
The Griffith Files: Wheeling’s ‘Summer of Love’Terry Griffith March 2, 2018It was the summer of ’67 and, musically, things had slowed down a bit in Wheeling. The British invasion had...
