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West Virginia’s State Symbols
What do the rhododendron, cardinal, sugar maple and black bear have in common? The answer is that they are West Virginia's state symbols and school students helped to choose them! That's right; children played a part in selecting each one. In 1901,
- Happy Mother’s Day to Ewe
- Mom’s Pecan Bars
- Taking Photos That Tell a Story
- Spring Chicken Salad Casserole
- Lifelong Learning
- Old Fashioned Cornmeal Scrapple
- An Ode to Hands
RURAL WEST VIRGINIA
Secret Hiding Place
I remember well my first secret hiding place; it was in the woods, surrounded by bushes and not visible to anyone on the path nearby. A perfect place to hide. Perfect, except that soon after I turned five, our growing
- Barbour County Buried Treasure
- Hill Country Final Passages
- Spring Chickens
- West Virginia: Celebrating 150 Years
- The Morris Massacre and the Peggy Apple
- The Fine Art of Trading
- Screaming Like A Banshee
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NATURE / OUTDOORS
Raised Bed Gardening – Not For Everyone
Raised bed gardening has become all the rage. It is craft gardening that lets you show off your creative side and they're pretty easy to put together. To start a raised bed garden, you simply build a cute rectangle, rhombus or
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- Gardening: The Best Kind of Therapy
- Seed Catalogs: Print vs. Digital
- Gardening: Every Year is a Learning Year
- The Chipmunk Syndrome
BODY / SPIRIT
Medicinal Properties of Wild Geranium
Wild Geranium also called Spotted Geranium, or Crane's Bill is a perennial that grows from one to three feet tall. It has palm shaped leaves in a basal rosette pattern, that is hairy, and irregularly cleft; paired; and the
- Homeopathy: The Natural Health Care System
- Ten Wellness Essentials for Health & Healing
- Stew: From the Corners of the Earth to Your Bowl
- Keeping Your Immune System Healthy
- How to Cope with the Winter Blues – Naturally
- Common Basswood – American Linden (Tilia Americana)
- The Lost Formality of Gratitude & Thanks
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Caution! God at Work
Heartache and sorrow are never in short supply. Turn on the news or scroll through a few Facebook posts and you’ll see every shape and kind from local, national to world levels. Some of them created by nature, others self-inflicted,












