We’ve all been there. You and your college classmate are both in love with girls to whom you want to propose before they’re dragged off by their family to Scot...
Grover’s Corners is every small town in early 20th-century America. It has a doctor and a blacksmith and a small-town newspaper and a milk man, complete with a...
It’s hard to imagine anyone in the western world hasn’t at least heard of the Red Cross. They’re the blood drive people, right? While it is true that they provide more than 40% of blood products in this country, they do much more than collect and di...
The Miss Firecracker Contest is the latest production by The Actors Guild of Parkersburg
Carnelle Scott has had a rough life. When her mother died,
her fath...
Theater fans in the Mid-Ohio Valley are in for a treat in that they’ll have an opportunity to see performances of three brand-new shows written by local playwr...
The house lights go down. They move to their seats. The stage lights blaze. And there they are—five women. Each beautiful in her own way. Each unique. And yet, in these five women, by the end of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, the audience meets all wo...
Towards the end of the previous academic year, Clutch MOV examined how teachers were attempting to keep students engaged during the first months of the pandemi...
It’s been true for decades, if not centuries, practically becoming a rite of passage. College friends promise to stay in touch after graduation, most knowing d...
It’s easy to miss. In fact, if you aren’t looking for it—maybe even if you are—you could walk right past it and not even realize. It’s not on what passes in downtown Parkersburg for restaurant row, so you can pass within half a block of it and not e...
Joe Stephens is the author of The Shalan Adventures, starring Harry and Dee Shalan. While he's not writing stories of daring-do, he's an award-winning high school English teacher. He's also a big fan of anything nerd, especially superhero.
