Winter has a funny way of bringing things into focus. The cold vacates all manner of bird and drives summer’s cicadas below ground. The snow mutes all save the...
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be
- From “My November Guest”, by Robert Frost
The wind ...
Most sources place the genesis of the American oil industry in Titusville, PA in 1859 when Edwin L Drake, a New York businessman, successfully used a drilling rig to strike oil. The Drake Well was not the first oil-producing well in America; however,...
November 2nd, 1966. It is a commute driven a thousand times before. Woody Derenberger, a Mineral Wells resident and local salesman, heads southbound on I-77 fro...
With virtually pitch-perfect musicianship and an ever-growing online following, Brock Davisson has grown from small-town musician to what one could legitimately...
If walls could talk.
It’s a bit of a cliche, isn’t it? The phrase itself is a universal colloquialism - it doesn’t matter which cultural or generational background a person comes from, everybody understands the idea that structures, much like humans...
Stories of “close encounters”, that is to say, contact between humanity and something not of this earth, have become major cultural touchstones of modern societ...
Like mournful echo from the silent tomb
That pines away upon the midnight air,
Whilst the pale moon breaks out with fitful gloom,
Fond memory turns, with sad...
Deep within the heart of Hocking County lie a series of verdant gorges and sandstone caves chiseled by time’s artisan hand. Here one will find turquoise streams and pools pushed forward by picturesque waterfalls that flow between monumental cliffs an...
Writer. Musician. Eagle Scout. Bureaucrat. Mike is a graduate of Marietta College and a Marietta native. After spending a stint with the government in Kansas City, Mike has moved back to the Mid-Ohio Valley to set down roots with his wife Jessica and their two cats, Haytham and Luna. A State and National Park enthusiast, Mike is an advocate for escaping the cubicle and crawling around in the woods whenever possible.
