Once the World’s Largest Earth Moving Machine, “Big Muskie” could move 39 million pounds of earth and rock every hour. The enormous dragline machine, now disas...
Every other year, Marietta Main Street teams up with the Hidden Marietta Tour Company to host a very unique downtown tour. “Hidden Places, Secret Spaces” takes...
This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of temperance advocates like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League killing off “John Barl...
As an MOV native, it’s hard for me to think of this area other than how I’ve known it my whole life. This is why I’ve always loved history. History allows me t...
When someone says “national cemetery” the first thing the comes to mind, for most people, is Arlington National Cemetery. Though Arlington may very well be the ...
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 r...
Most people in the Midwest are familiar with the idea of a county fair, or a state fair, but not every community is as fortunate as Barlow to have their own com...
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...
The old City Hall, victim of the wrecking ball, was one of the best known landmarks on the Parkersburg skyline, falling in 1980. As for its end as the center of...
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 backgr...
