Category Archives: West Virginia
Appalachian Poet – Bertie Jane Cutlip
Outside a country store in the Allegheny Mountains, she stood behind a table covered in mason jars of home-made apple jelly and pickles. It was one of those glorious fall days in West Virginia, so I lingered to buy some … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, West Virginia
Tagged poetry, poetry anthology, Sharp's Country Store, Webster County, West Virginia
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Should They Who Pay the Pipeline Call the Tune?
We gathered along an empty country road to gaze at the wounded hillside. It now has an orange stripe of bare earth instead of a green canopy. The sight reminded me of how skin contracts from the path of a … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, West Virginia
Tagged Atlantic Coast Pipeline, coal mine, gas pipeline, karst geology
My Neighbor's Maple Syrup Sugar Shack
There’s a family I know in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia that has made maple syrup for over a century. As they are now short-handed of youngsters leaving for city work and the retainers get older and frailer, I … Continue reading
