A wealthy widow lived the high life in this Gilded Age country house. Samuel Taylor Suit was many things: a successful whiskey distiller; an honorary Kentucky colonel; and a wealthy, well-connected landowner, businessman and politician. He was also unlucky in love. Samuel Suit’s first wife died in childbirth, and his second wife divorced him after…
Representatives from Google made a stop in Berkeley Springs Monday to speak with middle schoolers about staying safe online. Here at Warm Springs Middle School in Berkeley Springs, 470 sixth, seventh and eighth-graders sit in the bleachers of their gymnasium listening to two representatives from Google.
For much of the year, West Virginia lives up to its “almost heaven” moniker, serving up its beauty on meandering country roads, through rocky rivers and over high mountain peaks. But it’s never closer to heaven than in the fall, when its sugar maples prepare to shed their leaves and the view is all amber…
So, Oscar night came and went. Or as I like to refer to it: The Awards Ceremony for Films I Haven’t Seen. Don’t get me wrong. Like most red-blooded Americans, I love going to the movies. I love the two-hour escape they provide from the everyday. I love the giant tubs of popcorn, replete with…