The World in West Virginia
Small pockets of ethnicity still dwell in the hills and valleys of the Mountain State. Some are about to disappear. Others are going strong. This series of articles seeks to tell their tales.
October 2, 2005
‘Good water and good people’
Promise of mining jobs began lasting ties between north-central W.Va. and Italian town
MONONGAH — In the rugged Italian south, near the tip of the boot, there’s a little town built high o ...
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August 28, 2005
Asturian alliance
Spanish immigrants’ legacy fading in Harrison County
SPELTER — Talking with a friend beside her front porch along noisy U.S. 19, Josephine Alvarez mentio ...
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July 10, 2005
A vision of home
State is setting for chapel linked with Hungarian Freedom Fighters
BERKELEY SPRINGS — Ilona Gyorik walked slowly across the churchyard, each careful step a victory ove ...
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June 5, 2005
Secret society
Clay is home to generations of Cherokee descendants
CLAY — Vickie Osborne Brown was 10 when she found the words written in her grandmother’s Bible: Seab ...
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May 15, 2005
Black and white
Pendleton town is a study in race
MOATSTOWN — Cemeteries stand like sentries, peering down on this town. On each rise of the hilly ter ...
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