Ballhooter Festival
SNOWSHOE, W.Va. – Tis the season for announcing spring and summer festivals. But if you really can’t wait to get that festival feeling, that’s OK, because Snowshoe Mountain is going to go ahead and start the party come March when there’s still plenty of snow in the mountains for Spring Break. Snowshoe just announced the […]
Winter in Pocahontas
Original Post Here: https://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/dave-lavender-late-winter-trip-comes-with-its-own-west/article_c86625ae-6822-5c39-855d-89cc0a0f50d3.html While West Virginia may be small in area, we know how to stack, pack and pile things vertically. Like the cluttered Fred Flintstone closet and Chevy Chase’s Vacation piled-high station wagon, there are plenty of things to find in the West Virginia mountains – it just takes a minute and a […]
Stonewall Resort Wine Weekend
ROANOKE, W.Va. — Sometimes a good road-trip starts by looking at a map. In the weeks after Christmas, I was at a friend’s house admiring their new Basecamp Printing West Virginia state map that listed all of the State Parks and counting up the ones that we have been to and the ones we have somehow […]
Rocking Hikes
Many ‘rocking’ hikes to be found across region Oddly enough, I suppose, winter is one of my favorite times to hike. Trees barren of their leaves stretch and bend, posing for silhouettes at sundown through shining hues of purple, orange and mellow yellow. Add to that the fact that many state parks and forests are […]
Newport Aquarium
NEWPORT, Ky. – Here in the shadows of Earth Day, it’s always a good reminder that about 71 percent of the Earth is actual covered with water.It is our gold. Fresh water and air are what we need to survive. Those life-giving elements are what separates our planet from a billion other shiny stars.While oceans […]