Posted by Denny, on February 17th, 2009
First of all – the West Virginia history segment I had intended to do has been scrapped, in a manner of speaking. I’m not going to display the newspaper clippings on the main blog but I have started a scrapbook for the clippings I intend to attach to the blog. Hence the layout change.
I’m writing [...]
Posted by Denny, on February 3rd, 2009
When I wrote the first post about the West Virginia Hillbilly paper, I said the paper covered 200 years of West Virginia history. In a manner of speaking this was an untrue statement. West Virginia became a state in 1863 so some of the history related to the state begins when West Virginia was still [...]
Posted by Denny, on February 1st, 2009
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As I said in the last post – these clippings are from the Bicentennial Edition of the West Virginia Hillbilly (1976).
I was going to transcribe the stories but to save myself a ton of work and to give the stories more authenticity, I’ve decided to make it more like a scrapbook with the clippings and [...]