By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Here we are in the last week of November 2023 and the end of the year is coming fast. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and didn’t eat too much. If you were out there deer hunting, I hope you got meat for...
Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Nov. 22, 1910: Fire destroyed the academic building at Concord College. By the next morning, community leaders had arranged to teach the 300...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Everyone has heard the Dr. Suess Story of The Cat in The Hat, well this past week I woke up around 3 a.m. and I had A Hat from a Cat. Yes Katy Kat had made her way between my head and the headboard...
Nov. 15, 2010: The landmark Aracoma Hotel in Logan was damaged by fire. It was demolished later that year. Nov. 16, 1734: Samuel Washington was born at Pope’s Creek, Virginia. Samuel, a younger brother of George Washington, was the first of several members of the Washington family to live in...
This is a photo of the Dry Fork Lumber Company’s mill and dam in Lanesville, WV. Visible is the dam with the logs backed up behind it. There are several large two-story homes visible around the hill sides. Other photos of Lanesville showed it to be a nice sized town....
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Nov. 10 was the 23rd anniversary of mom’s passing and it even landed on the same date as her death. Sometimes time passes so slowly but in this instance 23 years seems like the blink of an eye. I can still remember how she...
By: Lydia Crawley The Parsons Advocate With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching and thoughts of Turkey and all the trimmings mingling in the minds of many, I began to wonder what makes Thanksgiving different in Appalachia, and especially West Virginia, from the rest of the country. So, I started digging......
This bucket and contents are familiar to several folks. The Red Cross provided these buckets and contents to help with cleaning up from the horrible flood of November 5, 1985. The Flood upset and ruined many lives. Many merchants in the Parsons Area were just not able to come back...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate We have experienced so many weather changes this past week, we have had rain that turned to snow, cold weather that turned warm again and I am very confused. I just want it to stay warm but that is not going to happen. ...
This week’s picture was taken by Beverly Ellison, in Thomas.
Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Nov. 8, 1936: “It’s Wheeling Steel,” a half-hour musical variety radio program, debuted over WWVA in Wheeling. The program was an instant success with...
This is a photo of the National Bank of Davis erected in 1892. This photo was taken before 1915 because the west wing was added that year. The building is made of native stone and 50,000 feet of maple flooring was secured from Canaan Valley from the farm of W....
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate The weather has been crazy here, week before it was getting down into the twenties and this week it has been in the mid 70’s. We cleaned up the yard here at work a couple weeks ago and they are growing back now because...
This is a railroad bridge across the river at Jenningston. In the middle of the picture in view behind the train engine is the Jenningston School. The school was a two-story building with a bell. Jenningston was a nice-sized town until the floods ravished the area. Ideas, comments, suggestions, or...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate Freya Bleu is growing quickly and she is into everything. I’ve had to take her to the vet because the person I got her from emailed and said one of her littermates had coccidia. Coccidia are a single cell parasite that infects the intestinal...
Editor, Far from light pollution, West Virginia's state parks and forests offer some of the best stargazing spots on the east coast. If you look at a light pollution map of the US, West Virginia is dark! In 2021, Watoga State Park, Calvin Price State Forest and Droop Mountain Battlefield...
This week’s photo was taken in Thomas by Beverly Ellison.
Marshall Goldberg Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Oct. 25, 1918: Athlete Marshall “Biggie” Goldberg was born in Elkins. He led the Chicago Cardinals to the NFL championship in 1947...
By Teri Cayton The Parsons Advocate I pulled the trigger and added another fur-baby to the family. Her name is Freya Bleu and she is another black German Shepherd Dog. She is so like Ripley in her ways that it is kind of weird. I got her for my birthday...
This is the Bava Family-Gospel Singers. John Bava and his wife, Lucy and daughters Janet and Juanita. They were noted entertainers of Gospel and Religious Music. John was a coal miner and earned recognition as a song writer, music publisher, and owner of the Cozy Records Label. The Bava Family...
