This revised edition, updated with new research, is reprinted with permission from the Fall 2019 issue of Goldenseal Magazine (for Ann Thomas) Wheeling’s Twentieth Man “To accept one’s past—one’s history—is […]
A Man of More Than Usual Brilliancy
The Life, Career, and Fall of Dr. B.H. Stillyard PROLOGUE On February 2, 2021, we presented a Lunch With Books Livestream program for the Ohio County Public Library, exploring the lives, […]
German Days
What Two Real Photo Postcards Reveal About Early Twentieth Century Wheeling Why are there so many real photo postcards (RPPC’s) postmarked 1906 or 1907? The credit is due to George Eastman […]
Miss Totorri in Wheeling
The Japanese Friendship Dolls of 1927 In 1927, 14 years before the attack on Pearl Harbor would change the relationship between the two countries forever, Japan sent ambassadors to the […]
Archiving Wheeling Presents
Lesser Known Legends of Wheeling: African American Leaders by Seán Duffy and Erin Rothenbuehler On February 2, 2021, we presented a Lunch With Books Livestream program exploring the lives, times, […]
A Brief History of Centre Foundry
Don’t miss the Library’s Program, Remembering Centre Foundry, Coming Up on May 6, 2025. Like most kids who grew up in Warwood, I walked, biked, or drove by a […]
Making a Way Out of No Way
Wheeling in the Green Book “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men […]
From Irish Row to Corktown
The Wheeling Irish How did so many Irish immigrants end up in the United States and in Wheeling? There were many waves of immigration. But the biggest one related to […]
Cartooning “Pa Wheeling”
Cy Hungerford Hones His Craft in the Friendly City — written by Terri Blanchette Few people in Pittsburgh today know of an institution who once graced their city with his […]
Angels of the Wards: All-Star Nurses of Wheeling
“Nurses are there when the last breath is taken, and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is […]
