West Virginia history Archives - Appalachian History

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That ghosts walk & supernatural powers rule on Halloween is the ancient superstition used to excuse the mad gayety of the modern celebration.

Brothers and sisters Burl Hammons, Sherman Hammons, Maggie Hammons Parker, and Ruie Hammons at Burl, Maggie, and Ruie's home in Stillwell, near Marlinton, 1972

December 31, 2018 Christmas traditions / West Virginia

Old Christmas superstition

They claim if the house drips on Old Christmas—not the first Christmas, Old Christmas, that they’ll be a good fruit year, plenty of fruit and mast and everything.

January 23, 2018 Appalachian crime / Ghost stories / Halloween / West Virginia

The Greenbrier Ghost

This case is a one of a kind in the American judicial system … in which the word of a ghost helped to solve a crime and convict a murderer!

hungarian reformed church, monongalia county wv

March 31, 2017 Immigrants / West Virginia

Magyars in Morgantown

Hungarians called the US immigration from 1880 to about 1915 the ‘Great Economic Immigration.’ 650,000-700,000 Hungarians came to America.

March 14, 2017 Politics / West Virginia

Inaugural Address of WV Gov. Henry D. Hatfield

It is indeed lamentable to relate that more than eighty per cent of our fuel and raw material is utilized outside the state.

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