Wheeling WV Archives - Appalachian History

They deliberated whether to kill her or let her go

They deliberated as to whether they should kill her or let her go, and finally fixed upon the latter course.

Eleanor Steber commissioned & brought to life a 16-minute song that luxuriates in the calm of an earlier, contented, rocking-chair America.

Ellsworth Milton Statler, virtually without benefit of formal education, climbed to the pinnacle of the hotel business.

I once heard a bishop say “Whipping does not always conquer a child’s spirit, but I never have known a dash of ice water on his spine to fail”.

January 2, 1938: It’s Wheeling Steel, a live radio program from the Capitol Theater in Wheeling, premiered nationwide on the Mutual Network.