Letter from the Editor
Welcome, Fayette Neighbors!
The GreeneScene normally doesn’t include a letter from the editor in each issue, instead dedicating the space to one of the many interesting articles about our community. But with our recent expansion into the nearby towns of Fayette County, I am overjoyed to write this letter of welcome to our neighbors.
With this recent expansion, the GreeneScene will now be delivered, not only to every town in Greene County and a few bordering Washington County towns, to five additional towns in Fayette County: Adah, Leckrone, Masontown, McClellandtown, and Ronco. We also began delivering to Point Marion mid-way through 2019 after our popular “I Love This Place” featuring the town.
These towns in Fayette County lie close our Greene County border and have considerable shared history with Greene County. Ronco, which lies directly across the river from Nemacolin, once shared a ferry with the same town and part of the Ronco mine became the Robena mine in Greene.
Adah, another patch town built to support a coal mine, and Masontown, founded in the late 1700s and originally known as Fort Mason, also lie along the curving line of the Monongahela River and share families and history with Greene County. Leckrone and McClellandtown, while a little farther away, are both close enough to our border to share neighborly interests.
In the upcoming months, GreeneScene Community Magazine is looking to continue making improvements to our magazine. We strive to make each issue full of interesting and relevant information and stories that showcase the good in our communities. The addition of our Fayette County neighbors enables us to showcase even more fascinating stories about southwestern Pennsylvania.
So, WELCOME Fayette County neighbors! For those of you that have never read our magazine, we are a direct-mailed, monthly magazine. Our magazine mails right to your home; you don’t have to search us out in stores or offices to read our stories – we bring them right to your door for free. We are 100% local with local content, local events, and local businesses. We’re all about the GOOD in our communities – good feelings, good news, and community connections.
The best part is that we are now direct mailed to nearly 25,000 homes in the Greene-Fayette-Washington area with approximately 50,000 readers. If you’re a business owner, there’s no better way to advertise. The GreeneScene is the only magazine that fully saturates Greene County and it’s bordering neighbors. No other media can offer that kind of coverage.
Danielle Nyland, Editor
February 2020
Meet Our Team
Every month, our enthusiastic team of editors, writers, designers, and advertising specialists work behind the scenes to create each issue of GreeneScene Community Magazine. This passionate team is dedicated to creating a fascinating, optimistic, and relevant magazine that our readers love. Over the next year, we’ll be introducing you to our team, member by member, so that you can get to know the devoted crew that brings you the GreeneScene.
This month, we’d like to introduce you to our editor, Danielle Nyland. Danielle Nyland is a local photographer, artist, and writer. She is a Greene County native and currently lives in Nemacolin with her husband, Daytona, two sons, Remington and Kylo, and an English bull terrier, Sparky.
Danielle has a background in graphic design, web publishing, social media, management, and photography. She graduated American Public University with an associate degree in web publishing and Bellevue University with a bachelor degree in graphic design. She has also attended the New York Institute of Photography. Before joining the team, she worked in retail and as an instructor at Laurel Business Institute.
Outside of her work with the GreeneScene, she enjoys painting and drawing, photography, and loves reading books and watching movies – especially the scary ones!
Danielle has been photographing and writing about local history and events since 2010 as part of the SWPA Rural Exploration team. She’s active in local community events and committees. She’s a board member with Flenniken Public Library and is on the committees for the Sheep & Fiber Festival, 50’s Fest & Car Cruise, and Light Up Night.
Just For Fun Facts
- Favorite Movie: My Bloody Valentine
- Favorite TV Show: Are You Being Served? & Flight of the Conchords
- Favorite Book: Christine (Stephen King), Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
- Favorite Hidden PA Gem: Fiddles in Brownsville
- Favorite Vacation Spot: Gettysburg
- Favorite Holiday: Halloween
- What’s a movie you can practically quote from start to finish? Army of Darkness
- If you could live in any period of history when would it be? The 70s – for the cars!
- What’s your dream car? Either a ‘71 Plymouth Hemi Cuda, ‘58 Plymouth Fury, or ‘67 Pontiac Firebird
