I Love This Place: From Round Bottom to Jollytown
With Memorial Day weekend coming up how about lunch in Hundred, WV, then a back roads return into Pennsylvania to...
Read moreDetailsColleen has been a freelance artist longer than she’s been a journalist but her inner child who read every word on cereal boxes and went on to devour school libraries and tap out stories on her old underwood portable was not completely happy until she became a VISTA outreach worker for Community Action Southwest in 1990. Her job – find out from those who live here what they need so that social services can help fill the gaps.
“I went in to the Greene County Messenger and told Jim Moore I’d write for free about what was going on in the community and shazam! I was a journalist!”
Soon she was filing stories about rural living with the Observer-Reporter, the Post-Gazette and the GreeneSaver (now GreeneScene).
Colleen has been out and about in rural West Greene since 1972. It was neighbors who helped her patch fences and haul hay and it would be neighbors who told her the stories of their greats and great-greats and what it was like back in the day.
She and neighbor Wendy Saul began the Greene Country Calendar in 1979, a labor of love that is ongoing.
You guessed it – she loves this place!
With Memorial Day weekend coming up how about lunch in Hundred, WV, then a back roads return into Pennsylvania to...
Read moreDetailsThis old postcard from the Brice and Linda Rush collection shows just one of the many elegant houses and stately...
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Read moreDetailsThe landscape of Hundred, WV is popping with new happenings, yet things still feel as comfortable as a home cooked...
Read moreDetailsI found this old photograph in Hundred Library’s tastefully historic rest room, flanked by a framed sketch of Henry “Old Hundred”...
Read moreDetailsWhen East Ward School on 176 N. Porter St. in Waynesburg became Landmark Baptist Church in 1997, Pastor Arnold Watts,...
Read moreDetailsThe stretch of State Rt. 18 aka Golden Oaks Road between Grimes Hill and Nettle Hill rides the Warrior Trail....
Read moreDetailsThe house that sits at the top of Grimes Hill gives little indication it was once one of the many...
Read moreDetailsWhen Methodism came to the valley below Grimes Hill in 1852, its first parishioners met at Johnson’s Schoolhouse for Sabbath...
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