Hundred Mountain

Click image or here to watch video. So, I encouraged my newspaper colleague, Bill Lynch, to wander into the Milton corn maze, eight acres of twisting, looping, confusing trails amid the corn stalks. I tracked him with a video camera. He got lost. I got lost. We got lost. This is what video cameras are [...]

The Hoopies were out in force at Culturefest 2010, atop a mountain in southern West Virginia.

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” ~ Linda Hogan

Maj0r Minor I am a major minor artist. Which is better, I think, than being a minor major artist. ~ By Cardinal Crowe (from the forthcoming collection of epigrams, bon mots and poetry, “What I Meant To Say,” The WestVirginiaVille Press)

Wannabe diners spill out onto Quarrier Street, looking for a last meal at Blossom Dairy before the Bill Sohovich-era comes to a close at the popular lunchhole in downtown Charleston, W.Va. Click to enlarge. See Sohovich in action, in full field marshall mode at high noon lunch hour, talking to the camera about why he’s [...]

A cool drink of water. Click to enlarge.

Generally, it’s straight to the spam-can with the spam messages that sneak through my blog filters. Now and then, one makes it through that is sheer… well, if not poetry, a haiku written by a beatnik poet on meth. Like the one below that I got today, broken into free verse poetic lines. Did a [...]

My musical mate and fellow traveler Kathleen Coffee turned me on this oh-so-nourishing music video. I ask these questions of my own modest musical-artistic ventures almost every day. This song, in its joyful directness and simplicity, answers the questions ‘Why try and be creative?” and “Does anyone care?” with its own lilting echo. How could [...]

Listen. You know who you are, the kind of person who when properly convinced that a road trip is in order undertakes said roadtrip. All the rest of you may stop reading now (except, if you don’t mind, would you please click that arrow in the video above and take a look at the latest [...]

Some people talk a good game and then do … not much at all. Some people put their hands and hearts where their talk is. Like the front line eco-warriors of PickUpAmerica.org. I met these folks while shooting video down Alderson, W.Va., for the PGA Greenbrier Classic. There they were alongside the Greenbrier River, sweating [...]