WV ARTIST ON DISPLAY: VISUALLY DOCUMENTING LIFE W/ JENNY HARNISH

Meet Jenny Harnish, a multimedia journalist and wedding photographer in Lewisburg, WV. She works for herself w/ Greenbrier Images and as a photographer/videographer for the Register-Herald. While in graduate school in Washington DC, Jenny developed the idea for a website – PrisonStories.org – that would bring together the best short documentaries about people who have […]

IN THE SPIRIT: SPARKLING WINES TO TOAST IN THE NEW YEAR. BY BRIAN MCCLURE

It’s that time of year again when restaurants and wine stores see an uptick in their sales of sparkling wine and for good reason as well, since it has become the most festive style of wine worldwide. That is, for the last several centuries at least, since the origins of sparkling wine go back to […]

BAILEY’S PACE: EAGER HEARTS & HOPEFUL OUTLOOKS. BY BAILEY PACE

And suddenly it was December. The final month of the year. Everything is merry and bright. Because in retrospect, we deserve a final hurrah after the year we have had. Goodbye, Prince. Goodbye, David Bowie. Goodbye, Alan Rickman. I feel like almost everyone can agree that 2016 has been a doozy. So with eager hearts […]

FUTURE DOC: CANARIES IN A COAL MINE. BY DR. PENCE

Many of you are likely familiar with the phrase “canaries in a coal mine”, which refers to the previous practice of miner’s taking canaries into the mines with them in order to detect high levels of dangerous gases. If the concentration of these gases rose too high the exposed canaries would be killed before killing […]

HALFBAKED N’ BOTHERED: LICKING OUR WOUNDS. BY MARGARET BAKER

Did anyone else feel like they woke up on November 9th to find themselves in an episode of The Hunger Games?  A place where people with funny colored hair and a dystopian world view are in charge? Did anyone else feel pummeled nearly to death by the You Tubing of democracy?  Our recent  attempt to […]

MY DOG & I: SIT. BY JANINE LAZARUS

The first thing most people try to teach their dogs…The first place we go to (after “No!) when we run into trouble and the most misunderstood of all the commands…The “sit” command is seemingly the number one command that we attempt as amateur dog trainers and the command that owners often use to measure the […]