World barbecue champion Luke Darnell talks cartoon pigs, done temperatures, and popped tires. Morgantown native Luke Darnell started barbecuing as a kid, spending hours with his friends tending a smoking hole in the ground at their parents’ summertime pig roasts. “When smoke would start coming out of the ground, we’d have to take a shovel and cover it. We didn’t…
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Recent stories from Morgantown
Song Remains the Same
Morgantown’s Andrew White Guitars isn’t just surviving, it’s thriving. As a West Virginia University sophomore in Spain, Andrew White was constantly reminded to explore the world around him. “When you travel abroad, they tell you, ‘Immerse yourself in the culture. That’s the best way to learn the language,’” White says. He was doing just that when he walked into the…
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Where are the County Seats?
A backgrounder on public sitting in Morgantown. Picture a downtown bench. A bench on a sidewalk. Maybe it sits in the midday shade of a tree—a place a person might stop to sip a coffee, chat on the phone with a friend, tie a shoe. Such a simple pleasure, a bench. It can also be very complicated. If you’ve noticed…
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The Spark That Ignites
On a farm outside Morgantown, a remarkable WVU alum spends long days making guns the old-fashioned way. ➼ Marvin Wotring still has the first gun he ever made. Recovering from a knee surgery in 1974 that left his leg confined from ankle to thigh for 11 weeks, Marvin was looking for something to occupy the new swath of free time…
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7 Years in the Big XII
How are West Virginia University, Morgantown, and West Virginia benefiting from the university’s membership in the Big 12? In more ways than you know. On the morning of Monday, October 24, 2011, then–WVU President Jim Clements sat in his wood-paneled office in Stewart Hall, waiting for a call. It’s easy to picture him: always in a collar and tie, always…
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