In West Virginia, fall means WVU football. And there’s no better way to experience the magic of a Mountaineers game than hanging out with your fellow fans in the parking lots around Milan Puskar Stadium. Last October we held a tailgate at WVU’s game against Oklahoma State. Our staff supplied the food, making dishes inspired by the Mountaineers’ foes in…
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Recent stories from Morgantown
Missing Marsha
Some time in the evening of Monday, April 25, 1988, Gary Perkins dropped his friend Marsha Ferber off in front of her Underground Railroad nightclub on Pleasant Street. At least, he said he did.
Morgantown Macabre
Some people just know how to get their spook on. A vampire used to lurk over John DeProspero’s house in First Ward every Halloween. It flourished its cape when people walked by—terrifying. But then he and his wife had their roof replaced, and she banished the bloodsucker. That hasn’t stopped DeProspero from having his creepy-season fun. Of all of the…
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Art In Industry
Custom furniture makers find beauty in the raw. Few businesses have names that capture the essence of their product so well as Morgantown’s Artfully Industrial Furniture. Only one year after the company’s inception, its modern, custom pieces are beginning to make appearances in tastefully decorated businesses and homes throughout the area. Josh Perry is co-owner of Artfully Industrial and does…
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A Harvest of Horror
The annual making of Fright Farm. Back in 1990, Tom Rich’s brother Michael had an idea for putting an old house on the family’s Smithfield, Pennsylvania, farm to fun and productive use. Friends and family helped out. “We all worked together and picked a theme and put together a haunted house,” Rich recalls. The first weekend Fright Farm was open,…
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