Historians at a Lewis County landmark go to great lengths to tell the story of the criminally insane, a history long kept behind locked doors. “It all starts with a question,” says Rebecca Gleason, operations manager at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston. Each year, tour guides marshal legions of people through the state mental hospital–turned–historic attraction. They show off…
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Recent stories from Morgantown
Hit the Jim
Go to Jim’s Gym for the workout. Go back for the workout and the stories. Jim March stopped going into Pittsburgh to earn $25 or $50 at the Saturday night fights when he got married at 17. But listening to country music on WKKW one day in December 1983, stoking the wood burner in the basement and eight months out…
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Elkview’s Earl
A WVU law grad looks back on a life helping clients get justice, helping lawyers get sober, and helping everyone else keep a song in their heart. The “Earl of Elkview,” George Daugherty, perches atop a stool next to the Don Knotts statue on Morgantown’s High Street. He is playing an American flag guitar and looking the statue directly in…
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Hometown Doc
A pediatrician finds ways to serve three of the things he loves most: children, Morgantown, and West Virginia. ➼ A single day changed the course of Bryce Harvey’s life. Harvey grew up in Morgantown and spent his first two years at WVU studying veterinary medicine. His original plan was to end up at Ohio State, and to that end, he…
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Tim Nurkiewicz
➼ A master’s degree in exercise physiology from WVU and several years’ work in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation led Tim Nurkiewicz to a specialized Ph.D. in microvascular physiology—the study of the very tiniest blood vessels. He researches what happens when we inhale pollution and other nanoparticles. Success with his previous laboratory, one inhalation chamber that handled environmental pollutants, earned a significant upgrade….
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