Presenter Ron Coddington. Free and open to the public. Stonewall Jackson Civil War Roundtable. For more information contact Bill Yoke (weyoke@gmail.com) or Rick Wolfe (ra_wolfe@msn.com). Sponsored by the Barbara B. Highland Fund for the Arts and Hampton Inns.
West Virginia History through Archives–Preserving the Mountain State’s Stories CLASS 2: "Wheeling’s Treasure Maps: Using New Digital Tools to Find the Oldest Surviving Homes in North Wheeling" Professor Dan Bonenberger of Eastern Michigan’s Historic Preservation Program will discuss how he is leading an effort to identify houses from the 1830s to 1860s by analyzing old…
West Virginia History through Archives–Preserving the Mountain State’s Stories CLASS 3: "Time Capsules to Our Past: Identifying and Preserving our Photographic Images" With the click of a shutter, a camera has the unique ability to freeze a moment in time, capturing a split-second time capsule view into our history. The visual evidence photographs provide of…
Podcast #5 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app October 20, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…
Podcast #6 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app October 21, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…
West Virginia History through Archives–Preserving the Mountain State’s Stories CLASS 4: "Through Flood & Fire: Preserving the Records of St. John Catholic Church in Benwood, West Virginia" The Catholic community of Benwood can be traced back nearly 150 years and has weathered disasters ranging from floods, wind, and fire, not to mention one of the…
Podcast #7 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app October 29, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…
Podcast #8 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app November 2, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…
Podcast #9 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app November 4, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…
Podcast #10 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app November 5, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…
