Roadtrip through Charleston, West Virginia | The Local Palate
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The Local Palate traveled to West Virginia to explore the unique culinary scene and cultural eats of this Southern mountain state. The journey began in the capital city of Charleston and continued on through Morgantown and Fayetteville, with necessary off-the-beaten-path stops along the way. In Charleston we dined in the East End neighborhood at the historic Bluegrass Kitchen and tried traditional West Virginia fare at the pool-hall turned restaurant, The Grill. We traveled up the winding curves of Bridge Road to dine at the contemporary restaurant South Hill Market & Cafe, tried chocolates, coffee, and handcut slabs of meat at the notable Capital Market, and winded down at Lola's Pizza for baked pies and sangria. Enjoy part one of West Virginia journey and follow us as we eat our way through beautiful Charleston, West Virginia.
2016 'Tastiest Town' Tour of 7 West Virginia Cities
The 2016 'Tastiest Town' series by the Charleston Gazette-Mail brought 'Food Guy' Steven Keith to nibble, munch and dine his way through seven West Virginia cities, in the hunt for the 'Tastiest Town' in the state. Here are some of the staff photographs shot for the series. For results, and to view the stories and videos about each city — Parkersburg, Lewisburg, Huntington, Charleston, Fayetteville, Shepherdstown and Morgantown — visit
Roadtrip through Morgantown, West Virginia | The Local Palate
Presented by The Local Palate, the premier magazine of southern food culture. The Local Palate traveled to West Virginia to explore the unique culinary scene and cultural eats of this Southern mountain state. After filling our bellies in the capital city of Charleston we traveled on to one of the best small cities in the country - the city of Morgantown. In the college town of Morgantown we dined at a well-known watering hole, Mario's Fish Bowl, and wasted no time indulging in the fish bowl - a goblet of cold beer. After taking in this old school diner meets dive bar we stopped at Tin 202 to enjoy the stylish setting, small plates, and speciality crafted cocktails. After cocktails and small bites it was time to hit Stefano's, a classic Italian restaurant with an extensive menu of specialities from whole branzino to handmade pastas. The culinary tour of Morgantown, WV did not stop here - enjoy part two of our West Virginia journey and follow us as we continue to eat our way through this mountain state.
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Best Places to Visit in West Virginia, USA
Best Places to Visit in West Virginia, USA
West Virginia is an ideal year-round vacation destination with endless places to visit ranging from beautiful mountain retreats to quaint historic towns. With so many opportunities to enjoy outdoor recreation, the state is a mecca for the active traveler but also a nice place to relax and unwind in a natural setting. Popular activities include hiking, biking, fishing, whitewater rafting, kayaking, rock climbing, zip lining, ATVing. horseback riding and more. Winter activities include downhill and cross country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, and ice skating. For history lovers, heritage sites abound throughout the mountains offering glimpses of how the Civil war, colonial life, and early explorers all helped shape American culture. While there are dozens of fun places to explore, here are ten of the “must sees” in West Virginia.
#1.Harpers Ferry
#2.Snowshoe Mountain
#3.New River Gorge
#4.Seneca Rocks
#5.Blackwater Falls and Canaan Valley
#6.Coopers Rock State Forest
#7.Stonewall Resort
#8.Greenbrier State Forest
#9.Gauley River National Recreation Area
#10.Hatfield and McCoy Trails
West Virginia Food is HEAVY | Before The Bomb
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We try West Virginia's most notable foods. We get a proud stomach ache.
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West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast. The capital and largest city is Charleston.
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Join us on a wacky roadside adventure in West Virginia as we visit a giant coal miner, giant cactus, abandoned gas station, covered bridge, and a giant giraffe!
Charleston CVB, West Virginia - Unravel Travel TV
A walkable city, Charleston is the gateway to all that is Wild and Wonderful about West Virginia. It is the capital city with small town charm, and a progressive attitude. It is located on the northeast bank of the river and is entirely surrounded by hills. The description is as true today as it was in 1861. Hip, Historic, Almost Heaven...Charleston, West Virginia, is steeped in historic architecture, an eclectic music scene, bountiful shopping, unique dining and four seasons of changing mountain landscape.
Charleston also is the perfect hub from which to venture to other West Virginia activities. The capital city serves as the gateway to all that is wild and wonderful in the Mountain State, including snow skiing, world-class zip-line canopy tours, whitewater rafting, ATV trails, golfing, hiking, fishing, rock climbing, mountain biking, canoeing, and kayaking - all within an hour's drive or less.
It's a convenient city with a lot to offer. It is a 5 minute drive from Yeager Airport to downtown Charleston, and only 1 hour drive to world-class whitewater rafting, mountain climbing, zip-lining and ATV trails. It boasts a 23.5 karat gold, 293-foot state Capitol dome makes the building 5 feet higher than the U.S. Capitol (and offers free daily tours) The 1500 block of Virginia St. is considered the longest city block in the world. There is a trolley ride for a fun way to tour Hip, Historic...Almost Heaven Charleston, West Virginia.
Charleston's attractions include 8 golf courses within five minutes of downtown, 5 separate shopping areas provide plenty of variety, 130 specialty shops and three department stores in the Town Center Mall make for a perfect shopping spree, 22 boutiques and bistros at The Bridge Road Shops provide unique finds and local food options, 49 people can take a river cruise on the Spirit of West Virginia, 25 (at least) gardens in the East End Garden Showcase give you a close-up view of this historical district , 6,000 artifacts are displayed in the West Virginia State Museum (free daily tours), 26 discovery rooms also are located in the West Virginia State Museum, 13
Governors have lived in the Governor's Mansion (free tours with reservations) and there are 1,200 slot machines at Mardi Gras Casino & Resort will keep you busy for hours.
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Get Rid of the EPA? Clean Coal. | Henry Rollins' Capitalism: Charleston, West Virginia | TakePart TV
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Henry Rollins traverses 50 states with a politically-themed talk show, culminating with an election-eve performance in Washington D.C. on November 5th. This two-month tour will stop in each state capital -- starting September 6 at Hawaiian Brian's in Honolulu, HI, venturing through places like the Diamond Ball Room in Oklahoma City, T.F. Riggs High School in Pierre, South Dakota and ending up in Washington, D.C., Henry's hometown. Henry's latest tour offers not so much a voting guide, but an unveiling of Henry's very own political viewpoint -- an unflinching quest for truth.
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15 Cool and Unusual Places to Visit in West Virginia
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The 10 Most Redneck Cities In West Virginia Explained.
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West Virginia's bleak outlook (2011) | 7.30
The struggling state of West Virginia is one of the hardest hit by the United States' lagging economy.
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LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Recently in the United States, there was finally a bit of good economic news with unemployment dropping to its lowest level in more than two and half years. But overall, the economy remains in a slump and some parts of the country have been particularly hard hit.
A recent poll shows almost every American state is pessimistic about the future, but the bleakest outlook of all is in West Virginia.
North America correspondent Michael Brissenden went to find out why.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN, REPORTER: Few places in America know economic hardship quite like West Virginia. Here in McDowell County in particular, hardship and struggle have been the songlines for generations.
ALAN JOHNSTON: My grandmother on my daddy's side was a musician. She played banjo (inaudible). And my dad was a ribbon-winning old-time fiddler in this area.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Like a lot of people here, Alan Johnston's family have music in their blood, but coal dust in their lungs.
ALAN JOHNSTON: My dad he worked in the mines for 20-some years and then he got so bad off he had to come out of the mines. He got silicosis in his lungs and black lung and they had to remove one of his lungs as a matter of fact. My brother, he worked in the mines. His name's Clayton. And he got his disability in - he's in his early '70s now, but his health is shot.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: West Virginia was built on coal. From the early 1900s until the 1960s, a coal rush filled the valleys or hollers, as they're called around here, with jobs. These were tough people and coal mining was tough work, but it's been even tougher without it.
JOHN FANNING, WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR: I think the loss of population is the biggest problem. Up and down this hollow here and in the area around Welchinaw (phonetic spelling), we had 100,000 people. We had bookos (phonetic spelling) of stores. We had at one time 13 car dealerships in this county. We have none today.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: State Senator John Fanning is a long-time local. This part of West Virginia has unique problems, he says, but America as a whole should be better at protecting itself.
JOHN FANNING: We have outsourced our jobs. Where do we have anything made in the United States or where do we have anything made in West Virginia? It's not only McDowell County, it's not only West Virginia, it's the United States of America. Jobs.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: When he's not engaged in state politics, John Fanning at least has one of the few thriving businesses in his dying town. His family have been the undertakers here for the past 80 years.
JOHN FANNING: We are a county of old people, so the funeral business still prosperous because we're dealing in older people. This is a nice place to live, but it doesn't provide a lot of the necessities that young people need.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: And many of the young people who have stayed have been trapped in a downward spiral of unemployment and addiction.
BRYAN: There ain't no opportunities. Cheque, food stamps, drugs - that's about it.
LOCAL WOMAN: This place is really awful, it really is.
BRYAN: There ain't nothing to do.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: McDowell County has some of the highest poverty rates, lowest education levels and biggest drug problems of anywhere outside of America's big cities. The urban ghettos are mostly home to a black underclass. Out here it's white.
Today just a few hundred metres from the Fanning funeral home, Brian and his friends are busy stripping one of the empty buildings of almost anything of value.
BRYAN: All my life I've been on drugs.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: And that's a big - I mean, a lot of people on that round here?
BRYAN: Everything you see round here's on drugs.
LOCAL WOMAN: I've got a 13-year-old son; he's locked up.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: What did your parents do?
BRYAN: Coal miners and nurses. You know what I mean? That's about it. Now you gotta have a college education and all that. I guess we was left back in the pack.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: It's not difficult to see why this would be a place with a less-than-positive view of the future. The last 50 years has been tough on West Virginia. But that bleak outlook has bred a black humour, and as they like to say around here, this is one of the few places in the United States that's hardly felt the effects of the current great recession.
JEAN BATTLO, WRITER: We've been down so long it looks like up to us - you know that saying? Actually, psychologically, socially, I don't feel personally that we're feeling the nation's economic crunch the way others have because we've already been there, we're already there.
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Things To Do in West Virginia: Thurmond GHOST TOWN
We continued our West Virginia tour with a visit to the ghost town of Thurmond where we spent the afternoon wandering abandoned streets and pressing our noses against the windows of abandoned buildings (except for the one that we “visited” from the inside ????????????). Thurmond is officially the least populated town in West Virginia. According to the 2010 census, Thurmond had dropped to a population of five. 5! This means you could literally count the entire town’s citizenry on one hand. (During our visit, we only found 2 homes inhabited, so we are guessing this number may still be accurate today.)
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Best Family Vacation Resorts, Visit West Virginia, White Water Rafting West Virginia
Best Family Vacation Resorts, Visit West Virginia, White Water Rafting West Virginia, Fun Things to Do in West Virginia - We had an amazing vacation visiting Southern West Virginia! It was exciting, high adventure, relaxing, peaceful and exhilarating all at the same time! I've never felt closer to nature & my family than on this fabulous trip! I have an 8 & 14 year old & there were so many fun, family activities there was no time for boredom....just nature and more FUN, SMILES & LAUGHTER! We stayed at River Expeditions (I'll post the links below to all of our activities & the resort) which is a mountain camping style resort in the hills of West Virginia with anything from tent camping to RV sites to cabins & even luxury cabin accommodations with 5 bedroom full kitchen cabins & a hot tub on the porch! We made some incredible memories rappelling, mountain climbing, white water river rafting (they have rapids and current rivers for young beginners to pros) and we even walked on the cat walk under a bridge over an 850' gorge - SPECTACULAR!!!
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LEWISBURG, WEST VIRGINIA | City Overview
Despite its diminutive size, Lewisburg has an energy and feeling that sets it apart from many places. The artistic community draws entertainers, actors, musicians and artists from across the globe to perform at the city's venues.
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