#Beckley creek

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[heavenlybackside]

Little West Virginia Trivia for ya! Did you know the Glade Creek bridge on I-64 before you get to Beckley coming from Greenbrier County is the highest bridge in the U.S. interstate system. The bridge stands 700 feet above Glade Creek. Also, the bridge has the distinction of being the highest continuous truss bridge in the world.

[intheholler]

born and raised in beckley, West Virginia. i read somewhere that beckley was in the top 5 “fastest growing cities in America”. i’m vastly disappointed that another city full of rich rural history started becoming even more commercially blown up. my folks were raised in or towards Wyoming county — Bud, Mullens, Alpoca, Pineville, Turkey Creek. their sense of southern comfort and down home country pride precedes its reputation, but as a queer trans guy who ran like a bat out of hell away from the church, i know outside of Beckley (even inside Beckley) i’ll never 100% fit in around here.

my family moved to Daniels after spending 20 years in central Beckley. it’s quiet out here, it’s a 5 minute drive into town for groceries or fast food, the traffic’s bad but the folks so far have been kind and sociable. excited to see where we go from here.

all this to say, thank you for running your blog the way you do. endless love and pride from some bum in BFE, West Virginia.

i'm so glad you found somewhere that feels more comfortable for you to exist. i hate that we're all collectively getting pushed all over creation when all we wanna do is stay at home where it's beautiful and familiar and full of memories.

i'm not from there and have only ever visited a few towns, but all of this especially kills me about west virginia. y'all, the gorgeous home of the legendary battle of blair mountain, have gotten hit with some of the WORST of the stereotypical bullshit while also suffering some of the worst consequences of the economic and social neglect of the region, and now those same folks fucking everything up are flocking to it and gentrifying. it's downright sick.

i hope things keep looking up for you, and you are able to foster your own community where you've ended up. so much love right back to you <3

[nogchompa]

went 2 beckley creek 2day

[beckleysbooks]

When The Party's Over

Here it is, the end of October, Halloween to be exact. Tomorrow many across the Southwestern part of the US and Mexico will celebrate Dia De Los Muertos - The day of the dead. Then, that wraps up the Summer and Fall festivals for another year. And, what a season it has been for me, it was pretty much being somewhere new each week with my inaugural book tour and promoting my historical fiction about my 3rd great grandmother, "Oh! Susannah". All good things must come to an end, so they say.

The tour started on March 4th at a Local Author's event in Canton, Ohio. That giddy beginning had me reminiscing back to my youth, when I was just a little further east on State Route 30, in Minerva, Ohio. Each early summer the "Minerva Homecoming" would occur in Brock Park, situated nicely beside the Little Sandy River; creek actually. Anyway, the rides and concessions would start to arrive late on Saturday night and on through Sunday, with an anticipated "opening" of Monday evening, after the Firemen's Parade. How did they expect kids to wait that long when you could see from the road, just along the creek, a hub of activity. I was never allowed to go onto the park grounds, only viewing from a safe distance on my bike. The anticipation! And, this similar anticipation is what had me eager to start what turned out to be, an eight-month book tour.

My wife and I were traveling to Perryville, Kentucky about three weeks ago, when while at an Ohio Interstate rest stop, I show my wife where my travels this year had taken me. My left arm extended to the middle of the state, and formed the western boundary, while my right arm lie horizontally at the southern boundary of Cadiz, Ohio. Admittedly, we were taken back by the visual of the whole of Northeast Ohio!

Yes, it's been a great tour. I've met so many interesting people who have generously shared their stories and experiences with me. I've learned so much and equally have made every effort to share my knowledge of what it was like to live as a woman in the 19th century. Then, there were all the stories about Susannah's brothers' Civil War service. My hope is that I've given to others as much as they have shared with me. And, in the process, hundreds of signed copies of "Oh! Susannah" have exchanged hands.

It seems appropriate that the last outdoor event, The Algonquin Mill Festival, was held about 5 miles west of where Susannah's story takes place. I have such fond memories of my grandmother, Wilda Beckley, dressing up as a pioneer woman and knitting with all of her other lady friends, mind you in all kinds of weather, at the Mill Festival. I sat through days of rain too as fate would have it.

From the Algonquin Festival, I met people from my hometown and was also introduced to a locally renowned historian, John Davis. Our initial meeting led to John introducing me to Ralph Brackin about a week later. Ralph, who by the way will turn 97 early next year, and John provided me with their knowledge of Union Township, which will be "the home" of my sequel, "A novelization of John Hiram Beckley".

John Davis with the help of another local author and historian, Janice Lane, had me walking through the tree-studded, land-locked property that my grandfather's grandfather, John Hiram Beckley, once owned. Looking at it today, I have no idea how John Hiram farmed this piece of land. It was John Davis' great grandfather who owned the adjacent property directly north of this plot. John told of how his family's land was swallowed up with the creation of the man-made Leesville Lake. Memories came flooding back to me as we pulled into the Leesville boat ramp, the very spot 50 + years ago I had tenuously held on to the rope that kept my grandpa's boat "tethered" while he parked the car and trailer. A quick stop for bait - minnows and maggots - as we grew our own earthworms back then, and we motored off on to the lake with gramp's 5 horse power engine for a day of fishing!

Research, writing and memories have been the foundation and success of my first publication, and now that the fair and festival season is officially over, these very things will provide me the path forward to write my next book.

If by chance you do not currently own your own copy of "Oh! Susannah", you can do so by visiting my website: www.beckleysbooks.com Til next week, when I will blog again, cheers!

[502zon3y]

Trail at Beckley in Louisville, Ky

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Beckley Creek, Kentucky via /r/natureporn http://ift.tt/2sClV75

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A Stands for Amazing Travel Adventures - West Virginia

Amazing Travel Adventures - West Virginia shares my destination guide of places to go and see West Virginia style. Let's Travel!

Hello and welcome to Amazing Travel Adventures – West Virginia. Here I am sharing my Travel Destination guide to New River Gorge, Cass Scenic Railroad, Babcock State Park and so much more. Let’s explore and discover amazing travel adventures Washington style. New Rivers and River Bridges and Water Falls – West Virginia 1. New River Gorge is the oldest running river in the United States. New…

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Thurmond, WV: the Unsung Star of John Sayles’ Matewan - Updated.

I’ll admit I’ve got kinda’ fixated on Thurmond, and since John Sayles used it as the principle location where his movie Matewan was filmed, I’ve also watched that -- and then went on to read his book about movie making.  The text is, in general, about the crafting of a motion picture, but he uses Matewan as the case study.  

A few minutes into the film, a steam engine pulls a train across a creek (above) [1] which sure looks like this shot I took of an old C&O trestle over Dunloup Creek, (below) just west of Thurmond [3].  

While Sayles doesn’t dwell on all the details of the production design, he does write of Thurmond being a nearly perfect place to shoot: far from highways, not under airline routes, near enough to other municipalities (Mt. Hope and Beckley) to make on-location work possible.  Unlike the real Matewan, there were no new sidewalks, telephone poles, TV aerials, or modern lighting to remove.

Chris Cooper walking into town from the depot. [1]

Thurmond in 1988, the year after the movie was released. [2]

Thurmond in 2021: the usual shot of the business district. [3]

Truly, Thurmond is the unsung supporting star of the film, its remaining buildings not exactly appearing like Matewan’s commercial strip, but damn close, the storefronts nearly blank canvases, inside and out, for dressing as 1920. 

Chris Cooper and Nancy Mette at the depot. [1]

Chris Cooper with Thurmond in the background. [1]

Not all of Matewan was filmed in Thurmond; some locations had to be found elsewhere, but to keep costs down, all were within a certain radius of the “base” in Mt. Hope (which is maybe 10 miles away, allowing for the twisty roads).  Besides the town, they found a row of old buildings that looked like miners’ houses, a mine entry that hadn’t been sealed up, a log cabin near Beckley for one character’s home, and the like.  Interiors of existing Thurmond structures were revamped for filming or repurposed.

The store seen at right (above) was a facade built for the movie; later in the narrative it’s set on fire -- the proprietor of the store, C.E. Lively, was paid by the coal operators to spy on unionizing efforts; it’s situated where no building has stood since an Armour meat company building burned down in 1963. [1]  The interior of the store was shot in the basement of the still-extant Union Church, which sits up the hill from the commercial row.

(Above) Lively’s store on fire; David Strathairn and Josh Mostel are in the foreground; (below) the Baldwin-Felts gunsels approaching the business district with the burnt timbers of Lively’s store to the far right; note, too, on the far left, the lack of vegetation around the coaling tower, and the presence of C&O tracks which are now gone. [1]

The coaling tower today: the trackage through- and around the tower has all been removed; only the through-tracks remain (in the foreground).  The C&O wouldn’t let all the trees so close, either, and anyway, construction and coal smoke from the engines would have kept much of the vegetation at bay. [3]

The Fatty Lipscomb House as Elma Radnor’s Rooming House:

From left: Gordon Clapp, Kevin Tighe, and Mary McDonnell in a set-dressed dining room.  [1]

Chris Cooper and Mary McDonnell [1]

Kevin Tighe, Will Oldham, and Gordon Clapp. [1]

What today is identified as the Fatty Lipscomb House portrayed the rooming house 35 years ago, the doubled first-flight of the front steps and the front porch doing yeoman's work in the film.  Some of the interior rooms were cleaned up and dressed to portray the dining room and occupied lodging; a volunteer at Thurmond expressed mild surprise describing the set dressers putting up fresh wallpaper then spraying it all down for age!  Yep, I thought, that’s the way it works (and I would know).

The Lipscomb place in 2021, the front yard much encroached by trees. [3]

Sayles reported that there were maybe 50 or 60 people still living there in 1986 during principal photography, and that the crew did work with them as they moved about, keeping them informed of when modern cars needed to be moved and the like.  The production also coordinated closely with CSX to avoid any diesel powered-coal drags driving through while the cast walked around on the tracks -- and they did walk around on the tracks a good deal.

Baldwin-Felts “security” arriving for the climactic show-down.  In the background are the Depot and the C&O rail-and-road trestle.

[1] Screen shots of the Warner Bros. (U.S.) 1987 release Matewan as captured from YouTube.  Most of these shots are from an upload in 2020, and at least when I watched it, the sound left much to be desired.  An HD upload in 2021 is also on YouTube -- the Criterion Collection release -- which looks to be of better quality, and was the source of some updated shots.  All of the screen shots were given minor processing for better static viewing.

[2] Jet Lowe photograph of Thurmond for the Library of Congress’ Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Survey, 1988; from the Library of Congress Prints & Photograhs Online Catalog.

[3] Photos by R. Jake Wood, 2021.

Matewan on imdb.com.

Movie train crossing the New River on the C&O Thurmond trestle. [1]

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Blu-ray Review: When a Stranger Calls

1979's When a Stranger Calls features one of the most effective opening sequences in horror history; one to which Scream owes a debt of gratitude. Teenager Jill (Carol Kane, Addams Family Values) is babysitting kids that are sleeping upstairs when she begins receiving mysterious phone calls asking if she has checked on the children. She eventually learns that - spoiler alert - the calls are coming from inside the house.

It's a play on the classic urban legend, which had already been committed to film five years prior in Black Christmas, but When a Stranger Calls' sequence is 20 minutes of unrelenting suspense. The film also ends on a strong note, reintroducing Jill years later as a mother herself, only to be greeted by the familiar voice once again.

So why isn't When a Stranger Calls held in higher regard? As it turns out, what remains in between those sequences of brilliance is a bit of a slog. An opening as effective as this one is virtually impossible to top, but certainly director/co-writer Fred Walton (April Fool's Day) and co-writer Steve Feke (Mac and Me) could have done something more interesting that a plodding midsection that's derivative of Halloween but with more procedural elements.

The killer, identified as Curt Duncan (Tony Beckley, The Italian Job), is declared insane, only to escape from the mental hospital after seven years of institutionalization. Living as a vagrant, he soon takes a liking to a woman who shows him compassion - or pity - Tracy Fuller (Colleen Dewhurst, The Dead Zone). Rather than focusing on the victim or even the killer, Walton curiously opts to spend more time with detective-turned-private investigator John Clifford (Charles Durning, The Sting), who has been hired to find Duncan.

When a Stranger Calls has been reissued on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment. It's the same bare-bones disc that was previously available, but now it's packaged in a VHS-inspired slipcase featuring the original artwork. The presentation is solid for a dark, low-budget film from four decades ago, featuring Donald Peterman's (Men in Black, Addams Family Values) first major work as director of photography and a score by Dana Kaproff (The Big Red One, Empire of the Ants).

When a Stranger Calls is available now on Blu-ray via Mill Creek Entertainment.

[brandonraykirk]

Native American #history at Big Beaver Creek near #Beckley #WV #Appalachia (at Beaver, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKdIeo5HeIGSe9xSkJOcHPBSh9oadfFrwHLjsg0/?igshid=1aui9w4ph8otu

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HAD A GREAT 1500+ MILE RIDE TO WEST “BY GOD” VIRGINA, VIA TOLEDO, CLEVELAND, THEN FINALLY BECKLEY/PAINT CREEK, WV....

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💾 ►►► DOWNLOAD FILE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The Cheat River is a mile-long tributary of the Monongahela River in eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Via the Ohio River, the Cheat and Monongahela are part of the Mississippi River watershed. The magnificent Cheat River flows from five major tributaries, known as the “Forks of the Cheat”, which originate in the rugged Monongahela National Forest. Located in Albright, in North Central West Virginia, the Cheat Canyon section of the Cheat River is West Virginia's premier springtime Class V whitewater run. The Cheat River is amazing! This river canyon is full of great rapids and we loved the guides on our trip. I can't stress how important it is to go with. The Cheat River in West Virginia is again a haven for whitewater rafting and smallmouth bass fishing after years of Clean Water Act funding. Its 1,square-mile basin drains parts of southwestern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and, in West Virginia , parts of central Preston County , western Tucker County , eastern Randolph County , northern Pocahontas County , and eastern Monongalia County. The Cheat River is a popular whitewater rafting stream in spring. Thousands of rafters and kayakers run its lower course when snowmelt produces highly technical rapids. The Cheat is a popular fishing stream throughout the year. The character of the two forks or the Cheat River contrast strongly: the drainage of the Black Fork and its Dry Fork are fan-shaped, and that of the the Shavers Fork is long and narrow. The river is impounded as Lake Lynn, colloquially known as Cheat Lake, near the end of its course. Much of the upper Cheat and its forks drain the Monongahela National Forest. In , the Dunkards, a religious sect, were the first Europeans to settle on the Cheat River. They established a village near Kingwood, West Virginia. An iron industry along the lower reach of the river supported roughly 3, settlers at Cheat Neck Cheat Lake and Ices Ferry in the early 19th century. As a result of pollution from coal mining, poor timber management, and construction of a private dam built in , fish had all but disappeared from the lower course of the river by the s. The Cheat was considered the eighth most endangered river in the United States during the s. Read also: The day they "knocked a hole" in the Cheat River. From sources to mouth, the following select towns and villages are located on or near the Cheat River. Information on lodging, dining, and recreation on and near the lower Cheat River, downstream of Rowlesburg, may be found in our guide to travel in the Monongahela Valley Region in northern West Virginia. Similar information regarding its upper course may be found the the Allegheny Highlands Region. Log in to leave a comment. Wednesday, October 5, Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Statement. Password recovery. West Virginia Explorer. Downtown Beckley getting even odder, say fair organizers. Peculiar rock face near Ripley, W. Remarkable stone face attracting curious in New River Gorge. Scenic parkway explores some of West Virginia's highest peaks. Farm-to-Table dinners return to W. State Parks. Blackwater Falls visitors can expect far more in Tucker County. Promotion of high bridge, continental divide gains support. Despite rain, state fair among most successful ever. Monument raised to memory of well-known goat in West Virginia. West Virginia tourism releases fall foliage map. Did the first teddy bear come from West Virginia? Mystery surrounds tale of frontier slave who defended fort. Legend of beast resurfaces near Fireco, West Virginia. Horse Creek Ghost said to foretell the demise of presidents. Capon Springs offers percent state resident discount. Glade Springs resort suspends operations until April Beckley tourism leaders welcome Hilton hotel, growth. Capon Springs celebrates 88th season by changing very little. New River Gorge ranked second among fall fishing destinations. State reminds hunters to buy stamps before archery season Saturday. Early bear gun seasons launch in September in W. Cheat River. A quiet pool on the Cheat River belies a whitewater run on its lower section. Read also: The day they "knocked a hole" in the Cheat River Cheat River Communities From sources to mouth, the following select towns and villages are located on or near the Cheat River. Stay Connected. Latest Articles. Scenic parkway explores some of West Virginia's highest peaks October 4, Monongahela Forest officials stress caution during Ian September 30, New River Gorge ranked second among fall fishing destinations September 27, September 24, All rights reserved.

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Metal Carport On Unlevel Ground

Metal Carport On Unlevel Ground

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Beckley Creek Park

[502zon3y]

Trail at Beckley Creek. Louisville Ky