History A Winter Meeting at the General Store M Gwinn, December 27, 2025February 5, 2026 “I Will be down on Monday Morning to look at your Walnut Timber” Now, isn’t it something to hold a little piece of 1876 right in your hands? This letter, sent from the mountain air of Paw Paw, West Virginia, takes us back to a cold December morning when a… Continue Reading
History A Quick Note from Paw Paw: The Friendship of W.P. Phillips M Gwinn, December 27, 2025May 2, 2026 “hope you Will not think hard of me” Pull up a chair, friends. I’ve found a little scrap of paper that’s traveled over a hundred years just to tell us a simple story. It’s a single sheet of lined paper, now turned a warm, buttery yellow with age. You can… Continue Reading
History A Winter Wish for the Guinn Children M Gwinn, December 27, 2025May 25, 2026 “if they have Books I think I can advance them this Winter further than they have been yet” Pull up a chair, friends, and take a look at this little treasure from the archives. It is a humble note written back in December of 1873 by a teacher named S…. Continue Reading
History A Handshake Across Time: Mr. Mason’s Lost Horse M Gwinn, December 27, 2025 “You may let me know your expenses and I will send you the money please deliver hous at once and oblige” Pull up a chair, friends, because I’ve come across a real little treasure from our own backyard. It is a letter dated April 9th, 1875, written right here in… Continue Reading
History A Hand-Delivered Promise from Kanawha Falls M Gwinn, December 27, 2025April 29, 2026 “I hope you will not get out of patience with me, do you still want any goods if so please let me know” Pull up a chair and gather ’round, friends, because I’ve found something truly special tucked away in the archives. It’s a modest little scrap of history from… Continue Reading
History A Helping Hand from Blue Sulphur Springs M Gwinn, December 27, 2025February 19, 2026 “you had better not buy anny as they have gon down to a low figure and I cant buy any more” There is something truly special about holding a piece of history in your hands, like this little note from Blue Sulphur Springs dated October 23, 1875. This handwritten treasure,… Continue Reading
History A Treasury from Blue Sulphur Springs: A Hand-Written Promise from 1875 M Gwinn, December 27, 2025May 16, 2026 “pleas attend to the matter an have the dee Readdy by the March cort so that I can get them when I com out” Well hello there, neighbors. Pull up a chair while I share a little piece of our local history that just landed on my desk. It is… Continue Reading
History A Stained Scrap of Paper and a Big Decision in Blue Sulphur Springs M Gwinn, December 27, 2025July 6, 2026 “I have all but yours now but they all have to have the money that their lots bring pleas send it rite away and oblige” Pull up a chair, friends, because I have found a real treasure tucked away from our local past. It is a letter from October 1874,… Continue Reading
History A Christmas Eve Note from Blue Sulphur Springs M Gwinn, December 27, 2025June 8, 2026 Mr Labin Gwin Sir you will pleas meet Me at fayett Cort Hous on the 28th of the Preasent Month Well now, pull up a chair and let me tell you about a little piece of our history that just came across my desk. It is a humble letter written… Continue Reading
History A Penny Saved and a Word from the Women: A Lesson from 1874 M Gwinn, December 27, 2025July 3, 2026 “the first payment two heave for our purse & another our women folkes think that it is two mutch out of the way” Step back in time with me for a moment to a spring day in May of 1874. I was just looking through some old papers from Alderson… Continue Reading