I’d like to think that my affinity for West Virginia, and for its incredible landscapes and avifauna, is in my blood. Buckhannon, West Virginia, is the ancestral home of the Zickefooses, where my great grandfather Benjamin Zickefoose started our line of Zickefoose teachers, physicists, policemen, engineers, writers, and storytellers. Our family lit out for the […]
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Fall begins in the Appalachians silently. The nights are crisp, and there is frost in the morning air. The harvest moon rises each night, the leaves of the deciduous trees begin their fall explosion of colors, the apples are ripe in the orchards, the corn yellow in the fields, the wild grapes purple on the
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There’s a spruce-clad knob located in the mountains of West Virginia, 4,445 feet above sea level, that is unusual in various ways. It’s Gaudineer Knob on Shavers Mountain, a part of the Cheat Mountain range, and named for Don Gaudineer, a forest ranger in the Monongahela National Forest, who lost his life 1936 trying to
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