The Elk River Inn and Restaurant, located in the town of Slatyfork near Snowshoe Mountain Resort, had a simple start with owner Gil Willis offering rooms for skiers in 1980. Gil had moved to his family-owned farm from the Washington, D.C. area two years earlier, caught the skiing bug and never looked back. His future wife, Mary, was also a skier and had visited the area before they were married in 1984.
By Mike Patrick For the last 100 years, the experience of being a Boy Scout has had a positive, lasting effect on the lives of more than 110 million young people. The Boy Scouts of America provides the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people to be,…
By David Asam
Shepherdstown is the oldest town in West Virginia with the first settlement recorded in 1730. Thomas Shepherd obtained a land grant in 1734 and was soon followed by other settlers, many of which were German. There was a German school in Shepherdstown as early as 1762 and the main street to this day is named German Street.
By Robert Rogers
I have always loved food and enjoyed cooking. I felt that being a chef was an honest and honorable profession that would provide great opportunities and a chance to work with and please others. I was classically trained at Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts in Pittsburgh before I landed my extern at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, the longest running five-star five-diamond resort
By Steve Paradis With its quiet streets, its scenic vistas overlooking the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers and its historic sense of place, Harpers Ferry is a great walking town. I am reminded of that daily as I commute on foot from my home in next-door Bolivar to my office at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. My…
By André Baskin
Laury’s Restaurant was opened in 1979 by Otis Laury and purchased by the Mirzahkani brothers in 1993, who then moved the restaurant in 1995 to its current location in the C&O Railroad Depot on MacCorkle Avenue in Charleston.