Are we religious? I think most people in Hancock and Brooke Counties, as well as the corresponding border counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania would call themselves Christians. When it comes to Hancock and Brooke the number of our residents who profess to being adherents of…
Being somewhat new to this business of writing a newspaper column, I may tend to focus too long on a single subject, or get sidetracked easily. Truthfully, though what I am writing isn’t “news.” I mean it’s not like it happened yesterday. I will leave…
Back to Newell and potteries. As I previously stated the Homer Laughlin Pottery Company (which I may abbreviate here as “HLC”) started out in East Liverpool, Ohio. I have read somewhere that at one time there may have been as many as 300 potteries in…
Related to the development of Newell as a pottery center, perhaps even absolutely required was the Newell Bridge. The toll bridge, which is still in use today, connects East Liverpool with West Virginia just north of Newell. The Bridge is not small. Its total length…
The John Newell who was born near Burgettstown in 1796 and who moved to Pughtown, and had children with Lydia Edie was a man of many talents. He was an early entrepreneur in a manner of speaking. In addition to being a tanner and a…
If you read my column on even a semi-regular basis you know that frequently research for one column leads me to something different, yet related, to write about in upcoming issues. Last week, the statement that Nessly Chapel was the “first Methodist Protestant Church in…
I started practicing law in Hancock County close to fifty years ago. Alright, forty-seven years ago in 1974, to be exact. Most of the time, in that first year or two, I never travelled further from my Weirton office than the Courthouses in New Cumberland…
So why does anyone care that there are Monuments to a Confederate General on the Capitol Grounds in Charleston or in front of the Harrison County Courthouse?Well, replace those monuments with a Nativity Scene at Christmas or a Cross at Easter and it will likely…
Last week I struggled a bit with my column, writing it, relating it to the present and just in general as to its meaning to us in Hancock County, West Virginia. I did a good amount of research because I found the topic interesting. As…