WHEELING – YWCA Wheeling and West Liberty University art students have partnered to tell the stories of crime victims through mannequins and QR codes. This week is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, and 12 mannequins crafted by the students have been placed at locations in downtown Wheeling, Marshall County and Wetzel County. Alongside each mannequin […]
George Bernard Shaw once said, “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” And yet we live in an era where it seems everyone’s mind is made up about everything. If our politics seems broken, it is not because we have stopped speaking; rather, that we have stopped […]
WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) – There’s a new one-of-a-kind experience now open in the Ohio Valley that will transport you to other cultures. While you learn about history, you’ll also be solving a mystery. “The Last Queen of Hawaii” escape room is now open in Wheeling. It’s the first in a series of Culturally Specific Escape […]
Wheeling, W.Va. (WTRF) – YWCA Wheeling is teaming up with Glasseye Worx and Wheeling Heritage to provide a series of culturally specific escape rooms. This will give people an opportunity to participate in escape rooms based on different cultures that exist within local communities. The first escape room is themed after Hawaiian/Polynesian culture, and is […]
WHEELING – The community is invited to come escape to late 19th Century Hawaii, change history, and help the last Hawaiian queen defeat the business forces that destroyed the monarchy. The imprisonment of Liliʻuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii, is the subject of an “escape room” opening for visitors on Monday in the former bookstore […]