ROCK CREEK, WV (WVNS) — From a young age we are asked what we want to be when we grow up. Lesle Wickline, Guidance Counselor for Marsh Fork Elementary School said she wants her students to have an array of options to choose from. “Kids at this age are so impressionable, so if you can […]
The Beckley Area Foundation (BAF) Board of Directors has awarded $33,557.45 to 55 projects, supporting 44 teachers at 17 schools across Raleigh County, in its Students First program.
Circling Eloh: A Meditation
First the war, thousands of miles to the east. No. First other, older wars with forgotten names, unhousing and unhoming the Apache Nation. The Arapaho Nation. The Cheyenne Nation. The Pueblo. The Shoshone. The Comanche. The Kiowa. The Navajo. There is a river run red, there is a lake, there is a world on fire who can never be regained. How can we reclaim when name and place are lost? When even ponderosa and lodgepole are uprooted for maple and elm?
There is water. There are a hundred years. There is not enough water. There are fifty years. There is the town of Stout, and then there is not. First the young couples leave for Fort Collins, over the hill, or for Wyoming, forty miles north. Then the families. Then the Bureau of Reclamation comes with letters and phone calls and men in uniforms and there is no choice left but to move. Some bring their homes, some fall into sheds provided five miles to the south.