I'm writing a story set in West Virginia, and I already know quite a bit about the area from visting and reading a bit about Appalachian history ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story set in Ronceverte, West Virginia, sometime during or after the 1970s, and want to use the town's Catholic church as the main stage ( Read more... )

In Jane Yolen's book Take Joy, she says this: "In my husband's home county of West Virginia, they say water is pure after it has flowed over twenty-one stones." I liked this idea and have wanted to use "Twenty-One Stones" as the title of a poetry collection ( Read more... )

Hey. I've tried looking for "history of summer vacations," "summer vacations 1899," "school year 1899" on google and no luck, so I was hoping someone might know this. I'm helping a friend with his book, and he has a flashback of sorts written featuring a boy getting exciting about his summer vacation and going on from there. The scene is set in ( Read more... )

All right, in my story, the main character is a lapsed Catholic trying to get back into it in his new hometown. It's in a West Virginia, USA town, relatively small population, and as I don't have much of a Catholic background, I was hoping for some details: What are the typical hours for a Catholic Church, like, access-wise? Are there typical hours ( Read more... )

In a story I'm writing, a cop moves from New York and starts working for a police station in a small West Virginia town, populated 2,000.  Does anyone know the treatment for cops in this situation?  Or any details concerning the average day for a cop in a small town?  For example, starting shifts, the work schedule, even how many other cops would ( Read more... )

Setting: early 1970s [1970-1974], West Virginia, North-central area, at a rather large University ( Read more... )

One of the characters of a novel I'm writing is from deep, rural West Virginia. His family would be called hillbillies if his brother wouldn't shoot you for it. I'm setting a scene where a friend of his has just entered their big, ramshackle house in the woods for the first time. The friend is from the Northeast, also a country boy per se, but not ( Read more... )