Arthurdale News

Sept. 7, 2009 FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH: Riding the Line in Arthurdale By Christopher Worth The Packard rumbles down a dirt road on the way to what the car's occupant likes to refer to as "The Grand Experiment." It's a self-sustaining village in the middle of rural Appalachia, founded in the state of West Virginia, and as Eleanor Roosevelt sits ...

A chance to buy a piece of West Virginia history will be available on Saturday, when what is believed to be the state's longest-running grist mill goes on the auction block in this Randolph County community.

Last month Nick Gillespie blogged the saga of Roosevelt, a New Jersey borough that began as a New Deal experimental community.

The 75th annual New Deal Festival ended with a Homecoming luncheon Sunday afternoon.

A Preston County community designed and built for the rural poor is celebrating its 75th anniversary this weekend.

The Arthurdale community was formed in 1933 after Eleanor Roosevelt visited Scott's Run and wanted to give coal miners' families a better way to live during the Great Depression.

Libbey Owens Ford Retirees: will meet at 11 a.m. July 13 for lunch at Shoney's in Kanawha City.

Let's call this week's column odds and ends that have caught my attention but not generated a full-blown column; also known as cleaning my desk off.