Post-Christmas Thoughts Here it is, December 26, and you survived yet another expensive holiday. Do you feel relieved, or are you one of those people[Read More…]
Weekly Features
THE WEEKLY SHAMAN
As a follow up to my article on the Icelandic Christmas demon known as the Gryla, I decided to do a follow up on her[Read More…]
Historically Speaking
DODDRIDGE COUNTY VETERANS Names that were missed are now recognized. While identifying and researching the history of Doddridge County’s Veterans, I tried so hard not[Read More…]
THE WEEKLY SHAMAN
Obviously, we tend to associate ghosts more with Halloween than Christmas but the belief in the return of the ancestral dead during the winter solstice[Read More…]
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING
DODDRIDGE COUNTY VETERANS Names that were missed recognized. While identifying and researching the history of Doddridge County’s Veterans, I tried so hard not to miss[Read More…]
DODDRIDGE COUNTY VETERANS Christmas Tree – Part 2 H-Z D.C. Historical Society has erected the Veterans Christmas Tree in the D. C. Courthouse again this[Read More…]
The Weekly Shaman
Veterans Tree of Honor
In 2019, the County Commission approved the Historical Society’s request to place a Christmas tree (see above) in the hallway of the Courthouse with[Read More…]
THE WEEKLY SHAMAN
Obviously, I love to write about Yuletide ghosts and goblins so much that I rarely come upon a new one. In Iceland there is the[Read More…]
THE WEELY SHAMAN
In Russia Morozko or Father Frost was considered responsible for the more intense winter storms and cause snow to fall. Whatever he touches with his[Read More…]