Traveling 219
- Location: Marlinton, West Virginia
- http://www.traveling219.com
Bringing you stories from rural West Virginia, in the shadow of the Allegheny Mountains. Inspired by the Federal Writers Project, bring the past into the present, and looking toward the future.
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Traveling 219 visited Asa McCain in Oakland, Maryland, where he's worked with the town to restore the beautiful 1890s Victorian-style B&O railroad ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2013
- Length: 04:57
At the turn of the 20th century, this area of West Virginia boasted some of the grandest resorts in the country. The privileged classes would escap...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Just across the border in Maryland, a pair of perfectly matched painted horses grace the entrance to an old barn along the roadside. The story of h...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:00
Go below the surface (literally!) of Route 219 with an Amish farmer, and learn how the road has changed over the years.
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 02:20
The story of Lemuel Chenoweth, a self-taught architect who became one of West Virginia's best-known bridge builders.
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:13
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a glimpse of the exotic and the bizarre to the modest everyday lives of ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:21
During the Great Depression, Ken Hardesty's grandfather was the de-facto bank for the townspeople of Aurora, West Virginia.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 3
A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 1
People who work with Traveling 219
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Jessie Wright-Mendoza (Admin)
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Dan Schultz (Admin)
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