"A fascinating narrative history..." West Virginia History (Journal); "Sean Duffy's book brings Wheeling's vibrant and diverse heritage to life again." -author George Fetherling

Davis Grubb said it best...

"It was, of course, the financial capital of Wheeling's old German and Anglo-Saxon families which built the great factories, but it was the hands and back, the blood and marrow of the people with the barbaric, unpronounceable names -- Serb names and Czech names-- Polish names -- Hungarian names -- who shoveled the valley full of iron and then gave it their spirit to make it steel.

...Here in the cramped, dun-colored mill homes below and above Wheeling, awaits the human resource from which she may tap the energy of fresh aspiration, new invention and put the novel resourcefulness of her past to the usages of survival. Here dwell the peoples of lasting metal whose steel is the alloy of the hundred cultures and tribes of a vanished Europe. Serb, Croat, Greek, Slovene, Czech, Slovak and Montenegrin and Pole. Their singing tongues lit and ring in myriad babble on the bus to Benwood: voices rise in ‘sprechtgesang’; ―words made music – frail as eggshell, speech as sweet as Bartok folksongs from arid Bohemian plain."

--Davis Grubb, "The Valley of the Ohio," published in Holiday magazine, July, 1960

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Join The Wheeling Family on Small Business Saturday!

Happy Small Business Saturday!

The Wheeling Family (Volumes 1 and 2) is a local oral history collection chock full of stories of families who operated small neighborhood businesses as well as memories of growing up in the wonderful neighborhoods where those businesses served as social centers.
 
The Wheeling Family makes a thoughtful Christmas gift and can be purchased at the following small businesses throughout the Ohio Valley: Wheeling Artisan Center (14th and Main), Word and Music Bookstore at Stratford Springs, Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Fulton, Miklas Meats on Carmel Road, UPS Store on Washington Avenue, Wheeling Hospital Gift Shop, Kroger Mt. de Chantal, and the Grind House Coffee Shop, Main Street, St. Clairsville.
 
Support local businesses and local history!
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Friday, November 9, 2012

Kroger Signings for the Holidays!

I will be at the Kroger Mt de Chantal store on Saturday, November 17 and Saturday December 15 from noon-2 pm and then from 5 to 7 pm on both days, to sign copies of The Wheeling Family Volume II: More Immigrants, Migrants & Neighborhoods.  A great Christmas Gift idea!

ALSO: A limited number of signed copies of The Wheeling Family (both Volume 1 and 2) are now available for purchase at the Ohio County Public Library's circulation desk. One dollar for each copy sold will be donated to the library.
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