Tag: West Virginia

• SMALL TOWNS ROCK – GRAFTON AND PHILIPPI, WEST VIRGINIA

  

  Photo: On the dam trail in Tygart Lake State Park By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social We stumbled upon a unique area in West Virginia. Each year we visit family in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The three hundred miles between them takes us through West Virginia and the New River Gorge, which we’ve visited several…

  P. C. Zick

  July 8, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, Civil War, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Small Town, travel

  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Battle of Philippa, Civil War, Civil War Journal of a Union Soldier, coal country, covered bridge, railroads, United States history, West Virginia

• An Asheville (Mis)Adventure

  I dreaded the three-week trip even as I planned. I worried too much. Lists filled a notebook: To Do, To Pack, The Morning of Departure, To Buy. I checked off items one by one until it was the morning of departure, and that list began to dwindle. Something happened the closer I came to deleting…

  P. C. Zick

  September 9, 2024

  Ramblings of a Writer, travel

  Asheville, hurricanes, journey, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Tallahassee, tornado, travel, Virginia, West Virginia