CULTURE & LIFESTYLE
Photos: Travis Tritt Performs At Mountain Health Arena
Travis Tritt and Chris Janson brought their "The Can't Miss Tour" to the Mountain Health Arena in downtown Huntington, West Virginia, Friday night. War Hippies was the opening act. Photos by Joshua Murdock below. [gallery...
Photos: Walker Hayes At The Mountain Health Arena
Walker Hayes performed at the Mountain Health Arena in downtown Huntington Saturday night with opening act Parmalee. Photos by Joshua Murdock. [gallery link="file"...
Pretty And Poised Comes To Downtown Huntington
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Pretty and Poised, a new women’s boutique, is now open in downtown Huntington at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 10th Street across from Pullman Square. Specializing in women’s clothing and accessories, the downtown Huntington location is...
Huntington Zoo & Aquarium Coming Soon To Huntington Area
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The dream of a great number of Huntingtonians over many years is finally coming true as a new Huntington Zoo & Aquarium is coming soon to 58 acres west of the city in rural Wayne County. The Huntington Zoo & Aquarium (HZA) is a...
National College Colors Day 2022 Set For September 2
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. National College Colors Day 2022 will be on Friday, September 2. College Colors Day is all about wearing your college team’s colors and apparel loud and proud and showcasing them on social media using the hashtag #CollegeColorsDay....
Marshall University Rebrands Maniacs As The Stampede For Fall 2022
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marshall University announced Monday that the official student club of the University will be rebranded as “The Stampede” and is now housed under the Big Green Scholarship Foundation. Formerly known as the “Marshall Maniacs,” and the...
Marshall Students Return To Campus For First Day Of Classes 2022 (PHOTOS)
Students returned to the campus of Marshall University Monday for the first day of classes for the 2022-23 academic year.
Huntington Area CVB Announces Staff Changes For 2022
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The Huntington Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) announced two staff changes on Monday. Former Sales Manager Anna Adkins has been promoted to Director of Sales and Marketing, and the former Assistant Manager of the Red Caboose...
West Virginia Building Penthouse Opens For Booking
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. After much work and financial investment, the Penthouse at the top of West Virginia’s tallest residential building is now booking for overnight stays. Occupying the entire 15th floor of the West Virginia Building at 910 4th Avenue, the...
Marshall University Alumni Announce 2022 Homecoming Theme
Marshall University proudly extends a warm invitation toward its alumni, family, and friends back to campus for its 2022 Homecoming celebration October 29. This year's theme, Fun in the Sun, is a nod to Marshall's first year in the Sun Belt Conference, and plays up...
Heritage Station: A Downtown Huntington Destination
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. For my older readers and those who haven’t been to Huntington for a while, when you read “Heritage Station,” you may think I’m referring to a restaurant at the corner of 11th Street and Veterans Memorial Boulevard. However, since 2009,...
Marshall College High School: A Legacy Written In Green & White
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marshall University is a familiar name in higher education throughout West Virginia, but did you know Marshall also once had a high school? Marshall College High School, also known as Jenkins Laboratory School, was a high school on the...
13 Photos of Huntington Then and Now (2022)
Compiled by Aaron-Michael Fox. A collection of photos of downtown Huntington, WV from the past and present, matched. This is a follow-up to an article from 2018, see the original article HERE. 1. Marshall University 2. Cabell County Courthouse 3. The Hotel Frederick...
Marshall University Freshmen Move In To Start Fall Welcome Week 2022
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. First-year Marshall University students kicked off the fall 2022 Week of Welcome by moving into their new residence halls on Monday and Tuesday. This week, students will attend various welcome events around campus starting on Weds., Aug....
Diamond Teeth Mary: West Virginia’s Queen of the Blues
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. West Virginia-native “Diamond Teeth” Mary Smith McClain was a blues and gospel singer as well as a vaudeville entertainer. Her career spanned 85 years, from 1915-2000. Born Mary Smith in Huntington, WV in 1902, Mary was the half-sister of...
2010s: A Decade In Pictures
As the 2010s come to a close, we thought we'd take a look back on the decade through the photo lens of Aaron-Michael Fox. There's a video slideshow set to the music of Tyler Childers, and a photo gallery below. PHOTO GALLERY: [gallery link="file" size="full"...
River City Leather Brings Handmade Leather Goods To Downtown Huntington
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Downtown Huntington, West Virginia, is quickly becoming a regional hub for local business of all types. The latest to join the fold is River City Leather, which is located in the Progress Building at 418 Eighth Street across from the...
Appalachian In Chicago: Finding My Charleston Girl
Written by Cody E. Lambert. Footnotes at the bottom of the page. On the tail of Tyler Childers' first Grammy nomination, the whole Huntington-Tristate area is celebrating. Its a culmination (but not completion) of years of work from a very talented local artist. A guy...
DoubleTree by Hilton Opens On Third Avenue
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The building that is now home to Huntington's new DoubleTree hotel has been a familiar structure to residents of the Jewel City since it first went up in 1973. The hotel, which occupies the entire 1000 block of the south side of Third...
16 Photos of WVSP Cars Through The Years
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The West Virginia State Police are routinely recognized by national media outlets for having some of the best looking cruisers in the United States. Even though the WVSP doesn't technically have a detachment in downtown Huntington, they...
CoWorks Offers Dynamic Workspace For Entrepreneurs
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. CoWorks, located in the JP Morgan Chase Building at Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street, was founded in May of 2018 by Bryan Shaw and Jeremy Turner with an eye toward creating flexible office space for start-up entrepreneurs. Co-working spaces...
West Virginia Brewing Company 1899-1971
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Any Huntington old-timer (and many West Virginians at large) should remember the old West Virginia Brewing Company, also known as the Fesenmeier Brewery that once occupied a large section of Central City in Huntington’s West End....
Huntington Police Department: 147 Years of Excellence
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Since 1872, the Huntington Police Department has worked hard to earn what is now a solid reputation as the premier urban law enforcement agency in our region (that's not me talking, that's the FBI, the DoJ, AAA, and numerous other...
23 Amazing Photos From Huntington’s Past
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Huntington, West Virginia, has had an eventful history. Most of it has been pretty well documented, from the 1937 Flood, to the 1970 pane crash, to the ensuing movie about the rebuilding years that have so far culminated in two national...
12 Reasons Bison Are Awesome
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marco the Bison, the beloved mascot for Marshall University, is one of the most popular in college sports (winning the National Mascot Championship in 1992) and a familiar feature to MU fans at all athletic and community...
Huntington Boy Makes Good To Become Police Chief
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. On June 1, 2018 at the Municipal Courtroom at the Huntington Police Department, native Huntingtonian Captain Hank Dial will be sworn-in as the next Chief of Huntington Police. This represents the culmination of a distinguished 27 year...
Boutiques On The Avenues Present Mother’s Day Escape
The Boutiques on the Avenues present a "Mother's Day Escape Pop-Up" on May 10, 2018. The event will be an evening to spoil the mother in your life. Get your ladies together for some much deserved pampering. Tickets include a glass of wine from The Bodega, boutique...
Boutiques on the Avenues: Showcasing Huntington’s Feminine Side
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. “Boutiques on the Avenues,” the unofficial name for a group of female-owned local businesses, has decided to get together to promote downtown Huntington’s feminine side. The idea for the promotion came about during a meeting of downtown...
Redevelopment Comes to the old Elks Lodge
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. For more than 100 years, the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks Lodge has been a familiar structure on the Old Main Corridor. But now, that structure is getting a facelift, and a heart transplant, and liposuction, and…you know...
Hal Greer: Marshall’s Trailblazer
Written by Justin Prince. The city of Huntington, West Virginia, has several connections to black history in America. One of the more illustrious ones, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History Month, was graduated from and later principal of Douglass High...
Carter G. Woodson: Father of Black History, Native Huntingtonian
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson is known as the "Father of Black History" for his role in founding what is now Black History Month and the seeds for many of his later-life insights would be sewn right here in the Jewel City of Huntington, West...
New Shops Open in The Market on Third Avenue
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The new downtown Market, located across the street from the Holiday Inn, is the creation of downtown development firm Capital Venture Corporation who have already successfully repurposed several other historic buildings downtown. The new...
Huntington Wins Best Town Transformation 2018
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Even though Huntington has been dealt some difficulties of late, it keeps meeting those challenges head-on. In fact, WV Living Magazine just gave the Jewel City the title of “Best Town Transformation” in West Virginia for 2018. The...
Merle Norman To Open New Store On Fourth Avenue
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The retail options in downtown Huntington continue to expand with the addition of Merle Norman Cosmetics at 907 Fourth Avenue. The location was most recently home to Fro Yo House, a frozen yogurt shop, and Tropical Moon Frozen Yogurt...
Heritage Station: The Jewel City’s Hidden Gem
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. For my older readers and those who haven’t been to Huntington for a while, when you read “Heritage Station,” you may think I’m referring to a restaurant at the corner of Eleventh Street and Veterans Memorial Boulevard. Since 2009,...
14 Photos of Huntington Then and Now
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Anybody who knows me or follows one of my pages Vintage Huntington or Vintage West Virginia on Facebook knows that I am a collector of vintage Huntington pictures. So I thought I'd take the next step and match a few old pictures with...
12 Colorized Photos That Will Change How You See Huntington’s Past
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The debate over colorizing photos has raged for as long as the technology has existed to do so. Some people love them, some people hate them. I tend to fall into the first group as a well-done colorizing job can breathe new life into a...
These 17 Photos Show How Bad The 1937 Flood Was
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The “Great” Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and early February of 1937. It is arguably the worst natural disaster in the history of the Ohio River Valley. The river had flooded many times in its history, but none of...
Guest Column: Find Your Fire
Written by Alan Brown. If you met me, you wouldn’t think that I would be your typical candidate for mental illness, at least that would be most people’s assumption. I was the popular kid in school, had good grades, a great home and family life. On paper, I should...
Going Back To West Virginia
Written by Henry Culvyhouse. West Virginia is my home. I love my mountains, my people, my streams, my towns. It’s the state where I learned how to tell stories, how to live, how to work, and how to love. And most of us can say the same. But for many millennial West...
City To Relaunch Open To All Campaign
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The City of Huntington will be hosting a relaunch event for the city’s “Open to All” campaign at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 inside City Hall. A joint effort of the Mayor’s Diversity Advisory Committee and the Mayor’s LGBT Advisory...
2018—Will It Be Huntington’s Best Year Yet?
Written by Steve Williams, Mayor of the City of Huntington. Even though a new year has arrived, for some of us it may feel as if we have just welcomed 2017 instead of 2018. Hopefully, as we anticipate the coming year, we are filled with a healthy...
All Aboard: Huntington’s Streetcars
Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Today, the Tristate Transit Authority’s historically-styled “trolley buses” are a familiar sight around Huntington with the clanging sound of their bells filling the downtown air every day as they warn passers-by of their approach. But...
Earl Ward: Silver Memories
Written by Randy Yohe. For her husband’s company Christmas party that chilly December night, young bride Jackie Ward had a new green dress to surprise him. But Earl Ward never got to see that pretty green dress. The budding photographer normally worked in WSAZ's...
Rare Drops: Vintage Video Game Central
Written by Henry Culvyhouse. Break out the acid washed jeans and the scrunchies. Let’s talk the 90s and one of its biggest battles: The Console Wars. Many millennials and Generation Xers more than likely recall the battle between Sega and Nintendo for video game...
The Jewel City At Sea: USS Huntington
Written by Henry Culvyhouse. The closest the city of Huntington gets to the sea is the Ohio River. So it might sound strange that the U.S. Navy, known as a protector of the world’s salt waters, would name a ship after a city in landlocked West Virginia. But in 1916,...
How To Buy And Smoke A Cigar
Editor’s note: Cigar smoking has been linked to several types of cancers. This article is not intended to promote tobacco use. It is intended to offer a tutorial for those readers who are old enough to smoke and who have considered the risks and would still like to...
Guest Column: How Safe Is Too Safe? Comedy In Huntington
Nestled in the heart of Trump Country, Huntington is in the center of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio—three states that went deep red in 2016. But Huntington has a Democratic city government and a blooming music and arts scene, and there is a tinge of urban liberalism in this the city of 50,000 people. And while I’m far from a conservative, as a comedian I’ve seen a chill in free speech, thanks in part to the progressive ideals of the “safe space.”
