A West Virginia School Of Excellence

Papoo Crofton transferred from Ohio Northern University to the prestigious Foreign Service School at Georgetown University in 1927, where he drove a cab to put himself through Law School. He went home to West Virginia and was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Wood County in 1936. He was a union man, a champion of the underdog […]

The Whiskey Rebellion (Part 2): The Dreadful Night

In 1781, Hugh Henry Brackenridge left the relatively cosmopolitan city of Philadelphia to ‘make his bones’ in what was known as The Wilderness. He settled at The Forks (where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio) – or  present day Pittsburgh. He lived through the first open and armed rebellion in the […]