2009 West Virginia
Lynn and I went to Marlinton, WV for the first week of August. Marlinton is in Pocahontas County near the Monongahela National Forest, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, several state parks that provided great hiking, and the site of the last major Civil War battle site in West Virginia.
During our week there we had great weather and plenty to do. If our vacation were extended to, say, two weeks, it is not clear I could make that claim.
In addition to the photos in this gallery, there are some panoramas of the West Virginia country side in http://www.alechimwich.com/Other/Panoramas/7091244_MpdwN#476456094_czu6i. These panoramas are perhaps more interesting because of the software I used to create them, AutopanoPro, than for the images themselves.
Read MoreDuring our week there we had great weather and plenty to do. If our vacation were extended to, say, two weeks, it is not clear I could make that claim.
In addition to the photos in this gallery, there are some panoramas of the West Virginia country side in http://www.alechimwich.com/Other/Panoramas/7091244_MpdwN#476456094_czu6i. These panoramas are perhaps more interesting because of the software I used to create them, AutopanoPro, than for the images themselves.
This is where Pearl Buck was born. As a novelist, Pearl Buck won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. You can read more about her at http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Pearl_S_Buck. Her parents were missionaries to China and, therefore, she did not spend much of her childhood at this house.
Now preserved as a museum, the house was built by Pearl Buck's Dutch maternal great grandparents and grandparents (Stultings) in the late 19th Century. They were inventive, highly skilled craftsmen. The house contains many examples of their work.
