Since its debut in 1936, Fiesta Dinnerware has become one of the most collected china products in the world, and Fiesta followers flock to The Homer Laughlin China Company in Newell, West Virginia, to sort through endless bins of not-quite-perfect pieces in the Fiesta “seconds room.”If >>

It’s not surprising that John Sayles filmed his 1987 film “Matewan” in Thurmond, West Virginia. Sayles, a stickler for authenticity, selected Thurmond because the once-prosperous town still looks like the Appalachian coal-mining town it was a century ago. The formerly bustling city, which was booming during >>

Two museums, both surrounded by the carefully groomed lawns and gardens of the Oglebay Resort and Conference Center, tell the story of the area once known as “the gateway to the west” from pioneer days to the early 20th century. The museums sit atop a hill >>

All it takes is one day at the petting zoo for your kids to start begging for a pony.We should warn you — that happens with iron ponies, too. Especially after four days of high revvin’ fun the whole family will enjoy at the fifth annual >>

Elkins, West Virginia, offers several ways to get to the heart of the mid-Atlantic mountain experience. You can literally head to the hills on one of Elkins’ most popular attractions, the New Tygart Flyer. This restored passenger train takes visitors into deep, wooded canyons and across >>

All right, so maybe you’ll never nail a perfect figure eight on the ice. Or a double axel. In fact, you’d be happy just learning how to ice skate for five glorious seconds without winding up on all fours. Never mind your lack of prowess: The >>

“If your friends all jumped off of a bridge, would you follow them?”It’s a rhetorical question, of course, one that countless children have been asked by their mothers, desperate to show the foolishness of blindly following the lead of friends. So, it’s likely that those moms >>

Farming is a lot of work, but it’s also a lot of fun, as visitors to Ridgefield Farm in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, discover. Families flock to this spot, where kids can pretend they’re pirates and run wild through the pumpkin patch. At Ridgefield –– which >>