The museum is outside Hartford on the Van Buren County Fairgrounds and occupies a building that once served as the county ...

Bob Enoch, president of the Wood County Historical Society, and former West Virginia University at Parkersburg Professor of History Bernie Allen (who participated via Skype) did a presentation ...

PARKERSBURG — The Poorhouse Rag, a literary review published by West Virginia University at Parkersburg, will celebrate the release of its inaugural edition with a reception and campus activities this ...

Nancy Zimpher, new chancellor of the State University of New York, promised to visit all 64 SUNY schools within her first 100 days on the job. Her 60th stop was Friday. It was not quite like any other ...

Viewed from Onondaga Road, the project seems to be a typical excavation. Scattered workers move in and out of mounds of dirt, near a shuttered brick hospital that once served residents of the old ...

In 1804 “The site of the Public Common (Penn Park) was decided upon as an eligible spot for the location of the county almshouse,” George R. Prowell writes in his 1907 “History of York County.” ...

President Obama hopes to be saved by a euphemism. He is wagering on the power of the word “investment.” It sounds so market oriented and cutting edge in contrast to its more pedestrian, politically ...

Everyone hopes that, after decades of hard work, they'll retire rich enough to spend decades more enjoying the fruits of their labor. But if you ask financial guru Suze Orman, the average American is ...

Linking to the New York Daily News makes me feel a little icky, but this was too good to pass up: LAPD Commissioner William Bratton is leaving to join security company Altegrity. Why? Well, for the ...

UNDERHILL – A beloved Chittenden County pie enterprise has gone through big changes of late, but is still doing big business under new ownership in a new location. For such a small business, Poorhouse ...