by Laura Seeber | Aug 27, 2015 | Beyond Marietta
My last few posts I have discussed some of my favorite places to hunt for fossils in the states of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. While reviewing the various information, I realized that I was forgetting one major thing. How the heck do you tell the difference...
by Darla Brannan | Aug 25, 2015 | Beyond Marietta, Education, Good News About Town
The Mid-Ohio Valley is a wonderful place to live. I have been living in the Mid-Ohio Valley for all of my 27 years. I have had the pleasure of being born in, and had a chance to grow up in, Marietta. A few years ago, in 2013, my husband and I decided to buy a home...
by Christiane Marshall | Aug 17, 2015 | Beyond Marietta, Travel
During the past 30 days, we’ve made two visits to The Wilds! Not too far from Marietta, The Wilds is a conservation center in Cumberland, Ohio, based on a 10,000-acre reserve donated by AEP after reclaiming the strip-mined area. The organization has ties...
by Laura Seeber | Aug 12, 2015 | Beyond Marietta, Travel, Way Beyond Marietta
In last week’s blog post, I described a few localities in Ohio where someone could look for and possibly find some amazing fossils. Well, based on the feedback I received following that post, I decided to go ahead and share some of my favorite locales for West...
by Laura Seeber | Aug 6, 2015 | Beyond Marietta
It may sound quite nerdy, but one of my favorite pastimes as a child growing up in the western Pennsylvania and southeastern Ohio areas was to go rock hounding and fossil hunting with my friends. Something about the chance to discover something “new” (as in a newly...
by Christiane Marshall | Jul 12, 2015 | Washington County
Many years ago in the town where I grew up, there was a train track behind our home. My parents bought that house because it has an extra-long yard for planting a large garden. My father cleared out brush and poison ivy in his speedo. (Not kidding.) It was the closest...
