A wealthy widow lived the high life in this Gilded Age country house. Samuel Taylor Suit was many things: a successful whiskey distiller; an honorary Kentucky colonel; and a wealthy, well-connected landowner, businessman and politician. He was also unlucky in love. Samuel Suit’s first wife died in childbirth, and his second wife divorced him after…
Representatives from Google made a stop in Berkeley Springs Monday to speak with middle schoolers about staying safe online. Here at Warm Springs Middle School in Berkeley Springs, 470 sixth, seventh and eighth-graders sit in the bleachers of their gymnasium listening to two representatives from Google.
Restaurants across the state of West Virginia are celebrating restaurant week. Along with special lunch and dinner deals, the Wild, Wonderful West Virginia tourism office also released a list of 101 unique places to dine in the state. One of the lucky features is Lot 12 Public House, an upscale restaurant in Berkeley Springs. “We…
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — Full disclosure right up front: I live here. Have lived here for nearly 40 years. I’ve written so many words about Berkeley Springs that it’s hard to imagine there is any West Virginian not familiar with the country’s first spa, tucked away in that protruding thumb of the state known as…