west virginians? what the heck are you? (Charleston, Huntington: to buy, taxation)

[mkfarnam]

Are the people of W.VA. allowed to carry fire arms? (with a permit of course)

[NVplumber]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

Are the people of W.VA. allowed to carry fire arms? (with a permit of course)

Absolutley! The Second ammendment is alive and well in WV and they have reciprocity with a lot of other states. (My home state of NV included)

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by NVplumber

Absolutley! The Second ammendment is alive and well in WV and they have reciprocity with a lot of other states. (My home state of NV included)

Same with OK.

[snorpus]

I think someone posted on here a while ago that WV's flag is one of the few (maybe the only) to have remained unchanged since statehood.

And I like the response... we're not northern, or southern, or middle-atlantic, we're Mountaineers.

[David Kennedy]

That is a tobacco plant under the arm of the buckskin clad hunter...Virginia was big on tobacco...almost nobody plants it any more...takes a lot of care...Virginia Bright Leaf and Burley...hung in the rafters of the workshop to dry.
Grandpa would have me auger-drill a hole in the maple trees and plug in the leaf tobacco...cork it, let it age and then drill it out...pretty rough...was an old fashioned way of curing...

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by kenstan

The State Flag says we are Mountioneers

No it says Montani. We must be Romans...or latinos.

[vec101]

Originally Posted by David Kennedy

That is a tobacco plant under the arm of the buckskin clad hunter...Virginia was big on tobacco...almost nobody plants it any more...takes a lot of care...Virginia Bright Leaf and Burley...hung in the rafters of the workshop to dry.
Grandpa would have me auger-drill a hole in the maple trees and plug in the leaf tobacco...cork it, let it age and then drill it out...pretty rough...was an old fashioned way of curing...

There is, or at least was a few years ago, a tobacco farm in Putnam County - had surprised me to see it. TY for the info - now that makes sense. I had always thought it was too cold here.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by David Kennedy

That is a tobacco plant under the arm of the buckskin clad hunter...Virginia was big on tobacco...almost nobody plants it any more...takes a lot of care...Virginia Bright Leaf and Burley...hung in the rafters of the workshop to dry.
Grandpa would have me auger-drill a hole in the maple trees and plug in the leaf tobacco...cork it, let it age and then drill it out...pretty rough...was an old fashioned way of curing...

That's very interesting, Id like to read up on that.

They still sell Virginia Slims.

[vec101]

We had been talking about moonshine on here - yesterday hubby came home with a jar a friend gave him. We think it's a great conversational piece.

Good grief - making hooch must be MUCH more common in WV than I ever imagined.

[Buzz123]

Didn't the laws change so that it 's OK to make alcoholic beverages for your personal consumption? I have a friend from Clarksburg who lives in Colorado now. He makes a lot of good wine out of various things like prickly pear, etc., and the best is his dandelion wine. Enormous dandelions grow wild in the Rockies.