When she enrolled at Penn West California as a nontraditional student, Justina Arena envisioned becoming a meteorologist. The area she’d planned to make her whole career is now just a small part of it — specifically, 551.5 in the Dewey decimal system. Arena began her new job as ...

Kathy McClure still remembers the thrill of being a child climbing the stairs to the children’s section on the second floor of the Eva K. Bowlby Public Library. Her mother would regularly drive her and her four younger siblings from New Freeport to the Waynesburg library. “We lived far ...

African Americans fleeing slavery on the Underground Railroad came north out of Virginia (present day West Virginia) right into Greene and Washington counties - the two counties immediately north of the Mason-Dixon Line - during the years around the Civil War. To explore the history of the ...