Andrew's world West Virginia history

Usually this blog is all about historical West Virginia but today we have some current events to discuss. You probably heard about Bam Margera making a random stop in Charleston the other day. I'm not even sure how many people saw him, he just posted on his Instagram that he got his morning skate session in Charleston, WV, along with a pic of him at the skate park under the interstate. This is huge to me because I've been a huge fan of his since the early days of jackass in 1999 or 2000. I'm honestly surprised that Brandon AKA Bam isn't here more often actually, since he lives one state up (Pennsylvania). So, now theres only one question - what will he do next? (Whatever the fuck I want) Viva la bam fans will get it. In other news, actress Halle Berry celebrated her birthday in the mountain state. I saw on Instagram (how did we survive before IG?) that Rock City Cakes made her birthday cake. What an honor

     The other day, I ran across a story that I wanted  to believe. I even shared it on my personal Facebook because I was so excited about it. Apparently, somebody had asked an AI powered search engine (not too sure which one) what the most haunted place in Lincoln County, WV was. It told them a story about the Lincoln County courthouse in Hamlin being haunted by the ghost of a former sheriff who was murdered in the building. Now when I read that, it seemed exciting, boring old Lincoln County just got a little cooler but since then I had time to do a little research. I thought I'd be able to find accounts of witnesses and people who claim to have seen something that might lead them to believe the courthouse is in fact haunted. but no, nothing, not one claim. So, I wondered about the Sheriff that was murdered. There appears to be no truth to that either. The closest thing I was able to find to that was the Sheriff of Lincoln County was killed in a car wreck in 1970. So, I think it&

If you've noticed a bit of a decline in blog posts over the past several months, it's because this blogger has been trying something a little different. I've been writing a book! Just something I had to get out of my system and now I can mark "author a book" off my bucket list. I actually had dreams of getting it published by a publishing company. I found out a lot about the publishing industry this year, it's not what you think. If you're really lucky, you'll get a literary agent (which you almost have to have if you want traditional publishers to see your manuscript) and if you're really, really lucky one of the publishers will like your book. Now, you'll get an advance that ranges from $1-$10,000.00. after that, you dont get anything until the publisher has got their money back from them advance. Now, you start getting royalties, which is probably gonna be about 30%. Thats option one. Option two is you self publish. Now, thesedays there are