After serving WVa for 124 years we are revamping our image and building a new site - and a new name! While working in the coal mines in 1888 he had a vision of a new way of getting news in WV. Sitting at his kitchen table with his best friend, Kerwin Summerville, they began publishing The West Virginia Ramp on the only materials they had available... dirty oil rags. Believe it or not, THAT is wher
e newspapers began to be called, "RAGS". The West Virginia Ramp has gone from rags, to paper, back to rags and then paper again. It was published a short while on tree bark during the depression, the back to paper and NOW... the Internet! Guarding the integrity of such a valued West Virginia tradition is my task. Please join me as we move into the next chapter of my grandfather's legacy. We are building a new website and getting a new name!
