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A tourist guide to West Virginia

1. Introduction

West Virginia, constantly covered with forests and known under the name State "Mountain", offers breathtaking scenery, natural resource-related, and all year round, outdoor activities.

Once rich in coal and wood, it has been shaped by mining and railroad logging, which removes them, but when decades withdrawal has begun to exhaust these products, equipment, green mountains covered with secondary-products resulted, ie, hiking, Biking, fishing, rafting, climbing, and hunting tourists and sports fans alike. His New River Gorge, which offers many similar activities, is equally beautiful with its steep banks and areas of blue, while the principle city of Charleston, revitalized in the years 1970 and 1980, now includes museums, art, shopping malls, restaurants and theaters world-class.

2. Charleston

Located in the Kanawha River and sports an easily marketable system gate of the street, it is subdivided into the Capitol Complex and downtown with the East End Historic District between the two.

In the former projection, which is the heart of state government, the ubiquitous visible gold-domed Capitol itself. Built buff Indiana limestone and 4,640 tons of steel, which is the temporary installation of a railway siding for transport, the building had been planned in three stages over eight years from 1924 to 1925 for the west wing from 1926 to 1927 for the east wing, and from 1930 to 1932 for the rotunda connection. It was officially inaugurated by Governor William G. Conley June 20, 1932, to mark the 69th anniversary of West Virginia statehood.

Its golden dome, which extends five feet higher than the Capitol in Washington, is gilded with 23 carat gold leaf and a half, applied between 1988 and 1991 as a small square to cover the copper surface and the other lead.

Two-thirds of its interior, which includes 535,000 square feet divided into 333 rooms, is composed of Italian travertine, imperial derby and marble from Tennessee, and shine in the Rotunda, his play mistress, is composed of 10,180 pieces of Czech crystal illuminated by 96 light bulbs. Weighing 4000 pounds, he is suspended from a 54-foot bronze and brass chain.

In front of State Capitol, but still within the complex, is the West Virginia Cultural Center. Opened in 1976 and operated by the Division of West Virginia Culture and History, was created to present the state of artistic, cultural and historical and houses the State Museum of West Virginia, archives and library history, a gift shop and a place for cultural events, shows, and related programs.

The first, a collection of elements representing the state land, people, and culture, is divided into 24 scenes covering five major periods: Prehistory (3 million years BC to 1650 AD), Frontier (1754-1860), Civil War and the 35th State (1861-1899), industrialization (1900-1945), and Change and Tradition (1954 to the 21st century). The 24 performances themselves trace the evolution of the state and include periods such as "coal forests", "plains of the river," "Wilderness" "The Gorge Fort," "Harper's Ferry," Building the Rails, "Coal Mine", "Main Street, West Virginia," and "New River. "

Thirteen memorials and statues honoring West Virginia, for their contribution to the state and nation through the complex landscaped grounds of the Capitol.

Culture can also be experienced in the Clay Center for Arts and Sciences, a modern, 240,000 square meters, the complex three levels, which opened July 12, 2003 and is one of the most ambitious economic, cultural and educational projects in the history of West Virginia. Investment science, visual arts and performing arts under one roof, the center houses the double level Avampato Discovery Museum, interactively experience focused on youth with sections such as health Royale KidSpace, Earth City, and the plant Gizmo. A 9000 square foot Art Gallery, located on the second floor, features two exhibitions and permanent, the latter focusing on the art of the 19th and 20th century by such names as Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Vida Frey and Albert Paley. ElectricSky Theatre, a 61-foot planetarium dome, offers daily astronomy shows and presentations on big screen. Shows are staged in two locations: the 1883 seats Maier Foundation Performance Hall, which houses the Symphony Orchestra of West Virginia, but also offers a variety of types of performances, comedy to popular singers, bands, repertoire, and Broadway plays, and the 200-seat Walker Theatre, which includes plays and dance with cabaret style seating program for Woody Hawley singer-songwriter. Douglas V. Reynolds Intermezzo Cafe and three classrooms are located on the lower level.

Shopping can be done in two main locations. Charleston Town Center Mall, located near the downtown Marriott and Embassy Suites Hotel near the Civic Center, is a one million square foot, three-level complex with more than 130 stores, three major anchor stores, six full service restaurants and a food court with ten other fast food places, and is available in three parking garages. Sporting a three-story atrium and a fountain, the upscale, Kanawha Valley complex was the largest urban mall east of the Mississippi River when it opened in 1983.

Capitol Market, located at Capitol and the street in the sixth and converted restored, 1800 Kanawha and Michigan Railroad Depot, is divided into two open-air markets, and it can not be used by farmers in good faith and receives daily, fresh, seasonal supplies, usually composed of flowers, shrubs and trees in spring, fruits and vegetables of summer squash, corn stalks and fall, and Christmas trees, wreaths, and garlands winter. The covered market sells seafood, cheeses and wines, and offers several food stalls and small full service Italian restaurant.

A dinner can be spent at the racetrack and gaming TriState Center. Located 15 minutes drive from Charleston, Cross Lanes, the site offers 90,000 square feet of gaming and entertainment, including over 1,300 slot machines, live racing, a poker room, blackjack, roulette, craps, and four restaurants: French Quarter Restaurant and Bar, the first round of restaurants, Cafe Orleans, and Crescent City. The nearby Hotel Mardi Gras style was completed in 2010.

3. Potomac Highlands

The Potomac Highlands, located in the eastern part of the state on the Allegheny Plateau, is a tapestry of various geographic regions and covers eight counties. Alternatively referred to as "Mountain Highlands," he had been trained about 250 million years ago when the North American and African continental collision had produced a single mass raised. Submitted to millennia of wind and water caused by erosion, this has resulted in the valleys and ridges parallel successive and today the area includes two forests National: Canaan Valley, the largest is the Mississippi River, and Spruce Knob, at 4,861 feet, the highest point of West Virginia. The mountains covered with green Wood gave in abundance, the railway operation necessary to control the two premier ski resorts, and a myriad of outdoor sports and activities.

The Potomac Highlands can be divided in the Tygart Valley, Seneca Rocks, Canaan Valley, and Big Mountain Country.

A. Tygart Valley

The City of Elkins, located in the Tygart Valley, transportation, shopping and social center of the Mountain Central Eastern Appalachian and is the basis Potomac Highland for excursions.

Founded in 1890 by Senators Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen. B. Elkins, son, brother and business partner, it arose as a hub for transportation of coal, wood, and the empire of railroads, the latter the result of their self-financed the construction Railway West Virginia plant, which stretched track between Cumberland, Maryland, and Elkins, and served as the threshold to some of the richest timber resources in the world and Mineral.

The city, which meets the needs of miners, loggers, and workers in the railway maintenance workshops led Central and grow, with a peak in 1920, before beginning a decline caused the depletion of resources-until the last train, coal and execution of wood products for the rest of the country, has left the depot in 1959.

The tracks lay barren and unused for nearly a half-century, until 2007, when the newly created Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad again resurrected and transportation of the city-the first tourists for the purposes of landscape-wrinkle resparking cycle of slow growth with an integrated suite of restaurant and live theater in its history and other Elkins Railyard hotels nearby. consistently ranked among the best cities of art small, it is once again the service center Mountain Highlands, returning to its original goal of providing hotel, restaurant, shop, and entertainment services, but now a new group of tourists.

The railway remains his goal. The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad offers three departures from the filing Elkins. The first of them, the New Tygart Flyer, " is a four-hour, 46-mile roundtrip run which enters the tunnel under Cheat Mountain, through the cities of Bowdon and Bemis, parallel to the fork of the river Shavers Cheat, and stops at high Horseshoe Falls cheat, during which he served a road, lunch buffet. Table service level is available in 1922-mouth luxury Pullman Palace Car for a price slightly higher.

The Cheat Mountain Salamander is one of nine hours, around 128-mile-trip to Spruce, and includes a buffet lunch and dinner, while the "Mountain Express Dinner Train" imitates the New Tygart Flyer road, but has a four-course meal in a restaurant car officially.

The Yard Restaurant, sandwiched between the filing and Elkins of the American Mountain Theater, offers all meals on board. Emulate the deposit itself with its brick exterior construction, restaurant $ 2.5 million, 220 spaces leased for the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, serves family-style cuisine on its main level and upscale dinners in his second floor Vista Dome Dining and menus inspired by car fare from the 1920s to 1940s. He toted the opening slogan, "Take the path to the place with exceptional taste. "

The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad Rails and Trails Boutique is located on the main level.

Continuing the historical red brick facade, the U.S. side Mountain Theater, founded in 2003 by Elkins native and RCA artist, Susie Heckel, finds its origin in a program varieties made for tourists at a different location. But rising demand won the November 2006, ground-braking structure $ 1.7 million, 12,784-square-foot, 525-seat with the aid of his sister, Beverly Sexton and her husband, Kenny, who was the owner of Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down Theater in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Open the following July, the theater provides family-centered, Branson style entertainment performed by a cast composed of nine members, with Kenny Sexton serving as its president and producer of Beverly wrote the score. Two hours of evening shows including comedy, impressions, and country, gospel, bluegrass and pop music.

Davis and Elkins College, located just a few blocks from the yard Historically, shares the founders of the city of Elkins himself, namely, Senators Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen B. Elkins. Founded in 1901, when they donated land and funding to create a college associated with the Presbyterian Church, it was originally located south of city. Its board met the following year and classes were first held September 21, 1904.

Today mix, a liberal arts college located on a 170-acre hilly, wooded campus with views of the Appalachian Mountains, is composed of 22 new and historic buildings into two parts-the north, which extends to athletic fields and the campus forward, which is located on a ridge overlooking Elkins. Thirty members and the bachelor of arts, sciences, pre-vocational and vocational programs are offered in a 700-student basis.

One of its historic buildings Inn Graceland. Designed by the architectural firm of Baltimore Baldwin and Pennington, the castle-like manor house Queen Anne style, originally situated on a farm of 360 acres, was completed in 1893. Originally called "Mingo Moor, and intermittently" Mingo Hall, after the area south of Elkins, the field has been the summer residence of Senator Davis, who regularly transported a train of invited friends and associates in July and August so that they could escape the heat of Washington and enjoy a Elkins best altitude, cooler temperatures.

The area was eventually renamed "Graceland", after more Davis girl, Grace. After the death of his wife in 1902, he continued to do business in the offices inside, while Grace resided during the summer months with his family.

The property was eventually sold to his own children, Ellen Bruce Lee and John A. Kennedy its last two owners.

Acquired by the West Virginia Education Fund Presbyterian in 1941, it has been used as a living room of males by the college until 1970, whereupon it was closed. Restored in the mid-1990s, it later reopened as a historic country inn and as a dynamic learning laboratory for students home.

Overlooking the city of Elkins, on the Davis and Elkins College campus, Graceland Inn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, features a two story foyer is richly decorated hardwood such as oak neighborhoods, birdseye maple, cherry, walnut and a grand staircase, a lounge, a library, and original stained glass windows. Mingo The dining room, reflecting the initial designation of the house and open to the public, is divided into four small rooms lined with oak and red chimneys and an outdoor veranda, and eleven rooms, located on the second and third floors and named after members of the family to contain antiques, reproductions of Victoria, turrets, canopy beds, sleigh beds, wardrobes, marble bathrooms, tubs and claw feet.

Graceland Inn, the David and Elkins College, Elkins city itself, the historical depot and yard, railroad tracks and the Appalachian Mountain Resources coal and wood are all inextricably linked to – and the city's past its future.

Seneca Rocks B.

"Seneca Rocks "refers to both a region of the Potomac Highlands and outcrops after the area is named.

Resembling a blade razor back, or shark fin, and located at the confluence of Seneca Creek and North Fork South Branch Potomac River, the 250-meter thick 900-foot-high Seneca Rocks, accessible by Route 28 in West Virginia, were formed 400 million years ago during the Silurian period in a bench sand lying on the edge of the Iapetus Ocean. As the sea has decreased in size, folded and uplifted rocks, erosion ultimately be far from its top surface and leaving the folds of the vaults and they have now stepped profile.

Made in white Tuscarora quartzite and gray, training includes both North and South Peak, with an indentation between the two.

The current Seneca Rocks Discovery Center, which replaced the original visitor center, features models of emergency in the region, films, interpretive programs, and bookstore.

A path leads to the Homestead site, part of the center. Built in 1839 by William sites like a log cabin in one piece below Seneca Rocks Ridge, it is typical of the Appalachian houses then in force, including German Blockbau square style featuring beads and corner joints V-notched reversed by the stone and clay cracks. Its small casement windows were also of German descent, while his plan "hall and fair speech "reflects the English style. Location Stack said location of the house: the Nordic style homes built internals and houses Southern style sported external.

In the late 1860s, a son of sites "expanded the homestead, adding a second floor, and after use as a hay barn, the Forest Service bought in 1969, recovery in the 1980s. In 1993, it was added National Register of Historic Places.

The Spruce Knob-Seneca longer Rocks National Recreation Area, offering important opportunities for outdoor sports, contains key part of the watershed of Chesapeake Bay, with mountains and forests to collect water that then flows into the Potomac River and the bay itself. Acting as a filtering mechanism and purification, its forests upstream purify water before it reaches streams. Knob Spruce is both the culmination of the Chesapeake watershed and the entire state of West Virginia.

In addition to facilitating water, the region provided livelihood to the man who first lived in Amerindian villages in the mountains, and have established agricultural settlements and logging camps, mining resources and support to the life of 13,000 years. Today, it houses 15 million people.

The Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is itself part of the largest National Forest Monongahela. Established in 1920 with an initial 7200 hectares, the forest This contains the source 910.155 acres of the Monongahela, Potomac, Greenbrier, Elk, Tygart, and the Gauley River, five appointed by the federal government "Deserts" of Dolly Sods, extra Creek, Laurel Fork North, Laurel Fork South, and whose cranberries and very remote and primitive areas will offer markup substandard, and four lakes.

A Mecca for lovers of outdoor sports, the National Forest has 169 walks, mountain biking, horseback and trails that cover over 800 miles, 576 miles of trout streams, 129 miles of warm water fishing, 23 campsites, 17 picnic areas, observation Wildlife and black bear, wild turkey, deer, gray fox, rabbits, snowshoe hare, grouse and woodcock woods.

Canaan Valley C.

Covered in Largetooth, balsam fir and spruce, Canaan Valley, which extends 14 miles, is the highest valley is like the Mississippi River, the mountain of the same name which separates the River Blackwater and the creation a deep, narrow canyon on the Allegheny Plateau.

The pristinely beautiful area includes two state parks, Canaan Valley Resort and Black Water Falls State Parks, two ski areas of New Canaan Valley Resort and Timberline Four Seasons Resort, and home to the nation wildlife 500th.

Natural sports abound: hiking, riding, fishing, golf, swimming, rafting and nature interpretive walk in the summer and skiing, snowboarding, and tubing during the winter.

Nucleus of most of this is 6000 hectares Canaan Valley Resort State Park, which includes 18 miles of trails, wetlands, meadows, forests of northern hardwoods, wildlife, 200 species of birds and 600 types of wildflowers.

Canaan Valley Resort, located in the park, offers 250 modern rooms, 23 two, three, mountain chalets and four rooms with fireplace and full kitchen, 34 paved, wooded campsites with lots of connections, and six restaurants and lounges, including Hickory Dining Room in the main lodge.

His 4280 meter mountain, whose longest run is 1.25 miles and whose vertical rise is 850 feet, has a quad and two triple lifts and 11 trails for night skiing. Its winter activities, such as the extent of the Canaan Valley, skiing, snowboarding, Airboard, tubing, snowshoeing and ice skating, while summer programs include scenic chairlift rides, guided walks, Golf, tennis and hiking.

Big Mountain Country D.

Grand County Mountain, the location of the peak in the second row of the West Virginia, serves as the birthplace of eight rivers, the Greenbier, Gauley, Cheat, Cherry, Elk, Williams, cranberries, and while his Tygart-Seneca Forest state, which borders the former county of Pocahontas, is the oldest. A table of the status of sites of interest include railways steam logging, astronomical observatories, cities preserved, a resort Prime Minister, and their range of associated outdoor sports and activities.

The Durbin and Railroad Valley excursion train Greenbier fourth, "Durbin Rocket," departs Durbin city itself, located about 40 miles from Elkins.

Powered by a steam engine of 55 tons built for the Moore-Keppel Lumber Company in nearby Randolph County, and one of three locomotives adapted Climax logging, the train duration of two hours, run 11-mile round trip along the river and through Greenbier the Monongahela National Forest as Piney Island, where the rental "car Tail castaway is unplugged and pushed onto a spur track for a short overnight stay or longer.

The ultra-modern, high-tech National Radio Astronomy Observatory, located a short distance from Green Bank, provides an opportunity to learn more about astronomy radio waves.

Design, construction and telescopes operating in the radio world's most advanced and sophisticated, the Observatory released images of celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies millions of light years away from recording their quantities Radio failure.

The Green Bank Science Center, the core of this experience, has a museum that presents the science of radio astronomy, waves radio operation of the telescope, and what is learned through them, the universe, the Galaxy Gift Shop, Starlight Cafe, and the starting point for Le Tour escorted bus facility, before which an introductory film and conferences are presented in the theater.

Tour Highlight is the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), conceived when the previous device 300 feet collapsed in 1988 and Congress was forced to appropriate emergency funds for the design.

Dedicated August 25, 2000, after a period of development nine years, it is 485 feet high, is composed of 2004 panels, has a diameter of 100 meters-110, an area of 2.3 hectares of land, and weighs 17 million pounds. The world's largest, fully manageable telescope with a computer-controlled surface that reflects, it is functionally independent of the sun, allowing Operating 24 hours a day, and receives wavelengths that vary between 1/8th inch to nine feet.

Initially used in conjunction with the Arecibo Observatory to produce images of Venus, he then discovered three new pulsars (rotating neutron stars) in the region of Messier 62.

15 minutes by car from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is another important show, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park.

Tracing its origins to 1899 when John G. Luke has more than 67,000 acres of red spruce in an area that has finally developed in the town of Cass, he became the headquarters of the Pulp and Paper Company, West Virginia. The city, supporting the labor required to convert resources materials into finished products, sprouted shops, services, houses, a sawmill, tracks, and a railway to transport the wood.

Instrumental to the operation was the Shay, or conceived Climax Heisler steam locomotive, which direct transmission delivered positive control and more power, allowing them folds often temporarily put-tracks, steep slopes and hairpin turns, while pulling heavy loads of freshly felled wood. The Western Maryland # 6, 162 tons, was the last, the heaviest and Shay locomotive ever built. The railway has opened its first service in 1901.

In two 11-hour shifts six days a week, the mill of the city was able to cut over 125,000 board feet of timber per shift and 360 000 by dry run with its 11 miles of steam pipes, adding 1.5 million board feet cut per week and 35 million per year. After 40 years of milling Cass and spruce, more two billion board feet of wood and paper were produced.

In operation until 1943, the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company has sold the company at the Mower Lumber Company, which has continued for another 17 years, when it was closed and purchased by the State of West Virginia in 1961.

The railroad and the town of Cass, which remain virtually unchanged, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In addition to historic buildings, there are many other attractions. Connected to store Cass Company is the railway on the theme Last Run Restaurant. Turn of the century, logging can be gleaned from the Historical Museum Cass. Shay Railways Shop, coal bins have once home, offers extra pounds and crafts for sale. The metal building over Cass Showcase, having stored hay for horse teams, the characteristics of an introductory film and a HO-scale train and city development reflects their appearance in the 1930s.

Cass walks, usually conducted in the afternoon after the trains back to their daily tours offer a glimpse, as it had been living and working in a company town at the turn of the century, while the Locomotive Repair Shop tour includes a visit to the Railway Mountain State and a shop logging Historical Association, the sawmill sector, and a look at Shay and Climax locomotive maintenance and repair.

A trip on the Cass Scenic Railroad itself, which began in 1963 and tourist walks is the longest train trip scenic in the country is an experience living history. Led by one of the originals or Climax Shay steam locomotives, the train can accommodate passengers in cars also Faith logging that have been converted to coaches wooden bench-like and roofs, while one box car, offering reserved seating, Accommodation Sports booth-like and is designated "Leatherbark Creek."

All trains depart from filing rebuilt Cass at an altitude of 2456 meters, climbing Leatherneck Run, negotiate the 11-percent grades, maneuvering and reversing a switchback lower and upper and arriving at the station Whittaker, who has a snack stand, overlooking the mountains east of West Virginia, and a camp re, 1946 operating forest. The eight-mile round trip back to the Cass needs two hours.

At four and a half, 22-mile round trip continues up Back Allegheny Mountain, from old spruce and oats Creek water tank, and sail tracks laid by the Mower Lumber Company, 4842 feet before reaching Bald Knob, third highest peak of West Virginia.

Limited editions are also available at Spruce, an abandonment of logging on the city Shavers Fork of Cheat River. The train also passes Whittaker Station.

Although not not affiliated with the Cass Scenic Railroad, Boyer Station Restaurant, located six miles from Green Bank on Highway 28, offers inexpensive, home-cooked, picnic scene in the middle of the railroad rail wooden tables, remind filing and benches, trains and logging memorabilia, and large scale, assembled on the railway track model. It is part of a 20-room motel and campground complex.

Wintersports account for a significant portion of the offer of the Big Mountain country. Ten miles of Cass Scenic Railroad State Park Snowshoe Mountain.

Located at the convergence bowl-shaped back of Cheat and Allegheny Mountains to the head of the branch Shavers Cheat River, the area of trees removed by logging between 1905 and 1960, was discovered by Thomas Brigham, a North Carolina dentist, who had already opened the Beech Mountain and Sugar Mountain ski resorts.

Given European-style rackets Village is located on the top of the mountain and offers 1400 hotel rooms and condominiums, restaurants, shops, services, and entertainment. The 244-acre resort, which combines snowshoeing and Silver Creek areas, a base 3348 feet, a summit of 4848 feet, making it the highest ski resort for example in the mid-Atlantic and South, 14 chairlifts, 60 trails, the longest is 1.5 miles and 1,500 feet in elevation changes Cupp Run and Revenge Shay. Average snowfall is 180 inches. Spring, summer, autumn and activities include golf, canoeing, biking, climbing, hiking, horseback riding, canoeing, kayaking, skating and swimming.

The extended area of Seneca State Forest, named after the Native Americans which once roamed the earth, the boundaries of Greenbier River in Pocahontas County and contains 23 miles of forest, 11,684 hectares of forest, lake four acres for boating and trout, largemouth bass, bluegill and fishing, hiking tails, pioneer cabins and campsites rustic.

4. New River Greenbrier Valley

The New River Greenbrier Valley region of West Virginia is topographically diverse and rugged beauty.

Split by the Gauley River, its northern part consists of a rugged plateau which is located in the calm, azure Summersville Lake, while mountain ridges, offering wide exploitation of domestic coal, are characteristic of its central region. Horse and grazing cattle is spread on the flat expanse that closes intersperse lush eastern edge, the plateau of the green mountain, divided by Greenbrier River, the most important water channel in the wild is United States, which crosses. The southern region is a puzzle ridges omni-directional and very narrow valleys.

New and gorges Bluestone River formed provide a wealth of climbing, canoeing, kayaking and rafting opportunities in this region of the state.

most important region, and beautiful topographic feature is the New River Gorge National River. Flowing from below Bluestone Dam near Hinton, north U.S. 19 Highway Bridge near Fayetteville, he dissects all physiographic provinces of the Appalachians. Sturdy, white water river, and among the oldest in North America, it flows north through steep canyons and geological formations. Approximately 1,000 feet separating its bottom, its adjacent shelf. July 30 1998 he was named American Heritage River, one of 14 rivers so designated.

The park includes 70,000 acres related.

Signing of the New River Gorge National Park is the New River Gorge Bridge. completed October 22, 1977, at a cost of $ 37 million, double hinged arch bridge steel is 3030 feet long, 69.3 feet wide and has an authorization of 876 feet. Drive to four lanes from Route 19, he was the longest in the world, and is currently the highest road bridge in the Americas and the second in the world after the Millau viaduct in France. Its longest span between the arches, is 1,700 feet.

There are three centers and related VantagePoint. Canyon Rim Visitor Center, located two miles north of Fayetteville on Highway 19, offers exhibitions, films, interpretive programs, trails, and scenic overlook, while the Centre is located in Grandview Thurmond exit Interstate 64 on Route 25. Park headquarters are in Glen Jean.

Fayetteville is the hub of New River Gorge kayaking and rafting.

Coal, as a synonym of West Virginia as forestry, tourism industry should experience a time during his visit. The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, located in the town of the same name, offers such an opportunity.

A 1400 square foot store the company, the museum coal fudgery, Store and serves as a visitor and the threshold for the two main components. A coal camp, the first of these, depicting the life of 20th century in a typical city of coal, represented by several moved and restored buildings.

Navigating 1,500 feet of underground tunnels in -36-inch Phillips-Sprague Seam mine, which was active between 1883 and 1953, guided track "man cars" driven by minors faith, include second component of the complex and make periodic stops in cold, damp and dark passages to discuss and illustrate the progress of mining technology. The rock powder, for example, ensure that coal dust would not explode at the bottom of the mine. Strategically positioned roof bolts prevent landslides. Pumps extract water. Dangerously low oxygen levels dictated immediate evacuation.

The coal powered steam engines the world for industrial plants, railways and maritime transportation.

The Phillips-Sprague Mine is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

5. Conclusion

West Virginia Charleston principle three regions, the highlands of the Potomac, and the New River Valley Greenbier offer immersion experiences in the past that have shaped the present through its pristinely beautiful and rich in natural resources, mines and mountains that gave the coal, wood, logging railroads, and an abundance of outdoor sports.

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Developmental Learning in Art

Developmental Learning in Art

Human developmental theories can be found in education, society, and even in peace research: cognitive, developmental, social learning, and socio-cultural developmental theories all have contributed to the educational system that is present today in the United States of America. Researchers such as Darwin, Freud, Erickson, Piaget, Watson, Skinner, Kohlberg, Bandura, Vygostsky, Bowlby, Bronfenbrenner, Gilligan, among many other scientists have done extensive research that today has influenced education throughout the content areas. The purpose of this article is to analyze two human development theories and create a lifelong learning curriculum for the art education throughout the lifespan of a learner.

Cognitive Developmental Theory

To understand is to invent, or to reconstruct by reinventing.                           

  Piaget (1972, p. 24)

Jean Piaget

Even though some critics say that Piaget’s theories are not correct, others support his research. To understand a bit better where the theories originated from lets discuss the origin of Jean Piaget. In 1896, born in a French-speaking part of Switzerland a child was born to a medieval literature professor called Arthur Piaget. According to his father, Jean was a precocious child who developed an interest in natural science (biology and the natural world), and even published a number of papers before he graduated from high school about mollusks. His lifelong passion was to understand how humans create knowledge. Piaget’s efforts founded the discipline of genetic epistemology (biological foundations for knowledge), and established a framework that continues to affect the way teachers are trained and students are taught.

He served as a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva from 1929 to 1975 and is best known for reorganizing cognitive development theory into a series of stages, expanding on earlier work from James Mark Baldwin: four levels of development corresponding roughly to (1) infancy, (2) pre-school, (3) childhood, and (4) adolescence. Piaget spent years observing and interviewing young male children in an effort to further his theories about the construction of knowledge. According to Nagarjuna (2006), Piaget “thought that by observing the ways that children create meaning, he could learn more in general about the development of knowledge.”

Development from one stage to the next according to Piaget is the accumulation of errors in the child’s understanding of the environment; theses errors eventually causes such a degree of cognitive disequilibrium that the structures within the child require reorganizing. According to Murray (2007), “All development emerges from action; that is to say, individuals construct and reconstruct their knowledge of the world as a result of interactions with the environment.”  According to Nagarjuna (2006), “Cognitive structures are understood to be the ways that young people make sense of the world, given their lack of adult sensibilities.”

Jean Piaget viewed intelligence as a process that help an organism adapt to its environment and proposed four major periods of cognitive development. The four development stages described in Piaget’s theory are (1) sensorimotor stage, (2) Preoperational stage, (3) Concrete operational stage, and (4) formal operational stage. Each cognitive structure in Piaget’s theory is defined by a series of traits, and corresponds loosely to specific age. These chronological periods are not rigid rules, just approximate values to set the stages in an order starting from birth to 2 years of age defining the sensorimotor stage, where the children experience the world through movement and senses and learn object permanence. The preoperational stage starts from the age of 2 to 7 years and the child has an acquisition of motor skills. In the concrete operational stage starts from 7 to 11 years and the children begin to think logically about concrete events that are taking place in their environment. In the formal operational stage begins after the age of 11 and it is when the child develops of abstract reasoning of the world around them.

            Based on his life long research, Piaget felt that “students should not be seen as empty vessels to be filled by expert teachers, but rather active participants in the building of their own knowledge” (Nagarjuna, 2006). According to Murray (2007), Piaget concluded “that schools should emphasize cooperative decision-making and problem solving, nurturing moral development by requiring students to work out common rules based on fairness” (p. 2). Even though the explanations offered may be incorrect today, according to the latest adult sensibilities and research, but “the fact that children do offer explanations for these things shows that they are actively working to understand the world around them” (Nagarjuna, 2006).

Following Piaget’s line of reasoning, Selman (1980) examined children’s cognitive understanding of the social world. To understand relations and interactions between people, children need to understand that others also have an internal state which influences how they are behaving. Selman reported that rather young children realize that different people have visual perspectives which are independent from their own. . . . Implying Piaget’s insight in peace education would ask for an active, exploratory process in which conflicting information and social dilemmas are allowed to exist. In such a process, learning to understand the underlying perspectives (visual, social, or emotional) of other people would broaden our possibilities of being confronted with and understanding differences.

Hakvoort (2002)

Lev Vygotsky

The second theory that will be used to write the art curriculum for the lifelong learners is the cognitive theories of Lev Vygotsky. Vygotsky insists that children’s minds are shaped by the particular social and historical context in which they live and by their interactions with adults, explaining why educators will never be replaced with technology no matter the advances that we reach. His social development theories play a fundamental role in the development of cognition. Vygotsky (1978) states:

Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals (p.57).

Vygostsky’s theory of art developed a “dynamic overall approach by (1) the writer’s intentions, era, and background; (2) the form, content, and symbolism of the literary piece; and (3) the readers’ experience and interpretation of the work” (Lindqvist, 2003). Vygostsky did not regards art as something spiritual and metaphysical, which raises the artists genius above the shape and contents of the work being created. Instead, he saw art as a reflection how society touches the people’s lives and how society developed. Art is an excellent tool for studying not only society, but emotions, and psychology. According to Lindqvist (2003), “Vygostsky regarded the psychology of art as a theory of the social techniques of emotions. His analysis reflects the artistic process.”

Art

The Britannica Online defines art as “the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.” The first and broadest sense of art is the one that has stayed closest to the older Latin meaning, which roughly translates to “skill” or “craft,” and also from an Indo-European root meaning “arrangement” or “to arrange.” In this sense, art is whatever is described as having undergone a deliberate process of arrangement. Art can describe several things: a study of creative skill, a process of using the creative skill, a product of the creative skill, or the audience’s experience with the creative skill. Art is something that visually stimulates an individual’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas. Art is a realized expression of an idea – it can take many different forms and serve many different purposes.

Using this last definition art would be a good tool to used to help students acquire a sense of belonging in their environment. According to Wekipedia, the common characteristics displayed by art are:

1. encourages an intuitive understanding rather than a rational understanding, as, for example, with an article in a scientific journal;
2. was created with the intention of evoking such an understanding or an attempt at such an understanding in the audience;
3. was created with no other purpose or function other than to be itself (a radical, “pure art” definition);
4. is elusive, in that the work may communicate on many different levels of appreciation;
5. may offer itself to many different interpretations, or, though it superficially depicts a mundane event or object, invites reflection upon elevated themes;
6. demonstrates a high level of ability or fluency within a medium; this characteristic might be considered a point of contention, since many modern artists (most notably, conceptual artists) do not themselves create the works they conceive, or do not even create the work in a conventional, demonstrative sense (one might think of Tracey Emin’s controversial My Bed);
7. confers particularly appealing or aesthetically satisfying structures or forms upon an original set of unrelated, passive constituents.

Art Educational Program

But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.

Plato

            Many schools are now learning how to deal with the diversity among the student and teacher population. Greenman (2007) suggests that art, music, and language are a good way to embrace cultural diversity. Art teachers, need to incorporate the art of other cultures throughout the schools curricula. Just as the scientists that wanted to change the world with their theories on human development artists, art teachers, art historians and other enthusiasts appreciate and value the art of other countries, so perhaps we may facilitate the education of others. Since according to Greenman (2007), “We’re all aware that when you know and understand something, you come to appreciate and value its uniqueness.”

Design, Implementation, and Teaching

A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Infants. Infants are children classified from birth to 2 years of age. Through the use of many practices, specialized schools, and educational program for parents, caregivers can start educating their child from infancy using art. Art exposes the child to a world of imagination while it introduces him/ her to the riches of our world (plants, animals, places, etc.). Since infants can’t speak exposing them to bright colors, pictures, cartoons, and other forms of art is the best tool to use. During these delicate years of infancy, the child is developing their sensorimotor skills (uses of all the five senses). Color are the best way to help develop hand and eye coordination by obtaining toys, tools, education material that is bright and contains the main primary colors: red, blue, yellow, green, white, and black. The exposure to more colors helps the students learn to define and identify not only the colors but the objects containing the colors, using their appropriate names if taught by the caregivers.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Toddlers. Toddlers in the other hand are children from the age of 2 to 5 years old. These children are active and have been able to identify colors, shapes, object, and their functions. As the child’s caregiver this is time to expose the children to watercolors, colored pencils, crayons, long white walls, mud, clay, and so on. The student will learn to make lines and circles, which are the basic principals for writing. The use of watercolors, brushes, and color pencils will refine the motor skills they will need in the future. The crayons would teach them to stay in between the lines while making their own masterpieces to share their feelings and their view of the environment.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Once a child enters the school system it is the teachers task to become the second parent, the guide need to enhance the lives of the children. At this stage of development, the children are able to identify and recognize variations in their environment. They are able to create art, enhance it, mimic it, copy it, and interpret the art, the culture, and the origin of it. The students learn how to express their feeling, emotions, sentiments, problems, solutions, and soul through their colors. At this ages they also try to experiment by creating their own colors, mixing and matching to create their own identity.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Anonymous

Adolescence. Teenagers are a strange bread of individuals not quite adults, yet not quite children. These students are full of energy, passion, rage, anger, emotions, problems, and should be taught to use art as a means to release, fix, or neutralize these emotions. The students can at this age create a art festival in which they show the techniques and skills they have learned in previous years. Since art teachers are natural leaders according to Greenman (2007),  high school students can create an “International Festival” in which they can exhibit various works of art from diverse countries, make creative bulletin board of different languages, have a dance contest in which P.E. class are incorporated, use diverse cloth from different cultures, after-school activities, special meals, among other things. As a high school teacher, “students could wear special costumes from their country of origin at the event. The colors, designs, and patterns would add much to the festive occasion. Wearing art from around the world … a feast for the eyes” (Greenman, 2007).

The Classroom experience is changed when you’re close to the age of the professor and bring similar life experiences into the leaning process.

Gay Clyburn

Young Adults. As a young adult, there are many ways that you can enhance art education among the students population. Personally, the students are looking to enhance their knowledge of the world and environments around them. As the instructor a creation of a diverse art curriculum that includes making colors from scratch, how to make paper, in depth study on how colors where used in Egypt, Greece, Paris, US, Latin America, China, Japan. In these courses, go into depth on how to interpret, appreciate, and create art piece that could teach the students how to blend in to a diverse settings. Teach how to tell a story through time using only colors and art.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Henry Peter Brougham

Senior Citizens. As an educator, while teaching an art to senior citizens incorporating acrylic painting, watercolors, and other techniques to help them express what they have seen, lived, and experience through life. Learning how to leave a legacy of love for their loved ones, long discussions on the topic will lead to philosophy, acquisition of others knowledge and the teacher would become the students and the students would become the teachers since their experiences would be much greater than the educators. A deep discussion on the Mona Lisa, could lead us to solve the Dan Vinci code, while trying to create their own mysteries, while realizing that “If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family” (Manikan).

In conclusion, art education has many benefits for the students and world that we live in, but what has the educational systems have been doing to ensure the survival of these programs since they seem to be the first eliminated when the budgets are cut in schools. According to Holcomb (2007), “as a growing consensus of policymakers, educators, and parents agree that the arts are integral to learning, some districts are seeing a policy shift on the local and state level. In California, education and arts organizations have worked to secure a windfall arts budget that, in theory, would guarantee arts education in every public school in the state. The monies – $105 million in ongoing funds, and a one-time, $500 million line item for classroom equipment – are a legacy of the California Teacher Association’s successful lawsuit on education funding.”

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Greenman, G. (2007, January). Tried & True tips for Art Teachers. Retrieved January 31, 2007 from www.art5andactivities.com

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Expert Tips on Buying and Selling Medium Term Notes (mtns)

While we discuss the importance of understanding MTNs (Medium-term Notes), we would like to preface with saying that much of this is personal opinion, observation, experience and activities that are none other than our research from InvestorEarth. There is much more to learn on the dynamics of the emanation of MTNs, how MTNs culminated and where they are going that we can’t cover in this article. That is for another day; today, we will be giving you a simple overview of the life of a MTN.

This article will be comprised of certain inalienable truths and falsehoods. We’d like to review those one by one.

In much of this unique world of MTNs, CMOs and BGs, there is a seemingly generation full of passed down protocols. Something that we hear quite often is that there is no need and no such requirement for a POFs (Proof of Funds) Contract. While this may appear to be so for those more experienced in this genre of offerings, when the procedures are read, you will see that MT103/23, MT760’s, MT799/999’s, et. Cetera are etched within. These “MT-derivative” instruments are forms of POFs. Should you run across a client, buyer or representative colloquially bragging that they will not be providing POF’s upfront; kindly and softly discourage further relations and discussion.

We hear it from others and it mystifies us continually when it is said that pension fund “Acquisition Groups” are prolific buyers. Where this idea has emanated from is beyond us but this is not the case. These pension fund managers are actually attempting to buy paper without any type of VOF (verification of funds) and are in reality attempting to use someone else’s liquidity or in essence, “flip invoices”. Steer clear of these groups as well as you will typically find yourself running on a wheel spindle inside a cage.

During a spot buy, the buyer/client is entitled to see the ISIN/CUSIP of the instrument. This however does not mean that they are entitled to see it for a contract. Some clients may ask you for the ISIN/CUSIP. Advise the client that they will have the opportunity to verify the instrument before paying and it does not follow protocol nor will they be allowed to view it ahead of time.

We are amused with the frequency of how often we hear six simple words; “I am direct to the Buyer” or, “I am the Buyer’s Mandate”. Ask if they are contracted or chartered by the client to get them paper. Do they directly correspond with the client or do they go through someone else. Typically, we find out that this wording means that they know someone who knows somebody who can get in touch of someone somehow. The key question is to ask how many people are involved to get “them” direct. The job does not fall on us to be your shoppers. Be sure to ask lots of specific, hard questions that require specific answers and don’t be blinded by generalities in your excitement of getting a deal done.

There are those who profess to buy paper and then there are those who propose to buy paper. Two little words make a huge difference. When a week goes by and you hear, “The buyer is working on the paperwork”, the reason the LOR/FPA hasn’t been returned is typically conjunctive with the fact that “I have not found anyone who will follow along with the procedures”. When a LOR/FPA isn’t returned within a few hours, we know that this more than likely is a “dead buyer”. For this reason, we do not forward any documents to anyone other than the client or his direct representative. Clients buy paper. That is what they do and how they realize phenomenal returns and continue to do so. When they are searching for more fresh cut and seasoned paper, it is because their appetite is larger than their available sources.

It is also heard that “brokers” can determine the amount of the split on the FPA. Broker’s greed can more often than not kill the deal and result in the involved brokers being blacklisted. The Client determines ultimately the actions of the FPA. As always in our case, we usually see one, sometimes two available slots out of three that are proportionately shared in the fees. Many groups never make it past this phase.

The timeframe for an MTN to close is roughly a week when due diligence, compliance and verification of funds are fulfilled. Deals do not close in a day. One snag that holds up transactions is that the client wants to talk to the platform trader. This usually means that the client is a broker. Trade platforms never talk to a client until compliance has been met.

Another hiccup is when the client wants to modify a trade contract to further cater to his wishes. This never materializes and typically results in the client no longer being able to work with the trading platform. Remember that LORs and RWA’s are guidelines only and are not set in stone. It is ultimately up to the trade platform and program being offered. Remember in the world of MTNs and BGs, the seller drives the boat, not the client.

These are the main cliff notes, so to speak, of the progression of MTN’s. While vague and not too involved, there are articles we have explaining it in much greater details that are available at InvestorEarth.com and are available upon an invitation to review our detailed educational reports. InvestorEarth.com is pleased to be educators on these and other high yield investment matters and welcomes further questions.

To your success.

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