Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Since 2007

Tag: West Virginia

Updated: Posts about the National Road and US 40 in Pennsylvania and West Virginia

Updated: my posts about a 2009 road trip along the National Road and US 40 in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

27 February 2020
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1 February 2018
Grieving the relationship I wanted but never could have with my father

It was on a 1990 road trip with my father that I began to see that he might never be able to have a man-to-man relationship with me.

31 January 2018
Captured: On the schoolhouse steps

I’ve been looking through old photographs as I’ve thought about a subject for the photo book I’d like to produce. Reviewing photos from my Pentax KM, I found this 2013 photo of my dad. I used a 55mm f/1.8 SMC Pentax lens and Kodak TMax 400 film — which I mistakenly shot at 100. Fortunately, Photoshop rescued…

4 May 2016
Mom Grey on my mind

Please enjoy this story again, which I first told 11 October 2010. Everyone in the family called her Mom. She was my father’s father’s mother, my great grandmother, and her time overlapped mine by a handful of years. Filet-O-Fish sandwiches will always make me think of her. She was born in the West Virginia hills…

17 July 2015
A weekend on Capitol Hill

We returned to the hills of West Virginia a couple weekends ago for a family reunion. The world headquarters of the Grey family is the tiny town of Handley, population about 400. It lies on the Kanawha River about 25 miles southeast of Charleston. But Charleston is where we laid our heads each night. My…

22 July 2013
A place where it means something to be a Grey

Handley is a tiny West Virginia town 20 miles south of Charleston on the Kanawha River. It served the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad back in the day. Cars full of coal still constantly pass through town. This is where my family is from. My great grandmother Grey owned a tavern next to the rail yard office. My…

23 July 2012
Mom Grey on my mind

Everyone in the family called her Mom. She was my father’s father’s mother, my great grandmother, and her time overlapped mine by a handful of years. Filet-O-Fish sandwiches will always make me think of her. She was born in the West Virginia hills at a time when indoor plumbing wasn’t yet widely available. She is…

11 October 2010
Canon Canonet QL17 G-III

The Canon Canonet QL17 G-III is a lovely camera with a fine lens. I review it here.

30 November 2009
The Wheeling Suspension Bridge on the National (Old Trails) Road

I’d only ever zipped through Wheeling on I-70 before. The tunnel was always fun to drive through, but every time I emerged from it there was the old suspension bridge stretching across the river. I always swore that next time I’d get off the interstate and drive it. As part of the tour of Wheeling…

3 June 2009
A tour of Wheeling, West Virginia, on the National Road

It made good sense to stop in Wheeling overnight as we made our way home on the National Road. It’s just shy of 300 miles from Baltimore to Wheeling, and a bit more than 300 miles from Wheeling to Indianapolis, and that’s about as close to smack-dab-in-the-middle as it gets. It also made excellent sense…

1 June 2009
Madonnas of the Trail on the National Old Trails Road

Three Madonnas of the Trail, installed on the National Old Trails Road in 1928-9.

25 May 2009