What Is Home?
Why This Blog?
Come Home West Virginia was originally meant to be about my journey home to West Virginia. I left West Virginia for graduate school in 1978, with every intention of going home soon. A husband, two kids, and three states later, and almost exactly 30 years later, I came back. As the kids went off to college, retirement came closer, and I lived through a diagnosis of and treatment for breast cancer, it became more and more important to go home. While I retired from my paid work, I’m not retiring from life and work, and it is time for me to give back to West Virginia.
I researched places to live in West Virginia, and we settled on Clarksburg, after finding a wonderful house here. I spent a year looking at what’s going on now, and looking for ways I can contribute. In this blog and in these pages, I hope to share the research I am doing with anyone who, like me, wants to go home to West Virginia. And maybe persuade some others who are not sure whether they could go home again.
Why Green Bank?
The picture in the header is one I took at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank. The barn, the mountains, the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope, in a valley first settled by my ancestors before the invention of the kerosene lantern.
For more about me, see my personal blog at http://ldeg.wordpress.com
