Joel Philip Myers

  MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates’ special cataloged collectibles auction Saturday, Dec. 5, will present more than 150 character and figural cookie jars from the Gloria Mayo collection. Included are Little Audrey and many other rare examples.

WESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Thanks mainly to West Virginia’s abundance of natural gas and silica, more than 500 glass factories have operated in the state since the early 1800s, producing everything from art glass and marbles to pop bottles and windshields. Cheap foreign labor and skyrocketing natural gas prices, though, have left only a half-dozen […]