West Virginia is a place apart, mildly forgotten as it is lodged between more noticeable states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. West Virginia has already established its own unpolished identity, no longer interested in being just the western version of its eastern and more refined counterpart by the same name. Only a full day’s drive from New England, it is a state comfortable with itself, however injurious the stereotypes it has had to endure. It will take very little time to realize that West Virginia is far cry from a clan of self-described ignorant hillbillies that are all related to each other. Up and coming, it is of inaccessible valleys and rock face drenched in American history. West Virginia constantly struggles between preserving the charm of its slow-paced, rural lifestyle and prospering in an ever-changing 21st century.
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