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Get ready for some family fun in the sand and sun in Welch, WV, Saturday, July 2nd to celebrate Independence Day Weekend! Family activities, games, free watermelon, a beer garden, beach music, vendors, and fireworks at 10 pm!
Friday, December 3 CoalTown Christmas Bazaar, 11 am to 5 pm at the Jack Caffrey Arts & Culture Center. CoalTown Christmas Parade, line up at 6:30 pm on Stewart St, with Parade starting at 7:00 pm ending at Martha Moore Park. Tree Lighting directly after the parade with free hot chocolate, cookies, and caroling. Sunday, […]
Friday, December 3 CoalTown Christmas Bazaar, 11 am to 5 pm at the Jack Caffrey Arts & Culture Center. CoalTown Christmas Parade, line up at 6:30 pm on Stewart St, with Parade starting at 7:00 pm ending at Martha Moore Park. Tree Lighting directly after the parade with free hot chocolate, cookies, and caroling. Sunday, […]
Friday, December 3 CoalTown Christmas Bazaar, 11 am to 5 pm at the Jack Caffrey Arts & Culture Center. CoalTown Christmas Parade, line up at 6:30 pm on Stewart St, with Parade starting at 7:00 pm ending at Martha Moore Park. Tree Lighting directly after the parade with free hot chocolate, cookies, and caroling. Sunday, […]
Please mark your calendar and join the City of Welch in the second weekend of September for the first Coalfields Heritage Festival—an event to remember the coal miner and his family, the sacrifices they faced, the legacy they carried, and the pride of growing up in the southern coalfields of WV. The Coalfield Heritage Festival […]
Matewan is the 1987 film written and directed by John Sayles and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, and David Strathairn. The film dramatizes the events of the Matewan Massacre and the events that led to the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921. Variety Magazine lauded the film, writing, […]
Reenactment: Murder of Sid Hatfield & Ed Chambers, McDowell County Courthouse Saturday, September 4, 2021 12:00 PM 1:00 PM McDowell County Courthouse90 Wyoming StreetWelch, WV, 24801United States (map) Google Calendar ICS On Aug. 1, 1921, “Smilin” Sid Hatfield, the Sheriff of Matewan, and Ed Chambers, an organizer with the United Mine Workers of America, were gunned down by […]