In 1775, frontier scout Henri Thevenin disappeared into the wilderness, leaving behind a journal packed with secret ciphers, maps, and revolutionary messages. That journal has finally been decoded — and it’s coming to life as The Thevenin Cipher, the most ambitious America 250 experience yet.

Isabelle Rogner grew up in the small town of Lewisburg, West Virginia. In 2016, she was about to graduate from Marshall University with a degree in international business and happened to attend a small meeting with a couple student leaders and Brad Smith, who at the time was the CEO of [...]

Matt Griffin's company, Combat Flip Flops is a small business that has taken him and his team of former Army Rangers into the public’s eye more often than most businesses of similar size. Going by his preferred nickname, Griff, he's been featured in multiple business publications, did a TED Talk about [...]

These days, I think it’s safe to say that the American diet has changed.  With sit-down restaurants closed due to COVID-19 pandemic, for better or worse, carry-out venues and drive-thru windows have probably become mainstays in many people’s daily eating habits.  But traditional brick and mortar locations are hurting. The revenue [...]

What is the 50 Pages Project? West Virginia is at something of a crossroads.  For years, various nonprofits and state agencies have been working on building an entrepreneurial culture from the ground up in West Virginia schools. The motivation for this is simple:  West Virginia has lagged behind the rest of [...]

Born Fighting Last year, I attended the funeral of a friend’s father. The entire service took place on a mountaintop overlooking a rural valley in West Virginia. As the family sat under a small canopy next to the casket, people stood loosely arranged in semi-circles emanating out for about thirty feet. [...]