Around the holidays, everybody wants a little taste of home. These are the gifts that people crave, the things that remind them of place, but what does that really mean?

For most of the country, home for the holidays is packaged the same way. It’s those delicious cooking smells coming from your grandmother’s kitchen. It’s the pitch-perfect sound of carols being sung by a church choir. It’s a luxury sedan inexplicably given as a surprise to your spouse.

A taste of home can be a little bland, a little commercial -- but it doesn’t have to be, not in West Virginia.

Sure, the Mountain State has all of the usual holiday trimmings. In fact, we probably have more than most. We’ve got lots of rivers to go over and woods to get through on our way to Grandma’s house. And with an aging population,

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