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What's the story behind BearWobble's name? See article toward bottom of page.

The year was 1950, give or take a couple. The setting was a gritty, isolated coal camp in Fayette County, West Virgina known as Brooklyn. Until the mid 50s, virtually every structure in Brooklyn was owned by Scotia Coal. Most houses were jammed into rows around a steep bowl, punctuated with narrow hollows deeply carved over the ages by numerous small brooks or 'runs'. The bottom of this bowl was flat enough to accommodate a few more houses, a small Presbyterian chapel, and a marshy field populated with cattails, frogs & salamanders - plus a generous supply of mud for youthful play. In spite of its material deficits, Brooklyn seemed blessed with a sense of peace and harmony uncommon to coal camps of that era.

Each July, three young boys would invade Brooklyn for a week of adventure with their grandparents. Ground zero was a small brook that meandered down by the chapel and into the marsh. One lazy afternoon while playing in the brook, the youngest of the three claimed to have spied a bear cub wobbling along upstream, snorting and splashing its retreat through the shallow water. In spite of clear and detailed descriptions, the older boys never acknowledged this bear, nor was the bear's presence ever verified by paw prints, scat or other physical evidence. Yet, from that time forth, the brook that still runs along the little chapel in Brooklyn West Virginia would be forever known as Bearwobble - if only by a small, select group of adventurers and story tellers.

Epilogue:

Today, you'll find the remains of Brooklyn near Mount Hope and Oak Hill, WV just over the hill from New River Gorge and about 4 miles north of the 10,600 acre Bechtel Family Scout Reserve - the new permanent home of the National Boy Scout Jamboree.

The grandparents and chapel in Brooklyn where they worked brought much needed peace and comfort to the valley and other West Virginia coal camps during the turbulent 40s and 50s. Today, the company store and most of Brooklyn's hillside houses are long gone. Yet, the magic of the brook and the bear lives on. For a few, Bearwobble will always be a small mountain stream with a bear cub wobbling through its shallow waters on a lazy summer day. For ANYONE seeking a friendly and peaceful place, Bearwobble is whatever, whenever and wherever they may wish it to be.

The bond between BearWobble.Com and this story of the the brook and the bear remains strong Our offices are in a small historic building in Martinsburg, WV - gateway to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Washington, DC is about 2 hours to the east; Brooklyn WV is about 5 hours to the southwest. Revenues from BearWobble.Com enable the Appalachian Institute to carry out a variety of economic and cultural development projects in the region.