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BearWobble: The story behind our name.
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, one 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 other 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.
Notes:
Today, you'll find the remains of Brooklyn 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 some, 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 one may wish it to be.
BearWobble.Com has a very personal connection to this story of the brook and the bear. Our store is situated in a small historic building in Martinsburg, WV - gateway to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Washington, DC is about 1 hour 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.
From right: Annie Foard, Rev. William Foard (1963) New River Gorge (near Brooklyn, West Virginia)
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BearWobble.Com focuses on products that enhance your quality of life, that save you money, that are friendly to the planet. We actively seek out such products made here in the USA. All products are attractively priced, of highest value, and thoroughly evaluated by Appalachian Institute before being offered to our customers.
NEW PRODUCT REVIEW FEATURE: Since upgrading our storefront on 12/9/09, customers can now submit their own Product Reviews. This feature is accessible from any product page. Under product picture, just click WRITE REVIEW. Please see guidelines at bottom of this page.
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