Traveling 219

Traveling 219 is a web-based multi-media project documenting stories from communities along US Route 219 in West Virginia and Maryland. Following the tradition of the Federal Writers’ Project from the 1930s, Traveling 219 collects stories and helps put more local voices from those communities on the radio, newspapers, and the web.

From 2011 through 2016, writers collected and shared photos and written, audio, and video stories of life and traditions along US 219, the old route of the Seneca Trail. Sponsored by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Pocahontas County Free Libraries, West Virginia Humanities Council, AFHA AmeriCorps, and local CVBs among many others, this project had a goal of documenting rural America in the spirit of the New Deal Federal Writers' Project.

Visit the Traveling219 Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/traveling219