Switchbacks And Wagon Tracks

Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike is a series of audio history productions that explore life along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, an early toll road through the Appalachian Mountains of Central West Virginia. Featuring first-hand accounts of local elders, this production brings to life voices of the region’s inhabitants in vibrant stories and music. Over ninety oral histories augmented by musical selections and ambient sound recorded especially for the series. Switchbacks And Wagon Tracks: Building the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike takes listeners from Native American experience up to the American Civil War through vivid portrayals by historians and old-timers who remember what their elders told them.