A History of Sandscrest with Nora Edinger and Cheryl Harshman

The story of how 300 or so acres of the Ohio Valley came to be an Episcopal retreat center called Sandscrest might best be described as a set of nesting dolls. In some ways, each new era was informed by the previous one. But, each of these times was also fashioned in a way that left the past hidden from sight except for a common shape. This shape seems to be the land itself – ancient forest; a life-sustaining river; energy buried in various, knotted-up forms. It’s there -- an ongoing-if-whispered suggestion that opportunity is ripe for the picking.

You may also like the following events from Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library:

• Next Tuesday, 17th June, 10:30 am, Bloomsday in Wheeling Film Screening! in Wheeling
• Next Tuesday, 17th June, 12:00 pm, Bloomsday in Wheeling 2025! Lunch With Bloom! in Wheeling
• This month, 24th June, 12:00 pm, Dysart Woods: A Story of "Leaving it Alone" in Wheeling