Wednesday our City Manager, the Director of our Bice-Ferguson Memorial Museum, and I left for Huntington for the West Virginia Association of Museums Conference. We booked the farmhouse guesthouse (the Hollyberry Inn) at the Heritage Farm Museum and Village in Huntington. Since it is a 4-bedroom house, we offered the 4th bedroom to the Director of Fort New Salem, a wonderful period 1820 - 1840 museum of log structures that is just 23 miles from Shinnston.This is a great place for a family gathering! They have 4 log guesthouses and the Hollyberry Inn has a 1st floor bedroom so it is handicap accessible - the log houses are not - and all have heat, A/C, complete kitchens w/dishes, pots and pans, and appliances including microwave, and a laundry room. There are 3 buildings filled with tools, room settings, carriages, wagons, cars, train sets, washing machines, etc. of tribute to the common farmer who made a life for himself and tried to make it a better life for his children. There is also a petting zoo, pool for registered guests, trails to walk, and this is near the Radio & Technology Museum, the Huntington Museum of Art, and about 10 minutes to downtown. I usually do not tout another area, but this one is worth it.Come visit Shinnston and see our museum with telephone equipment dating from the 1880s to the current. It is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons.