State-by-State: West Virginia

The goal this year was to "discover" 25 states in the Discover America State-by-State series.  We have reached #20, the end of the school year, and one very tired mom!

"M may appear like Mountains---

peaks reaching for the sky.

Our nickname is the Mountain State.

It's easy to see why."

-M is for Mountain State: A West Virginia Alphabet

 

 If you do an internet search for the food that West Virginia is famous for, Pepperoni Rolls will come up!  The pepperoni roll is an unexpected little West Virginia specialty that was reportedly invented in Fairmont in 1927, and was often used as a miner's lunch in early days.

Instead of cutting our pepperoni roll into "squares" to bake at this point, we bent the roll to form a snake because we had just read:

"Then everything happened so fast it was a blur. The snake gave a menacing rattle. Mariana threw the rock at it and missed. The snake whipped its head around, shot forward, and struck Mariana on the arm with its fangs."  

~ Happy Birthday, Josefina!