 In Hillsboro, WV, The Little Levels Heritage Fair and the
Pearl S. Buck International Writers’ Workshop gather the
threads of life. This community weaves and frames
pieces of their heritage into a celebration of Pearl S. Buck
and West Virginia living. Each single thread—human
enterprise past and future--like the threads on the loom in the Sydenstricker
House, birthplace of Pearl S. Buck’s father—complete the tapestry of
this annual celebration.
The large Loom overpowers a room in the Sydenstricker
House. Single threads align vertically flowing into a complete woven fabric. Imagination leads one to see single thread as a part life.
Each thread symbolizes the earth, farm land, human
hardship, enterprise, unions, fortune and misfortune, human emotions--happiness, sadness, anger, frustration, loneliness, companionship and joy. Student writers and storytellers along with instructors, and the community meet to talk and write
about each of these single threads, the fabric
of human life.
This community takes each single thread-- like the Greenbrier River flowing to join the New River—join each single thread to complete this whole celebration tapestry.
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