About Two Waters
Local history. All of it.
The beauty and the heartbreak. The proud moments and the uncomfortable ones. The stories we know by heart, and the ones still waiting for someone to ask. There is room for all of it here.
A place between two waters
The rivers meet.
The stories mingle.
Tu-Endie-Wei is a Wyandotte name translated as “point between two waters.” Here in Point Pleasant, the Ohio and Kanawha meet. Two Waters takes its name from that confluence: a place where people, histories and different ways of seeing have always crossed paths.
This country holds a great deal at once. Indigenous history and frontier conflict. River towns and industrial ambition. Ingenuity, loss, resilience and a few stories that refuse to settle down. We follow those threads through research, tours and storytelling, with room for a good laugh along the way.
History is something to engage with. Walk the ground. Read the old account. Ask whose voice is missing. Bring your own memory to the conversation. Keeping a story alive means letting people take part in it.
The name Tu-Endie-Wei · WV State Parks
Where the waters mingle
A local,
telling stories.
For nearly three decades, Mary Hyre reported from Point Pleasant for The Athens Messenger. Her column, Where the Waters Mingle, paid attention to life as it happened here: ordinary days, strange encounters, and the grief of the Silver Bridge disaster.
Mingled Waters is a spiritual successor to that local storytelling tradition. The connection begins with the same impulse: live in a place, listen to its people, and follow a story wherever it leads.
Two Waters explores the region through history, visits and field notes. Mingled Waters takes the longer, stranger road: documentary stories, folklore and grounded possibilities, with the record close at hand. Research gives us something to stand on. Curiosity gives us somewhere to go.
Step into Mingled Waters Mary Hyre's reporting · West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Michael Treadway
This is home.
Come have a look.
I'm a guide, photographer and historical researcher based in Point Pleasant. Two Waters grew out of wanting to share this place in all its contradictions: beautiful, complicated, familiar and occasionally very strange.
A tour ought to be worth your afternoon. A story ought to stay with you. I want you to enjoy yourself, see something you might have missed, and leave with another question worth following.
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