We made a wrong turn and ended up in Sutton and found out about the resident alien Braxxie. Apparently in 1952 some people saw a red light flash across the sky and land in nearby Flatwoods. They went up there and saw a tall figure with red eyes, a pointed hood and green draped fabric. It glided toward them and they ran. He is Braxxie. Welcome to Flatwoods, home of the green monster, a Braxxie billboard, downtown Sutton with brick main street, and the ceramic Braxxie lamps they have been selling as souvenirs since 1963. The visitors center/monster museum is in the old historic drug store.
Sue with Braxxie at the visitors center, John with one of the 5 Braxxie chairs around the county and me sitting in one. We got candy at the Walmart in the next town and back at camp where they were having a Halloween event trick or treaters came around in the rain.
John handing out candy, wrapped up from the cold and rain. John took this photo of me with my superwoman costume on over the candy bowl.
It is kind of weird to see a RV park all decorated like this. Many of the people come every year for this campout and event. There is a prize for the best decorated campsite and the best costume. The lady across the street, this camo guy looked fake, but when the kids got close he moved and raised his ax, a skeleton dog biting a skeleton in the tree, a puppeteer handing out candy, these two women came from an hour away, they love this event.
John handing out candy and with Dolly Parton, our neighbor.
The costumes were cute, two adorable dogs in costume, a shark and his kids, these two women were freezing to death, I almost got killed when I called these Union soldiers Confederates, cut kids and a truck with legs hanging out the front and a witch run into the windshield.
We went to Weston, West Virginia to see the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. It was built in the 1800 as the Weston Hospital. It is supposed to be haunted. They give historic tours but since it is halloween they are doing wacky stuff and it was packed with people so we left. During the civil war both sides military used it, mostly as horse barns, the town was captured by both sides. Then it became a veterans hospital and an insane asylum. We went to the glass museum instead, which was the real reason we came to Weston.
The museum was pretty amazing. It had all things glass. All handmade and all the West Virginia companies, but many more too. West Virginia was at one time the glass capital. It has a good supply of silica sand and natural glass. There were at one time 26 glass companies, but now only a couple. The Blenko man, made from items made at Blenko Glass company. A glass piece from each state, cool glass dishes, Sparkey which was a bunch of glass rondells with wool at the ends, if you turn the crank it creates static electricity. It is attached to a head set and the sign says High Voltage electrostatic generator "prototype rehabilitator, Warning use only on criminally insane". Laboratory glassware.
A manual mold, you put hot glass in the mold, turn the crank and it forms the glass piece. Birds on the courthouse roof- not glass, and how to make glass eyes exhibit.
Glass research library, glass syringes, a glass house, corning ware and more lab glass, glassware, paper weights, marbles and a companies array of colors.
Mouth blown light bulbs, TV tubes, cranberry hob nail glassware, an old map of the West Virginia glass companies, glass fruit and cake knives and a glass space shuttle tile.
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