Qualla: Marlinton https://qualla.com/marlinton en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Marlinton https://qualla.com/marlinton Marlinton: Introduction https://qualla.com/marlinton/ On a Saturday morning every September, the air in downtown Marlinton smells like nothing else in America. Smoke from cooking fires drifts up Main Street, and the dishes simmering on those fires include groundhog, opossum, rattlesnake, bear, and turtle. This is the Roadkill Cook-Off, started in 1991 as a tourism joke that nobody quite expected to keep working. It works. Cooks now come from across the country to compete, and the audience comes to taste. Marlinton is a town of about 960 people. For one weekend a year, it gets to be famous - or infamous - for an idea its tourism board threw at the wall and watched stick.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/1/marlinton-wk/dnz1-marlinton-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Marlinton: Birthplace of the Rivers https://qualla.com/marlinton/ Marlinton is the county seat of Pocahontas County, which is known locally as the Birthplace of the Rivers. The local boast is geographically defensible: the Greenbrier, the Cherry, the Elk, the Cheat, the Gauley, the Tygart, the Williams, and the Cranberry all originate from spri...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/1/marlinton-wk/dnz1-marlinton-birthplace-of-the-rivers.mp3 0:06 2 full Marlinton: The Cook-Off That Got Out of Hand https://qualla.com/marlinton/ The Roadkill Cook-Off is held in late September as part of the Autumn Harvest Festival. Cooking begins at 11 AM, judging at 3 PM. The competition allows dishes made from animals commonly found on the side of the road - turkey, opossum, squirrel, rabbit, groundhog, bear, deer, boa...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/1/marlinton-wk/dnz1-marlinton-the-cook-off-that-got-out-of-hand.mp3 0:06 3 full Marlinton: Joke, Stereotype, and Sustaining a Town https://qualla.com/marlinton/ The Cook-Off has drawn criticism for playing on a negative stereotype of Appalachian poverty - the kind of stereotype that treats hardscrabble traditions as a punchline rather than as adaptation. The criticism is fair. The defense is also fair: this is a town of fewer than a thou...

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