LOS OLIVOS, Calif. — Heavy hangs the coonskin cap. It’s been almost 50 years since Fess Parker donned the fuzzy headgear that launched the first blockbuster cultural phenomenon of the baby boom ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gun owners with a conceal carry permit won’t be charged with a misdemeanor for bringing weapons to Coonskin Park. The Kanawha County Parks and Recreation Commission voted ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. –The first park to be built in Kanawha County is preparing to celebrate its 75th anniversary. Coonskin Park, located just 10 minutes from Charleston, will hold a big celebration ...

“WELL,” Fess Parker said, “it’s an interesting thing to live with.” He was talking about having been Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. By the time we met, that was long gone. He was a ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - The deadline is approaching to submit feedback on West Virginia International Yeager Airport’s (CRW) expansion plan, to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — Get ready for the bright lights. After a year hiatus, the twinkling lights of Coonskin Park are returning this year. Kanawha County Parks and Recreation officials said ...

First we had leprechauns in the trees in Alabama, and everyone wanted the gold. Next, we had Antoine Dodson recommending that we hide our kids and hide our wives. And now, the latest in the long line ...

The hat wars are on. As Pharrell's famous Vivienne Westwood "mountain" hat continues to gain bids on eBay (the highest bid is at $14,500), Usher is on a mission to up the crazy hat game. The singer ...

The coonskin cap has been an American favorite from pioneer days to the age of television. Its origins predate the arrival of the white man — the oldest painting of an American Indian shows an ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Improvements years in the planning process at West Virginia International Yeager Airport are now on hold. The airport announced Wednesday its Environmental Impact ...

Fess Parker, whose television portrayal of the American frontiersman Davy Crockett catapulted him to stardom in the mid-1950s and inspired millions of children to wear coonskin caps in one of ...

Today on Trailers from Hell, Larry Karaszewski tackles Ralph Bakshi’s controversial 1975 “Coonskin,” an animated satire on race relations. Ralph Bakshi’s nervy satire on race relations courted ...