Ramp Festival, Richwood, WV

[Tanuki]

Sorry for the short notice. It's tomorrow, but there's always next year!
http://www.richwooders.com/ramp/ramps.htm
You can also find lots of recipes featuring the (extremely) pungent onion/garlic relative, that grows wild in high elevations of Appalachia, at the link. Even Martha Stewart is cooking with ramps!

[Staph]

1. There used to be a "weakly" paper in West Virginia . . .

called the West Virginia Hillbilly, published by a real character named Jim Comstock, a native of Richwood. To promote the ramp festival one year, he published the local newspaper with ramp juice included in the printer's ink. To quote Goldenseal Magazine:

According to Comstock, "We got a reprimand from the Postmaster General ... And we are probably the only paper in the United States that's under oath to the federal government not to smell bad".

[theHandpuppet]

2. I have to say I tried ramps once

There won't be a second time. I was really surprised I didn't like them but perhaps it was the cook and not the ramps.