Earl Oglebay’s Contribution to Agriculture
Digital Storytelling, Part 3
by Sarah Erstfeld and Jessica Spano
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Our trip to Wheeling, West Virginia was invaluable to us. We not only got to learn about Earl Oglebay, but about our site and Wheeling as well.
Determining the focus of our topic was relatively simple. All of us students were required to do some preliminary research before traveling to Oglebay. While we were researching, we noticed that Oglebay had a huge impact on West Virginia with his farming. We thought that would be interesting to research further. We were surprised when we learned that it isn’t the most covered topic. We found so much interesting information about it. Probably one of the most interesting facts was that he was appointed to be the Federal Food Administrator. We thought that was incredibly fascinating. We also really thought it was cool when his farm had nearly perfect milk. We learned so much from this trip.
