Flowers for Huntington, WV

Huntington was drawn up as a railroad terminus and it still reads like one from the air — a long, orderly grid of numbered streets and avenues pressed between the Ohio River and the rising ground to the south. That geometry is a gift to a delivery driver. From the downtown blocks around Pullman Square and 4th Avenue it is only a few minutes to the Marshall campus on Hal Greer, up to the tree-lined streets bordering Ritter Park, or west toward St. Mary's; the river wharf, the Old Main district, and the Southside all sit inside a short radius. Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary's Medical Center together generate a steady current of get-well work, and Marshall — the emotional center of this town in a way few college towns manage — keeps the green-and-white bouquets moving for birthdays, initiations, and graduations.

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