Welcome to Mustard Seed Mountain’s website! My name is Niamh Coomey and I am the new editor of the Wheeling, West Virginia street newspaper working to destigmatize homelessness one story at a time. After a two-year hiatus, me and a team of awesome volunteers and nonprofit workers with the Mother Jones Center for Resilient Community are working on bringing regular editions of the paper back into publication.
The White House Historical Association recently opened a new, cutting-edge education experience in Washington, D.C., a first-of-its-kind, immersive center telling the story of the Executive Mansion, its inhabitants, and the people who have dedicated their careers to its functions.
Jaclyn Gillispie and Amy Davis, both 43, share a lot of similarities. Together, they realized their potential and began climbing up from the darkest points of their lives hand in hand.
For a woman, life on the streets offers no glamor or beauty. Surviving outside amongst the elements takes grit, strength, and a special kind of resilient spirit that many of the unhoused women in Wheeling possess.
Mustard Seed Mountain is West Virginia’s first street newspaper, bringing you stories from and for the poor, working, and misunderstood.
Come party to support the relaunch of West Virginia's first street paper, Mustard Seed Mountain!
Join us at the Urban Collective on Friday, May 15 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for a night of live music from Stone Campus, Mocktails from Midge's Kitchen, exclusive merch offerings, readings from our spring issue and other activities!