The Huntington Quarterly was founded in the fall of 1989 as a positive voice for Huntington, West Virginia, and surrounding region. The premier issue featured an autumn painting of Ritter Park by local artist Adele Thornton Lewis, a profile of civic leader A. Michael Perry, a look back to when John F. Kennedy campaigned in Huntington, the fall and rise of Marshall football and more.
The magazine was founded by Jack Houvouras, a 1988 graduate of Marshall University’s School of Journalism. The fledgling business started out in a 75-square-foot office in downtown Huntington where Houvouras and some of his friends from Marshall’s journalism program wrote articles, reviewed color slides and designed the magazine on a Macintosh computer with a 9-inch monochrome monitor.
In the years since it premiered, the magazine has grown in size and reach aided by improved technology, a talented staff, gifted freelance writers and photographers, loyal advertisers and devoted subscribers.
Today, the Huntington Quarterly staff remains committed to telling the positive stories of this unique community. Having recently celebrated our 30th anniversary, we look forward to what the next three decades hold for both the city and its namesake magazine.
The magazine is published every spring, summer, fall and winter.