Bean Hill's Past, Present, and Future

It’s black leather and measures five inches by nine inches, with a firm clasp along the top rim and is filled with a host of things depicting the life of a teen age girl in the 1950s.

The dusty clutch bag was found secreted away in an opening of an interior wall of Canary Labs, a state-of-the-art computer services business.

Started in 1985 by Martinsburg residents Ed and Gary Stern, Canary is described on the company web site as a time-series data base built for industrial automation. Canary develops “solutions from the end user’s perspective.”

For the locals, they are the Stern boys who write...