Parkersburg mediates between Ohio River industrial legacy and Wood County small-town identity. Downtown rooms fill with families who've worked the chemical plants for generations, while Market Street hosts the workers navigating the economic transition. Vienna-adjacent draws the suburban overflow. South Parkersburg and Lubeck add the residential layers. The comedy here reads the tension between industrial memory and reinvention. Open mics become the space where both timelines converge. Comics who grasp Parkersburg's dual rhythm find audiences relieved someone recognized the city keeps its river-town soul while the economy shifts beneath it.