Shepherd University has named a native West Virginian to its first “storyteller-in-residence” position, with an eye on sharing Appalachian folklore with the world. Adam Booth, a native West Virginian, has been awarded the position and will use his skills to help reflect the region’s culture and heritage through stories, according […]
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Normally Robert Villamagna would be in his art studio in Wheeling, West Virginia, hammering out old metal pieces from children’s toys, chip cans and coffee canisters that he finds at local flea markets. He has made artwork out of scrap metal for decades and was named West Virginia Artist of […]
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Amid the rolling hills and strip-mined mountain tops that stretch through Logan County, West Virginia is Route 10 — a newer highway that was 20 years in the making. It made road travel in southern West Virginia more accessible, but it also replaced the McDonald airfield. And like most airports […]
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Just outside Fayetteville, West Virginia, there’s a 42-acre farm that has just about everything — chickens, lambs, sheep, produce and dogs. The latest addition is a litter of Great Pyrenees puppies, who will become guardian dogs for the sheep. Christine Weirick owns and operates Deep Mountain Farm with her husband […]
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Across the country, medical professionals fighting the coronavirus pandemic are struggling to get their hands on protective gear – things as basic as goggles, gloves and masks – and without federal assistance, groups of West Virginians are handmaking face masks at their own expense. In the past weeks, President Trump said the […]
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The West Virginia elk reintroduction program is four years in, and the project is not growing as fast as expected; however, there is a herd in the southern coalfields that is slowly getting bigger. Much of West Virginia’s elk reintroduction program is modeled after Kentucky’s, which is more than 20 […]
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