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Here's how West Virginia has contributed to American Country Music

Arts Clyde Craig - September 15, 2025

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — On a typical Saturday night in the 1930s, when coal dust and church bells marked the rhythm of daily life, radios...

From Greenbrier Valley to global fame, the defiant jazz legacy of Ada "Bricktop" Smith

Arts David Sibray - July 24, 2025

ALDERSON, W.Va. — Perhaps few people could have predicted that one of the most electrifying figures of the Jazz Age would emerge in a...

The writer who captured Appalachian tragedy—and couldn't escape it

Arts Cody Straley - July 20, 2025

MILTON, W.Va. — Breece D’J Pancake soared like a meteor through the American literary universe in the late 1970s...

West Virginia Film Office marks thrilling anniversary with Hollywood momentum

Arts David Sibray - July 16, 2025

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Film Office quietly turned three years old in 2025, but the celebration is...

Hewn log cabins are West Virginia's ultimate historic architecture

Arts David Sibray - June 29, 2025

SAULSVILLE, W.Va. — Perhaps no other form of architecture is more strongly associated with West Virginia than the old-fashioned...

The house that tobacco built: Mail Pouch campaign launched in West Virginia

Arts David Sibray - June 26, 2025

WHEELING, W.VA. — Perhaps the most fantastic Victorian residence ever built in West Virginia was that of the founder...

Tyler Childers performs old song by rebel West Virginia fiddler "Devil Sol"

Arts William Kerrigan - June 5, 2025

CLAY, W.Va. — In 2020, Kentucky fiddler Tyler Childers released his fourth studio album, Long Violent History, a collection...

Statue of Abraham Lincoln at West Virginia Capitol took years to realize

Arts David Sibray - May 26, 2025

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There is perhaps no more extraordinary place of honor for a statue in West Virginia than...

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