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

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    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

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    MILTON, W.Va. — Breece D’J Pancake soared like a meteor through the American literary universe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Kurt Vonnegut...

    West Virginia Film Office marks thrilling anniversary with Hollywood momentum

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    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

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    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

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    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"

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    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

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

    Birds art installation brings color to endangered W.Va. historic district

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    BECKLEY, W.Va. — A flock of oversized birds has descended on this West Virginia city at the edge of...
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    Remarkable encounter: John Brown’s final moments witnessed by Stonewall Jackson

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