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Arts & Culture WVPB Staff, About 16 hours ago

W.Va. Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2024

West Virginia’s annual book festival celebrating national and regional authors will come to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center this October.

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Arts & Culture WVPB Staff, May. 17, 2024

A Visit To KY Mountain Laurel Festival And Kim Richey Has Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival in Pineville, Kentucky has staged a formal dance for nearly a century that has remained the same for generations. Folkways Reporter Will Warren takes us for a visit.

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Arts & Culture Mallory Richards, May. 16, 2024

LISTEN: Kim Richey Has The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week

On this week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage, you'll hear performances from Bettye LaVette, Kim Richey, Keller Williams, The Langan Band, and Megan Jean’s Secret Family. This episode was recorded live at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium in Athens, Ohio.

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Arts & Culture Jack Walker, May. 13, 2024

Armstead Declares May ‘Treatment Court Month’

Tim Armstead, chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, declared May 'Treatment Court Month' to recognize an alternative to incarceration that addresses substance use disorder.

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Arts & Culture Bill Lynch +, May. 13, 2024

Encore: The Climbing Climate And Paddle Making, Inside Appalachia

This week on Inside Appalachia, rock climbers with disabilities have found a home in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge, which offers some pumpy crags. Climbers have also been working to make West Virginia's New River Gorge more inclusive. And a master craftsman, who makes one of a kind whitewater paddles remembers some advice.

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Arts & Culture Emily Rice, May. 10, 2024