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Host Kathy Mattea welcomes Stephen Kellogg, Emily Scott Robinson, Joe Troop & The Truth Machine, Kindred Valley, and Corduroy Brown to the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center in Huntington, WV on this week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage.
Kathy Garver is a Hollywood survivor. From 1966 to 1971, Garver played Cissy on the TV series “Family Affair.” It involved a New York City playboy and his British butler suddenly surrounded by three children — teenaged Cissy and young twins Buffy and Jody. Anissa Jones who played Buffy died of a drug overdose three years after the show left the air. Kathy Garver has written a book about her Hollywood experience and joined us in our studio earlier this week.
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On this West Virginia Week, the state budget is headed to Gov. Patrick Morrisey, a statewide public camping ban bill moves forward, and Inside Appalachia visits Good Hot Fish.
America continues to wrestle with racial division, but music has often been a space where those barriers are challenged. In this episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay revisits a 1960s moment when a band refused to perform unless a mixed-race couple was allowed to dance — and paid the price for taking that stand. It’s a story about courage, consequences and the uneasy intersection of music and race in America.
On this West Virginia Week, another round of school consolidations in the state, the Republican caucus lays out plans for the upcoming legislative session and a Nashville poet and songwriter channels a connection to LIttle Jimmie Dickens.
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On this West Virginia Week, the body of a missing miner was recovered, guaranteed median income comes to Mercer County, and with Halloween over and Thanksgiving a few weeks away, what can you do with those leftover pumpkins?