On this West Virginia Morning, an experimental apple orchard in the state is helping to fight pollution, improve food scarcity and some hope even heal veterans. Briana Heaney has the story.
Literary giant T.S. Eliot was a fan of comedic genius Groucho Marx and vice versa.
It is thought that expectations of one another thawed what could have been a spectacular meeting of the minds.
This BBC special is part history and part speculation about their friendship. King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk created this work as well as the music.
After a correspondence beginning in 1961, after a number of failed attempts to arrange a meeting, Eliot and Marx had dinner at Eliot’s flat in 1964.
From the BBC site:
"After a number of failed arrangements, in June 1964, a car arrives at the Savoy to collect Groucho and his wife to take them the short distance to Eliot's home for the much-awaited dinner. Yet such is the nature of celebrity that when Groucho quoted lines from Eliot's The Wasteland back to him, he was uninterested, and Groucho, in turn, was unable to recall the scene from Duck Soup that Eliot particularly loved. They parted, disappointed and a little dejected."
Artists are and are not their work. First and foremost, they are people. It’s too bad Tom and Groucho could not let go of their image of the other.
On the same day the YWCA Charleston had a Race to End Racism in the capitol city, a group of men from the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched through the streets of downtown.
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On this West Virginia Week, Earth Day was Monday. We’ll hear from a hydrologist about the state’s rivers. We’ll learn more about why two leading candidates for governor are trading accusations in ads over transgender youth. And we’ll visit a community in southern West Virginia affected by contaminated water.
A Boone County teen was found deceased in her home earlier this month. Police say she was emaciated to a near skeletal state. It's now come to light via a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by West Virginia Watch that the child was being homeschooled.
The state Department of Environmental Protection has filed a motion in federal court to intervene in a proposed settlement to limit mining pollutants in streams.
At the heart of the issue is the Guyandotte River and the alleged failure of the DEP to administer water testing and limits for ionic toxicity in 11 state streams that affect 100,000 people. As a result, conservation groups filed a lawsuit.