Remembering Osage’s Lively Past And Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, just across the river from Morgantown is the small unincorporated community of Osage. Folkways reporter Clara Haizlett looks at the love of music that enduring in the formerly bustling community for the latest episode of Inside Appalachia.

Also, this week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage features the 70 plus member West Virginia Symphony, under the musical direction of Maurice Cohn. Our Song of the Week is “Michael from Mountains” performed by Judy Collins. She sings the song, originally written by Joni Mitchell, with accompaniment from the West Virginia Symphony.

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Eric Douglas is our news director. Teresa Wills is our host. Maria Young produced this episode.

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