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On September 7, 1955, the great fiddler Edden Hammons died at age 80. The Pocahontas County native was part of an extended family known for its music and traditional ways.
The family had migrated into the Webster-Pocahontas county area just before the Civil War.
In 1947, Edden Hammons was recorded by folklorist and West Virginia University professor Louis Chappell in a Richwood hotel room. The resulting 52 tunes document a frontier fiddling tradition with links to the Old World. Here’s a sample:
Most of these tunes were later released as record albums by West Virginia University Press. These 52 tunes are the only known recordings of the great Edden Hammons.
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On this week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes The Jayhawks, Tift Merritt, Tanasi, and Candi Jenkins to the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, WV.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSharp federal limits on radio frequency interference have made it very challenging for emergency crews in two counties to communicate effectively in a crisis.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTwo federally important facilities located in West Virginia require a strict limit on radio frequency interference. But for decades – increasingly as communication systems have become more advanced – those limits have made it difficult for emergency crews and first responders in Pendleton and Pocahontas counties to do their jobs as safely and effectively as possible. Now the results of a lengthy federal study show exactly how precarious the situation is. We caught up with Pendleton County Emergency Management’s Rick Gillespie to find out what the study shows and what happens next.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe results of a two-year federal study confirm a significant gap in mobile and portable radio coverage for two West Virginia counties.
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