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Arts & Culture Mason Adams, Oct. 29, 2025

New YA Novel Captures Mystery, Coming Of Age In Green Bank, W.Va.

A new novel for young adults captures a slice of life in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The Secret Astronomers tells the story of a friendship between two high school students as they unravel a decades-old mystery. It’s the debut novel by Jessica Walker.

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Arts & Culture Bill Lynch, Oct. 23, 2025

'Paranormal Kentucky' Takes Readers On Haunted Hunt

"Paranormal Kentucky, An Uncommon Wealth of Close Encounters with Aliens, Ghosts and Cryptids" was written by Marie Mitchell and Mason Smith, a pair of retired Eastern Kentucky University professors turned paranormal investigators.

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Arts & Culture Liz McCormick, Oct. 02, 2025

Appalachian Author Reflects On Heritage, Portrayal Of Cherokee In Literature

Author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle sat down with Eastern Panhandle Bureau Chief Liz McCormick to discuss her background, her debut novel and the importance of reclaiming Cherokee identity through literature. Clapsaddle is the 2025 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence at Shepherd University.

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Health & Science WVPB Staff, Aug. 27, 2025

Remembering Justice Armstead And Examining Appalachia’s Water Crisis, This West Virginia Morning

Tim Armstead, former Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court of Appeals who also served in the House of Delegates, died Tuesday.

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Arts & Culture Mason Adams, Aug. 12, 2025

Comics Project Seeks To Tell Appalachia’s Story, Beginning With Hurricane Helene

When Hurricane Helene struck Western North Carolina in 2024, it knocked out internet and cell service. That created an information gap that was quickly filled by conspiracy theories and misinformation. Now, a new project looks to tell the truth of the disaster. Islands in the Sky is a forthcoming comics anthology about the storm and its aftermath. The book will feature stories told by survivors in partnership with comics professionals. Islands in the Sky was conceived by North Carolina comics writer Andrew Aydin. Inside Appalachia Host Mason Adams spoke with Aydin about the project.

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Arts & Culture Randy Yohe, Aug. 06, 2025

Appalachian String Band Music Festival Bridges Generations

The Appalachian String Band Festival is an annual celebration at Fayette County’s historic Camp Washington-Carver. The camp serves as West Virginia’s mountain cultural arts center and a fitting backdrop for the five-day festival. Randy Yohe takes us to the crowning event of the string band fest, where old-time mountain music bridges generations into a worldwide fiddle and banjo community.

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