Bungee Jumping Coming To Harpers Ferry This Spring
A Canadian company plans to open a bungee jumping site at an abandoned quarry in Harpers Ferry this May.
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Great Textbook War
Us & Them: Bidding Farewell To My Unlikely Friend, Alice Moore
Sometimes friendships show up when we don’t expect them. That was true of Us & Them host Trey Kay’s friendship with Alice Moore — a conservative Christian county school board member, who sparked a turbulent textbook controversy in Kay’s home county back in the 1970s. Kay and Moore saw education, religion, homosexuality and Trump very differently, but were still dear friends.
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What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974, it led to violent protests in West Virginia. People…
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A blue state secular liberal and a red state Christian conservative have an unlikely friendshipFrom West Virginia Public Broadcasting, this is "Us & Them"…
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Tonight at 9 p.m. on West Virginia Public RadioFor more than a half a century, citizens of the Lone Star State have had intense, emotional battles over…
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