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Today, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia is a hotspot for American history buffs. But 165 years before any tourists came to town, fighters here clashed in a prelude to the United States Civil War.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAmtrak is combining the Capitol Limited and Silver Star trains temporarily to accommodate a tunnel reconstruction project in New York.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Jefferson County Commission voted unanimously to grant a luxury hotel project a special tax status. The hotel will assume the site of a historic hotel that fell into disrepair.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis week on Inside Appalachia, members of a Ukrainian Catholic church in Wheeling, West Virginia, make pierogies every week. Also, Salem, Virginia's Flat Five Studio got its first big break when the Dave Matthews Band was searching for a quiet place to record its first album. And, a longtime Bigfoot hunter believes his first encounter with the mythical monster happened when he was a kid.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Week, we spend some time in the Eastern Panhandle and learn about a new Battlefield Park, hear from a Harpers Ferry author and explore the unknown future of the John Brown Wax Museum. We also travel to Morgantown to experience a Silent Book Club, and then south to Logan County to check out the hopes riding on the inaugural Governor’s School for Tourism.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe John Brown Wax Museum in Harpers Ferry has permanently closed. Its building was sold to a private retailer, and its owner is still looking for a buyer for the wax figure collection.
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