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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House Debate On Human Trafficking Bill Notes Immigration Crisis
The proposal defines "illegal alien" and “human smuggling,” noting that people being transported, or harbored, are, under the bill’s terminology, illegal aliens. Smugglers either knowingly transport these individuals into West Virginia or transport and harbor those already in West Virginia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEthiopian And Eritrean Immigrants Bring A Piece Of Home To Moorefield With Traditional Coffee Ceremony
Moorefield, West Virginia, is home to about 3,300 people — about one in 10 are immigrants. That includes a small community from Eritrea and Ethiopia. Many of them work at the chicken processing plant in town, Pilgrim’s Pride. The hours there are long and don’t leave much time for socializing. Still, members of that East African community continue to practice a tradition they’ve brought from home: the coffee ceremony. Folkways reporter Clara Haizlett brings us this story, with help from former West Virginia state folklorist Emily Hilliard.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsImmigrant ‘Concentration Camps’ on the Southern Border?
U.S. immigration policies are very much in the spotlight recently with reports on conditions at some of the southern border detention camps and fresh…
Continue Reading Take Me to More News'I Am a Dirty Immigrant': One Man's Journey From the West Indies to West Virginia
A memoir called “I Am a Dirty Immigrant” is the story of one man’s journey from the West Indies to West Virginia. Anderson Charles grew up in a tightly…
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