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W.Va.'s First Lady Of Gospel Dies At 75

Mount Hope native Ethel Caffie-Austin died on Dec. 11  She started playing the piano when she was six years old and by nine was accompanying her minister father during his services. While studying ...

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Remembering Travis Stimeling, A WVU Professor, Scholar Of American Music, Musician And Friend 

In walked Travis Stimeling. Burly and ebullient, Stimeling grew up playing guitar in church as a child in Buckhannon, West Virginia, then went on to study trombone in college. That eventually led to a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a teaching gig at Millikin University in Illinois.

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