New River Gorge National Park Wins Coveted Travel Ranking
The New River Gorge National Park and Preserve has been listed as the nation's top underrated travel destination by U.S. News and World Report.
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Stickers And The Trouble With Indian Creek, Inside Appalachia
This week on Inside Appalachia, we meet a West Virginia artist who designs stickers, t-shirts, patches and pins. She draws on classic Appalachian phrases her family has used for years. Also, people who live near Indian Creek in southern West Virginia say something is wrong with the water. Tests show contamination from a nearby mine.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAppalachian Author Wins A Pulitzer On This West Virginia Morning
On this West Virginia Morning, Kentucky author Barbara Kingsolver won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her newest novel Demon Copperhead. In light of this achievement, we are listening back to our interview with Kingsolver last fall, when she was recognized as the 2022 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence at Shepherd University.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsNew Book Tells Inside Story Of Beginnings Of Opioid Crisis
Former Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Eric Eyre won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his investigation into how drug distributors pumped powerful opioids…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsInvestigative Reporter Talks Opioid Lawsuits, Upcoming Book
Community-based efforts can make a real impact in the fight against the opioid epidemic and could benefit from additional funding. One question, though,…
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December 20, 1999: Newspaperman Jack Maurice Dies in Charleston at Age 86
Newspaperman Jack Maurice died in Charleston on December 20, 1999, at age 86. Maurice was born in 1913 in the McDowell County coal town of Vivian. During…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOctober 19, 1949: Writer Richard Currey Born in Parkersburg
Writer Richard Currey was born in Parkersburg on October 19, 1949. He served as navy medical corpsman from 1968 to 1972 and also studied at West Virginia…
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