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Pearl S. Buck Conference Announced

 

The West Virginia Humanities Council and West Virginia University say the first three-day “Living Gateway” conference will begin Sept. 11 at the Erickson Alumni Center at WVU. 

The title of the conference refers to Buck’s Pocahontas County birthplace. In her book “My Mother’s House,” Buck called for the family home to live again and said it was her own “gateway to America.”

Buck was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. Her book “The Good Earth” won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize.

 

The West Virginia Humanities Council said in a statement that tours of Buck’s manuscript collection at WVU will be offered during the conference. There will also be panel discussions around her work.

Traveling Sports Exhibit on W.Va. Tour

  A traveling exhibit on the role of sports in American culture is making its way across West Virginia.

The West Virginia Humanities Council is sponsoring a state tour of the new Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams.”

Officials selected six museums and cultural and community organizations to host the exhibit and provide public programs about their local sports culture.

The exhibit will be on display at the Preston County Sports Museum in the Szilagyi Center in Rowlesburg through Saturday.

It began at the Parkersburg Art Center in February and then moved to the Larry Joe Harless Community Center in Gilbert.

The other remaining sites are:  the Randolph County Community Arts Center, the Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center and the Morgantown History Museum.

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