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The History Of ‘Amazing Grace,’ This West Virginia Morning

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On this West Virginia Morning, in the latest episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay learns the history of a song that’s become a universal anthem of hope and forgiveness. “Amazing Grace” was first written as a Christian hymn, and its beginnings in America come in the early 1800s. That’s when people traveled to revivals to worship with preachers from various denominations.

Also, the governor and the state attorney general have both issued letters of support for a new water rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and nationwide flu cases are higher than they’ve been in 25 years.

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Eric Douglas produced this episode.

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