Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Cover Photo: A breathtaking winter landscape from the top of Cascade, a blue slope located at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. D&E […]
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Ghost Tales from Appalachia: Hallie’s Ghost in Elkins, WV
Cover Photo: Cover of Forward magazine published by Davis & Elkins College courtesy of the Booth Library Special Collections &
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Snowed In in Elkins
Cover Photo: Snowy View from the Wilt Building As snow flurries across Third Street in front of the Augusta office,
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There are a Wild Boar in These Woods
Cover Photo: “A particularly savage wild boar (Sus scrofa) fighting with another over the females behind. Engraving” (Wikimedia Commons 2024)
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Join our Jolly Wassail! – December 7th, 6pm at The Kump House
Cover Photo: “Hedingham Fair’s first Wassail design; ‘Joy come to our Jolly Wassail’, 1997 (Cater 2013:4). As we begin planning
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Tunes on the Tracks: My Time at the October Old-Time Retreat
Last weekend my senses were flooded by the sound of fiddles, the sight of flatfooting, and the exhilaration of square
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The Rise of the Banjo: Part Two of the West Virginia Instrument Anthology
Cover Photo: Horace Weston standing with banjo from 1884 or earlier (Horace Weston 2024). Welcome back to the West Virginia
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Apple Butter Amateur
Cover Photo: ‘Making Apple Butter the Old Fashioned Way, Webster Co., WV’, 1964 Photograph (WV History OnView 2024). With fall
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African Origins of the Banjo: Part One of the West Virginia Instrument Anthology
Cover Photo: “Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, 1893, oil on canvas, 49×35 1/2 inches. Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia”
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PattyFest 2024: Honoring Patty Looman & the music she loved
COVER PHOTO: Hammered dulcimer from Patty Looman’s collection. Photograph by Gerry Milnes. During an interview with Jeff Fedan, one of
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