West Virginia’s small towns find creative ways to grapple with a growing problem of food insecurity. Fifteen miles on an interstate is a lot different from 15 miles in the middle of Clay or Boone county. A 10-minute drive in larger towns takes you past amenities that require a 30-minute drive out of smaller ones. In 10 minutes, ice cream…
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A new podcast talks with people about the things that divide them. In the first moments of the first episode of Us & Them, a new podcast from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, host Trey Kay makes a phone call. We hear the phone ringing, and then a friendly sounding woman with a sing-songy Southern accent picks up and says hello. “That’s…
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The father of West Virginia finally gets the appreciation he deserves. There’s a good chance that, even if you’re a West Virginian, you’ve never heard of Francis Pierpont. There’s also a good chance that, if not for Francis Pierpont, you wouldn’t be a West Virginian at all, because West Virginia wouldn’t be a state. Today Pierpont is sometimes called the…
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Employers worry a flagging work ethic in West Virginia will hamper future growth. The great virtue of West Virginia workers was never that they were the smartest in the world—although they have proven to be plenty smart. West Virginia workers also never claimed to possess superior strength, although their backs were always strong enough to complete the task at hand….
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At Kin Ship Goods in Charleston, business, creativity, and coziness intersect. The motto at Kin Ship Goods is “stay cozy,” and it suits them. On a sunny but cold Tuesday this spring the store’s owners, Dan Davis and Hillary Harrison, opened up the store so we could talk about their business and their art. Kin Ship, a little shop tucked…
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