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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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Standing Up for West Virginia
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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Mind the Gap
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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Talking Shop
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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Happy Hour
Legislators make the state’s liquor distribution system more palatable to small distillers. West Virginia’s secret government warehouse isn’t quite what I thought it would be. It was easily visible from the interstate, although I suppose that could be part of a hiding-in-plainsight strategy. Driving past on a two-lane road, I could see two sides of the warehouse are lined with…
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