The head of social media at ABC News is from West Virginia. We talked with him about Twitter, journalism, marketing, and the way they all work together. Andrew Springer could predict how this story would begin even during the interview for it. “When you sit down to write this story about me, you’ll pick out the most interesting thing we…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
From Silk to Stability
A textile artist in Elkins learns that art and business can work in tandem. Nellie Rose Davis reads more artist than entrepreneur, more dreamer than utilitarian, more inspired than methodical. Even the creation story of Davis herself sounds magical—she writes in her artist’s statement that as soon as she was born, in Elkins to a pair of textile artists, she…
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The Work in Progress
We’re off and running, but there’s a long road ahead. Community development work isn’t easy. There’s a lot of waiting around for projects to get approved, for money to come in, for people to get on board. A lot of it is dependent on things that are at least partly outside of your control: Will we get approval? Will we…
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Smack In the Middle of Town
When drugs come into our downtowns, businesses suffer. Downtown merchants are fighting back. Mid-June southern West Virginia news brief: “Former Employee Accused of Setting Deli on Fire.” Firefighters spotted the smoke early and doused the downtown Logan blaze before it became serious. Police caught a suspected arsonist and sent him to jail. Crime solved, one might say. But the untold backstory…
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Raising the Stakes
The people of Grafton and Matewan could get up to $150,000 to turn their towns around. Will they? We’re in Matewan, at the United Mine Workers of America headquarters downtown, which is serving as the Turn This Town Around meeting space for the evening. We’ve been there for two hours, watching PowerPoint presentations and talking about grant proposals; it’s now…
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