How to work with your spouse and stay married. When Bobby and I met in an office nearly nine years ago, I never would have imagined we’d end up married and running a photography business together. We were working at a small startup company in Charleston, and we’d both recently graduated from college. My background is in visual communications—I was the…
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Prohibition-era laws meant to limit access to alcohol now cause headaches for law enforcement trying to crack down on underage drinking. When it came time at long last in 1934 to repeal Prohibition, our conscientious state lawmakers didn’t throw the baby out with the bathtub gin. They were measured. The Legislature would write laws to regulate the manufacture and sale…
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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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