Brian Casto has taught an eighth-grade West Virginia Studies class at Milton Middle School for the past four years, but has recently ventured down unfamiliar roads in order to spark his students’ curiosity about the Mountain State’s rich history through a series of animated lessons on his YouTube channel titled “West Virginia History in Two Minutes or Less.”
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Mountain Stage Archive
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This podcast revisits a 2012 live show recorded in Huntington, West Virginia, and includes an extended hour-long set from folk legend Arlo Guthrie. -
On this West Virginia Morning, we take a closer look at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent announcement about masks and fully vaccinated people. We explore how this news is playing out in West Virginia. Also, the governor plans to opt out of a federally funded unemployment benefit program next month, and we have a conversation about aging water systems in small towns in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
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A World War II veteran who passed away recently has proven that it’s possible to keep helping others by giving the gift of life and becoming the oldest recorded organ donor in United States history.
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Lawyers being admitted to practice in West Virginia would recite a pledge of civility under a proposal by the state Supreme Court. Supreme Court Chief Justice Evan Jenkins signed an order Monday that would put the proposal out for public comment, the court said in a news release. The court will review the comments and decide on final adoption.
Mountain Stage
Brian Blauser
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Mountain Stage
Mountain Stage looks back to 2010 with a special archive episode featuring Lizz Wright, The Holmes Brothers, Raul Midón, Fruit Bats, The Paper Raincoat, and Deolinda.
- From 2012: Patterson Hood, Van Dyke Parks, Teitur, Randall Bramblett, and Caroline Aiken
- Mountain Stage Announces Live Shows With Limited In-Person Audience
- Listen: Arlo Guthrie Has The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week
- From 2015: Rhiannon Giddens, The SteelDrivers, Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller, Sam Gleaves, And Alice Gerrard
Inside Appalachia
Kyle Vass
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In this week’s episode of Inside Appalachia, we’ll talk with West Virginia native, Anna Sale. And we’ll hear from teenagers in Charleston who lost their friend to gun violence. We’ll hear the history behind Mother’s Day, and we’ll go on a nature hike with biologists who are restoring wetlands for frogs and salamanders.
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A year from now, Ryan McFarland will don a cap and gown and walk across the stage at the University of Charleston, located along the Kanawha River across from the statehouse's shiny golden dome.The Pleasants County native will then be confronted by two decisions: law school or graduate school? Stay in West Virginia or leave?
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This comes after guidance from federal health officials Thursday saying Americans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus can leave their face coverings at home.
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First lady Jill Biden visited Charleston Thursday to promote the coronavirus vaccine.
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Biden says, "Today is a great day for America and our long battle with coronavirus. ... It's been made possible by the extraordinary success we've had in vaccinating so many Americans so quickly."
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On this West Virginia Morning, First Lady Jill Biden is expected to arrive in West Virginia Thursday, but what is The Office of the First Lady anyway? We explore its role. Also, no one has yet received the governor’s promised $100 savings bond for getting the COVID-19 vaccine, and we have a conversation about trees and pollution.
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Air pollution can actually cause forests to grow faster, as the nitrogen in acid rain is a fertilizer. The problem is, it makes the trees weaker and more susceptible to storm damage.
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