Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Mourning tea top militarygeral kwas em soleimanid at the baghdad airport. He ordered the hundreds of many americans. Reporter Ayatollah Khamenei has promised revenge and named a deputy to replace him. The consequences could be unbelieve sabl. The big concern is the u. S. Prepared for irans response. Reporter President Trump tweeted soleimani was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people. Adding, he should have been taken out many years ago. Republican senator Lindsey Graham said he was briefed in advance. Theyre going to come after us with a vengeance if we do noy troops have been sent in. Wo days of violent protests in iraq by proiranian demonstrators and after iranian militiaere s, in imminent attack taking place and people should know this is an intelligencebased assessment that drove this. Reporter the situation in iraq is said to be traj ill and very precarious and dangerous and urging calm. In a state nancy pelosi said this air strike risks provoking
Representing Jefferson County will be on television. [ applause ] my job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad student work to go to work as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat in the mid1980s. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors. Tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with Caroline Fraser. Caroline fraser is the editor of the library of america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books and t
Around the country on npr. Spring in the mountain, and it blows down to the town. With support provided by bailey and glasser and the West Virginia tourism office, welcome to the Mountain Stage with larry gross. Nonstage is a two hour radio show composed of live performances, musical performances, from all kinds of music. All across the usa and all around the world. The music varies from african bands to oldtime appellation fiddlers and everything in between. Appalachian fiddlers and everything in between. We startedd december, Mountain Stage regular broadcast once a month. Was 26 showsink it later, we were national. Now onto hundred 40 stations in america. From the beginning, our idea was to show as many different styles of music as we could reasonably. That is what we still do. There have been so many folks, many of them before anybody else heard of them. People like lyle lovett and mary shape and carpenter in the early 1980s. Alison krauss when she was 19 years old. We had sheryl cr
Will speak with local authors about the citys history, starting with its link to booker t. Washington. And in about 20 minutes, the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and then in 50 minutes, theWest Virginia teachers strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington was for 20 years the spokesman and leader of African Americans in america and at the time we had horrible jim crow race notes in the south, that didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of Race Relations and what he observed with his heroes was the building of a black middle class and that became his path, his career path as he went from dusky to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hales ford south of roanoke virginia, 220 miles from here and in those first nine years he was a slave boy. He didnt have pants. He wore a slave boys shirt, shoes were two wooden slats with a piece of leather across each toe across thetop. He wanted very much to go