Mountain stage with our host, larry groce. Mountain stage is a two hour radio show composed of Live Performances, musical offormances, from all kinds music all across the usa and all around the world. The music varies from african appellation time and appalachian and everything in between. [cheers] in 1983, in december, we started Mountain Stage regular broadcasting. It was once a month. I think 26 shows later, we were national. From the beginning, our idea was to show as many different sound of music as we could, reasonably , and that is what we still do. There have been so many folks many of them, of course, before anybody else ever heard of them. Way back in the early 1980s. Was 19krauss, when she years old. Sheryl crow when nobody knew who she was. Then they were people who were already very established when they were on the show. Like the old Ralph Stanley and joan baez and judy collins and the band and randy newman. We are going to finish this banditha with a from up in morgantown, West Virginia. Please welcome for the first time on the Mountain Stage hello june. Larry we have had, probably, between 250 and 300 different West Virginia musicians that have been featured on this show. We do not just put them on because theyre from West Virginia, but when they reach a certain amount of talent, we want to give them exposure. It makes estate up in a way. Many people think West Virginia, ok, fiddle, banjo, bluegrass, oldtime country, and that is not it. People like it. We like it too. But we also hype jazz and singer songwriters and indie rock. Larry we like a lot of stuff. So two people in West Virginia. That is what we are trying to show. That this is not abnormal in West Virginia. This is what West Virginia is. It is one of the most open and accepting places. We want to represent West Virginia. Nobody ever asked us to say Live Performance radio from the Mountain State of West Virginia. Larry i started doing that early because i wanted to. I wanted people to know where we were from. There are times in public radio where that was not popular. They wanted you to be nowhere. So that people could put it on their station, and it would seem like it was produced by their station. We said we would not do that. You will always know it is West Virginia, because that is who we are. Where going to tell you we are from. We also want to represent West Virginia, hopefully, by the personality that the show has. We want to try to reflect what we think is a West Virginia personality. By that, i mean we are straightforward, we are warm, friendly we are not cute, you know. We like the people we put on. We like the audience very much. And we want to give them something. West virginians are generous. West virginians are kind and warm and friendly. They are not in your face. They are not great top promoters. But they are definitely if you need help, you will get it here. We want to have that personality. We want people to listen to the show and think it is a nice, friendly, warm place. We want you to go out and listen to live music wherever you can, as soon as you can. From the Mountain State of West Virginia, the live music radio show. Our cities tour staff recently chap travel to charleston, West Virginia, to learn about its rich history. Fromtch more video charleston, go to cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan 3. Next on the presidency, Ronald ReagansWhite House Political Affairs director, frank donatelli, system five historian Craig Shirley six down with historian Craig Shirley to go behind the scenes 40th president s campaigns for the white house. This conversation, which picked up with the 1976 republican contest against incumbent gerald ford, took place as part of mr. Shirleys university of virginia course called reagan on leadership. Thanks for joining us. This is our second class. A five week course, graduate level one credit. Thank you very much. Always wanted to make grad school, so. [laughter] and you finally did