Art form. With the West Virginia Folklore Program we document, preserve present and support traditional artists, Cultural Heritage practitioners and cultural communities across the state. Basically, i travel all over the state and do oral history and documentation of banjo players fiddlers, neon sign makers. Independent wrestlers, ramadan Fast Breaking dinners, serbian chicken roast. Any kind of aspect of Cultural Heritage or someone who practices a form art form or a food way or some kind of practice folklore in the state. Thinking how we choose stories for the West Virginia Folklore Program. Theres so much to document. So many time to talk to. When i hear about a singer in her 90s that will be priority. Also stories that complicate the narrative about West Virginia either internally or outside. Stories that show Real Community cohesion. Ive done lot of work in the swiss community. I worked pretty intensely with them over a year documenting their food ways tradition and their Communit
We do know this is an unprecedented amount of money. Congress has never passed a rescue package like this before before, 1. 5 trillion on top of about 200 billion that was in the legislation that passed only a couple of weeks ago on top of the 8. 3 billion that was in the first one. This this is phase three. And then, finally, number three, this legislation does provide the help to the Health Care System, quickly, the Public Health care system to be able to provide the protective gear thats needed for Health Care Workers, the additional ventilators needed in our hospitals. The antiviral medication that can help when someone tests positive to know theres going to be a way to minimize to reduce the effects of this virus, the infection. And really significantly to not only lab corps said they can do 300,000 tests a week. We need to use the cotton swab to get them the swabs. There needs to be a process to get them. Now were starting to come online, this funding legislation will help them t
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
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