From old floorboards, tree roots and driftwood, West Virginia University professor Nina Assimakopoulos handcrafts flutes in the Native American tradition, then “woos the voice of the wood†into being through improvisational performance.
Memories of the past and ones made in the present run along parallel tracks throughout the year at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in the Pocahontas County town of Cass, as well as from the Randolph County seat of Elkins, and they include an especial, visceral vibrancy — and passenger attrac…
Psychology
West Virginia youths affected by substance abuse within their families can gain support and life skills while having outdoor (and indoor) fun in abundance — all for free — by attending Camp Mariposa Southern West Virginia.
Radio
Collaborating with FestivALL’s FestiFALL and the Risers Agency, radio station WTSQ 88.1 FM will moderate, participate and celebrate the first-time Risers Fest ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä music and arts festival throughout various city venues Oct. 11 through Oct. 13.
Sport
High school sports teams have started practices or will start soon in what has been an extremely hot summer in much of the country. Now is the time for athletes to slowly and safely build up their strength and stamina.
Designed to increase inclusion and accessibility (and greater public awareness of them), Exceptional Possibilities WV will host its first-time Exceptional Possibilities Fashion Show this month.
Every August through October, monarch butterflies in North America take collective flight to warmer Southern climes, the only butterfly known to make a two-way migration the way birds do, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
“West Virginia†is never what people are looking for when they ask where my family is from.
A Cincinnati engineer and a nurse walk into a Clendenin brewery — and two years later, they wind up owning the place!
Accompanied by mechanical assistance (and “assistantsâ€), CAMC physicians and other staff members demonstrated some of the latest robotic technology during a recent special summit at the CAMC Memorial location in ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä.
In the 1990s when I started medical school, nobody warned me how my job was going to hurt me emotionally. Maybe it’s better they didn’t, as I might have been scared away.
If you’re up for flying a kite this summer, why not go way, way up to the highest elevation in the state to accentuate the altitude?
Editor’s note: Janna Hamrick, a fifth-grade math teacher at Rock Branch Elementary School in Nitro, received a 2023-24 West Virginia Milken Educator Award on Nov. 1, 2023.
The impacts of climate change are steadily and exponentially being felt here in Appalachia just as they have across the globe, and environmental activists, scientists and outdoor enthusiasts alike find themselves in a race to counter the climate curve in the region.
To address a shortage of child care providers in the Mountain State, West Virginia University Extension agents are helping train staff to work at child care centers, offering children a safe place to learn and grow.
Are you of a mind (and medieval mindset) for a couple of knights (at least) to remember this spring and summer?
During National School Counseling Week earlier this year, the National Board for Certified Counselors interviewed former Jackson County Schools counselor Susan Miller Jones for the February edition of its Visions newsletter.
Prolific composer Daniel E. Gawthrop will offer insights from a career that has spanned more than 50 years at a program hosted by the Kanawha Chapter of the American Guild of Organists this week.
On Wednesday, April 17, the inaugural meeting of the Herbal Club took place at the Valley Park Conference Center in Hurricane.
For more than a century, coal mining has provided the basis of industry for small-town West Virginia. But an unseen downside of this extraction appears below the surface, in the soil that surrounds coal mines.
