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Location/County: Gilbert, Mingo
March 22, 2014 — May 03, 2014
“Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” at Larry Joe Harless Community Center, March 22 though May 5.
The Hometown Teams show is Museum on Main Street exhibition, produced by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, produced in cooperation with the West Virginia Humanities Council. The Smithsonian exhibit is designed to show how important sports teams are to cities in America, and how — even if one is not a sports fan — it is impossible to ignore the influence on sports in our lives.