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Today in WV History
19 Feb

Homer Hickam Jr. was born in Coalwood

In 1998, retired NASA engineer and McDowell County native Homer Hickam published his boyhood memoir, Rocket Boys. The book recalls the waning days of coal mining in the town of Coalwood, the dawn of space exploration in the late 1950s, and the lof...

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