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Dorothy Vaughan The math computations of Dorothy Vaughan and others, including West Virginia native Katherine Johnson, were crucial to the early U.S. space program. Read More »
Big Week for Hunters In what may be the largest sporting event in West Virginia, more than 200,000 deer hunters will take to the woods for buck season: November 20 - December 3. Read More »
Dorothy Thompson Read our new entry on this Canaan Valley weaver and educator who was a 2000 National Heritage Fellow. Read More »
Elaine Purkey Read our new entry about the labor singer-songwriter, educator, and radio host from Lincoln County. Read More »
Fall in West Virginia The annual pageantry of autumn is in full color in the Mountain State. Read More »
Henry Gassaway Davis at 200 Looking back at the legacy of West Virginia's "Grand Old Man," one of the state's most powerful and controversial industrialists and politicians, born in 1823. Read More »
Grafton Monster This mysterious creature was supposedly spotted for the first (and perhaps only) time in 1964. Read More »
Ethel Caffie-Austin Check out our new e-WV entry about "West Virginia's First Lady of Gospel Music." Read More »
The Marshall Plane Crash On November 14, 1970, a plane crash killed nearly all members of the Marshall University football team, most of the coaches, and a number of fans. Read More »
Living and working in the coalfields Photographers captured images of the everyday lives of West Virginia coal miners during the Great Depression. Read More »
Astronomy The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope. Read More »
Farmington Twenty-one miners escaped alive, but another 78 perished in the explosion at Consolidation Coal’s No. 9 mine near Farmington on November 20, 1968. Photo by Bob Campione. Read More »
This Date in HistoryNovember 30, 1964: Don Redman died in New York City 
Known throughout the world as one of the 20th century’s major jazz composers, Donald Mathew Redman (July 29, 1900-November 30, 1964) was a pivotal figure in the evolution of that American art form. Known as “the little giant of jazz,” Redman was a multi-instrumentalist whose innovative arrangements laid the foundation for the big band era. Born in Piedmont, Redman was a child prodigy who learned to play most orchestral instruments. He graduated from |
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