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Women of the Mountain State

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Which U.S. first lady is most closely associated with the Preston County town of Arthurdale?
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Where was the first West Virginia Girls' Basketball Tournament played?
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This McDowell County native was the first Black woman ever elected to the West Virginia state legislature.
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Anne Dudley came to West Virginia after the Civil War to teach Black students in what county?
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She was the first woman elected to the executive branch of West Virginia's government.
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This Charleston/Wheeling author's published stories include "The Dinner Set," "The Strange Looking Man," and "They Both Needed It."
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This Huntington native taught art at Marshall University for 30 years and perhaps was the most influential of West Virginia's abstract expressionist painters.
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What is Eldora Bolyard Nuzum best remembered as.
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This Clarksburg native has written extensively on the art of writing, children's books, and adult fiction, such as A Space Apart, which is largely based in West Virginia.
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Which one of these women did NOT serve in the U.S. military during World War II?
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