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Wheeling Native Carly Greer’s music dreams coming true
WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) — She was born and raised right here in the Friendly City and now her dreams of becoming one of the next great country singers and songwriters are becoming a reality. Carly Greer’s love for music started at a very young age when she began singing along to country music that her […]
Warwood Farmers Market uses mini grant to support local fresh produce
WARWOOD, W.Va. (WTRF) – Doubling purchase power for fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers markets is the West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition’s mission, and they are continuing to serve in Warwood. The West Virginia Farmer’s Market Association awarded the Warwood Farmers Market over $4,000 in grant funding to help improve their facilities, increase outreach, […]
Sons of Italy celebrates years of sausage making at Upper Ohio Valley festival
BELLAIRE, Ohio — The Sons of Italy is keeping its tradition alive of preparing signature sausages for the 41st Annual Undo's Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival. "We started in 1983, we've been there ever since,” said Bill Ault, organization president. “People come from all over to the festival. Bragging or not, they say we come to the festival to get your Italian sausage."
WEEREAD: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
“First, I got myself born.” So begins the saga of Damon Fields, AKA Demon Copperhead, the titular protagonist of Barbara Kingsolver’s 2022 award-winning novel. Coming of age in southern Appalachia during the late ‘90s and early aughts, Demon’s life is hardscrabble from the beginning. His life of struggle begins at birth, born in a trailer en caul (inside the amniotic sac) to an already-passed-out teenage mother, leaving Demon to do the heavy lifting of the birthing process. His father, recently deceased, provides Demon with no more than his name and Melungeon looks.
A Ukrainian Church In Wheeling Is Preserving Heritage Through The Making Of Pierogies
This story originally aired in the July 21, 2024 episode of Inside Appalachia. On a Tuesday morning in the kitchen of Our Lady of Perpetual Help — a Ukrainian Catholic Church in Wheeling, West Virginia — there’s a group making pierogies the way churchgoers have for more than 100 years.
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