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HOW NOT TO SLEEP WITH ALLEN GINSBERG

In the alternative, how to come to write a song about interviewing and then getting stoned with him back in the day, deep within the West Virginia hills…

Jun 11 •

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IN HIS OWN WORDS

WATCH NOW | Homer Hickam's Keynote Address at the West Virginia Writer's Inc., conference, on June 7, 2025 at Cedar Lakes in Ripley, West Virginia

Jun 8 •

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WORKING the WARDS | Part 3

'Half of them don't belong here,' the Huntington State Hospital aide says of the patients. | June 4, 2025

Jun 4 •

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WORKING the WARDS | Part 2

An endless cigarette and decades of life on psychiatric backwards | June 3, 2025

Jun 3 •

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WORKING THE WARDS | Part 1

A personal glimpse from the back wards of a West Virginia mental hospital in 1983 | PART 1 of 3 | June 2, 2025

Jun 2 •

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May 2025

SONGS IN THE KEY of RON

Ron Sowell, one of West Virginia's most prominent singer-songwriters, delivers the goods on life and such with a new album. We had questions—but first…

May 9 •

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April 2025

A SERMON FOR THESE TIMES

‘The Politics of Truth and the Sin of Silence’ | april19.2025

Apr 19 •

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'TO THE GULAG, WE GO!'

Riley Moore and Carol Miller's Excellent Adventure to the Worst Prison in the World | april19.2025

Apr 19 •

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The day Rampa Claus came to my house bearing gifts from deep in the West Virginia hills | april15.2025

Apr 15 •

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CEREMONIAL NOTES

A snapshot of one of the planet's most eclectic events in little old West Virginia | april13.2025

Apr 13 •

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VIDEO: SCENES FROM a W.VA. PROTEST

Not EVERYONE in West Virginia loves Donald Trump: Scenes from today's 'HANDS OFF!' protest in downtown Huntington WV | april5.2025

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JESUS AT THE BAR

A Few Moments with Jesus Christ at a West Virginia beer joint | april4.2025

Apr 4 •

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