Unearthing buried treasure with David Wasserman. ➼ A strange-looking visitor stopped by Jake Hutchinson’s Pickers Paradise shortly after the Fairmont guitar and antiques store opened in 2011. “He had that big beard split in two, one (half) was going to the left and one was going to the right,” Hutchinson says. He watched as the man perused the shop and…
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe came to Monongalia County to take jobs in industry. Workers from places such as Czechoslovakia, Greece, and western Ukraine lived in Sabraton and worked in the mines and in the American Sheet and Tin Plate factory. There is no neighborhood today where we can hear Polish spoken…
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George Clinton keeps his booty-shaking, classic sounds fresh by surrounding himself with young collaborators embracing new influences. ➼ Some acts are content to take the stage year after year, tour after tour, and just play the hits. Then there are those who continue to make new music, only to rehash the same sounds that made them famous—and come off sounding…
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WVU offers online music lessons to students statewide. Aya Hobeika was nervous at first. Her posture was tense as she gripped her violin and glided her bow across the strings. Her focus had gravitated toward one thing: the person on the other side of her computer screen. Hobeika is one of dozens of West Virginia students who have participated in…
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