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Mountain Ash (Sorbus americana) berries are bright red and abundant in higher elevations found at state parks such as Blackwater Falls, but perhaps the best way to see them is to ride the train at Cass Scenic Railroad in October. “At Cass, in addition to the ash berries, fall foliage is ablaze in an unbelievable color…
INTO Marshall will celebrate its grand opening at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at the INTO Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. INTO officials will host tours of the facility as well as a reception following a ribbon cutting. INTO Marshall is located at East Hall, former home of the Marshall Community and Technical College.…
Jake Harriman, founder and CEO of Nuru International, will visit West Virginia University as part of this year’s David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas on Oct. 17. His talk, “The End: Nuru’s Vision for a World Without Poverty,” begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms. It is free and open to the public.…
The story of a little girl coming to terms with her daddy’s dangerous job has won Gold in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. Shovelful of Sunshine, by Stacie Vaughn Hutton, illustrated by Cheryl Harness, and published by Headline Kids, an imprint of Headline Books in Terra Alta, W.Va., won Gold in Moonbeam’s category for books…
West Virginia University Press has published Listening to the Land: Stories from the Cacapon and Lost River Valley and invites the public to join The Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Trust and Listening to the Land contributors at upcoming book launch celebrations. The Cacapon and Lost River Valley is located in the Appalachian Mountains of…
The 3rd District Accelerator program is teaming up with Hatfield-McCoy Trail systems to provide an investment workshop on the business climate of the Hatfield-McCoy Region. The workshop will include a broad overview of the Hatfield-McCoy Trail user behaviors and habits to help entrepreneurs and investors identify business opportunities in the HFMC counties. The workshop will…