This West Virginia Week, we’ll spend some time in the Eastern Panhandle learning about a new Battlefield Park, hearing from a Harpers Ferry author, and exploring the unknown future of the John Brown Wax Museum. We’ll also travel to Morgantown to visit a Silent Book Club, and then head south to Logan County to explore the hopes surrounding the opening of the Governor’s School for Tourism.
On this West Virginia Weekwe spend some time in the Eastern Panhandle and learn about a new Battlefield Park, hear from an author from Harpers Ferry, and explore the unknown future of the John Brown Wax Museum.
We’ll also travel to Morgantown to attend a Silent Book Club and then head south to Logan County to see the hopes of the opening of the Governor’s School for Tourism.
In other news this week, we get the latest on the state of the coal industry in West Virginia, look at a campaign to improve foster care, hear from the state Board of Education meeting and visit an archaeological site in Malden.
Liz McCormick is our host this week. Our theme music is by Matt Jackfert.
West Virginia Week is a web-only podcast highlighting the week’s biggest news stories in the Mountain State, produced with assistance from Bill Lynch, Briana Heaney, Chris Schulz, Curtis Tate, Emily Rice, Eric Douglas, Jack Walker, Liz McCormick and Maria Young.
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Author: Lisa McCormick
Liz is WVPB’s Webmaster/Digital Coordinator and Eastern Panhandle Bureau Chief based in Shepherdstown, WV on the campus of Shepherd University. A native of Charleston, West Virginia, Liz received an MA in Strategic Communications from American University in 2022 and a BA in Communications and New Media from Shepherd in 2014. Prior to her role as Webmaster, Liz was WVPB’s Eastern Panhandle reporter from 2014-2022, House of Delegates reporter at “The Legislature Today” from 2015-2017, and covered K-12/higher education from 2020-2022. Liz has also worked as a technical assistant and associate producer at “The Legislature Today.” View all posts by Liz McCormick
