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September 2012

Jayne Avery

Jayn Avery, Potter

My name is Jayn Avery. I’m a potter, and a resident of Floyd 26 years.

Ward Nichols, Painter

Ward Nichols, already into the conversation before we started recording: …the coalfields of southern West Virginia. My wife was a North Carolina girl and I moved down here after being here often with her family, liked it, stayed, she died, and a good
Nickel Creek

Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins

I know the beginnings of Nickel Creek go way far back – you heard bluegrass at a young age, but not anywhere close to the Appalachian mountains. I wondered if you could tell me about that first experience with bluegrass.
Fiddlehead fern

Photographing West Virginia Wilderness

Photographer Laura Moul spent a month at West Virginia's Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge. A journal of her stay will appear in the next few Word & Image blogs.
Robert Dafford's mural in Point Pleasant, W.Va.

Big Art in Point Pleasant

I went to Point Pleasant, W.Va. to check out Mothman, an A-list monster that appeared there in the 1960s – and in a Richard Gere movie 40 years later.
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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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