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• Museums

  … , although there are good scout exhibits in other museums. There are 12 science museums and nature centers. The Museum of Radio and Technology in Huntington shows the development of electronic technology in the 20th century. The Core Arboretum at " …

• Ruth Ann Musick

  … served as editor until 1967. Musick became West Virginia’s folklore ambassador, promoting folklore through education, public speaking, radio, and television. She published four major folktale collections: _Ballads, Folk Songs, and Folk Tales From West …

• National Hillbilly News

  … printed posters and handbills for the personal appearances of local WSAZ radio musicians. They founded the _National Hillbilly News_ as an outgrowth … provide useful sources on the social significance of country music radio in the pre-television era.

• National Historic Landmarks

  … National Historic Landmark in West Virginia is the "Reber Radio Telescope":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2369 at the "National Radio Astronomy Observatory":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1583 …

• National Youth Science Camp

  … National Forest":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2014. The camp’s location allows for trips to the "National Radio Astronomy Observatory":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1583 in Green Bank, and to Spruce Knob, Seneca Rocks, …

• Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper

  … on either guitar or banjo. They worked for a time at radio station "WMMN":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1327 … at various locales outside the state. However, the highpoint of their radio careers was a decade (1947–57) at "WWVA& …

• William Jennings "Billy" Cox

  … guitar and harmonica in his youth and started performing on WOBU (later "WCHS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/937) radio in 1928. He recorded for Gennett, 1929–31, and from 1933 to 1940 for American Record Corporation, which later became …

• Cozy Records

  … country string bands to rock ’n’ roll to polkas. Musicians, including radio personalities such as Dusty Shaver and Hank the Cowhand, came … , Janet and Juanita, he embarked on a musical ministry on radio and TV and at his Gorman Church of God in Gormania …

• Croatian Cultural Club

  The Croatian Cultural Club was founded in Benwood, "Marshall County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1521, in 1955 by Mike Perkovic, an immigrant Croatian coal miner who worked for decades to preserve and present Croatian culture around …

• Oak Hill

  … ;tourism":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/750 boom and attracted new residents. A communications center, with a newspaper and radio and television stations, Oak Hill is the biggest city in Fayette County with a 2020 population of 8,179, the …

• Mercer County

  … . Bluefield was home to the feared "Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/333, pioneer radio station WHIS, and Nobel Prize winner "John Forbes Nash":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1556. "W. …

• Brad Paisley

  … of older musicians including Goddard. At age 14 Paisley became the youngest-ever regular cast member of the _Jamboree USA_ radio show on Wheeling station "WWVA":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1377. Remaining with that show for the next …

• Pocahontas County

  … near Green Bank was selected for the new "National Radio Astronomy Observatory":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1583, … newest telescope at Green Bank is the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world. The observatory was a major …

• James F. Dent

  … daily events into delightful anecdotes gained him national fame. _Reader’s Digest_ reprinted 194 items from his columns, and radio commentator Paul Harvey often used his work. Dent was educated at Charleston’s Stonewall Jackson High School and at " …

• Cal Price

  … Price was selected by the president of the National Editorial Association to appear on ‘‘We The People,’’ a New York radio show. He received an honorary law degree from "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127 in …

• Dolores I. Dowling

  … to civilian life as an office manager for the Greater Huntington Radio Corporation and WHTN-TV and radio, later working for the Greater Huntington Theatre Corporation. In 1963, she became secretary and administrative …

• Dyke Raese

  … record of 55-29, before serving in World War II. After the war, he entered Greer Industries, which included radio stations, the Morgantown _Dominion Post_ newspaper, and limestone and steel plants. The father of businessman and gubernatorial candidate John …

• Gauley Mountain

  … recurring in individual poems covering nearly two centuries. The land, too, endures. In 1991, McNeill participated in a radio version of _Gauley Mountain_ for West Virginia Day, later made into a compact disk recording by Pocahontas Communications …

• Etam Earth Station

  … of the 13,000-square-mile National Radio Quiet Zone. The zone spans a … to reduce interference to the "National Radio Astronomy Observatory":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … at Green Bank in Pocahontas County. The radio quiet zone includes Sugar Grove in …

• Television

  … West Virginia, was an affiliate of WSAZ radio station. WSAZ-TV went on the air … ) basketball game on December 3, 1949. Radio stations in Charleston, Parkersburg, and Wheeling soon followed the lead of WSAZ radio in bringing television to their markets. …

• John Raese

  … Coal and Coke. He is chairman of the board of West Virginia Radio Corporation and founder of MetroNews Radio Network. Raese is also vice-president of the Morgantown Dominion-Post. He and his wife, Liz …

• Robert Drasnin

  … county-wide, all-star band on sax and clarinet. The group landed a job providing the music for Hoagy Carmichael’s NBC radio show. After the early 1950s, Drasnin worked primarily as a studio musician and arranger. Drasnin, who earned a master’s degree …

• Frankie Yankovic

  … how to play the accordion from the lodgers at his house, and by age 16, he was appearing regularly on a local Slovenian radio show. Yankovic enlisted in the Army in 1943. Before shipping out, he recorded 32 songs, many of which became hits while he was …

• Death of Hank Williams

  … ,” “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” and “Cold, Cold Heart.” He was one of the main attractions on the Grand Ole Opry radio show from WSM-Nashville, Tennessee, a chart-topping recording artist for MGM Records, and a riveting live performer with his legendary …

• Sugar Grove Naval Station

  … of building a 600-foot radio telescope for astronomical studies. A … on the foundation of the larger radio telescope in 1958, but the … . The base lies within the radio quiet zone encircling the " … the closing of the naval radio station in 1992, and the …