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Conversations with Curators: WVU’s First African American Grads

West Virginia & Regional History Center 1549 University Ave., Morgantown, WV, United States

The West Virginia & Regional History Center will host a discussion on preserving the history of West Virginia University’s first African-American graduates on October 3 at 4 p.m. in the WVRHC in the Downtown Campus Library on the 6th floor. WVRHC Curator and Assistant Director Lori Hostuttler will highlight the archival materials documenting graduates Jack…

People’s U: West Virginia’s State Archives

Ohio County Public Library 52 16th Street, Wheeling, WV, United States

West Virginia History through Archives–Preserving the Mountain State’s Stories CLASS 1: "Materials for the Historian, an Identity for Future Generations: West Virginia’s State Archives" West Virginia’s first State Historian and Archivist, Virgil A. Lewis, stated, "Public Documents are the materials for the historian. . . . posterity can not have the means of judging, as…

30th Anniversary Film Screening of Matewan

La Belle Theatre 311 D St., South Charleston, WV, United States

Share and Save the Date! This October 7th, acclaimed independent film director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi are teaming up with The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum to host a 30th Anniversary Film Screening of Matewan at the Labelle Theatre in Charleston. Filmed in the coalfields of Southern West Virginia and featuring local residents…

$10.00

30th Anniversary Film Screening of Matewan

La Belle Theatre 311 D St., South Charleston, WV, United States

Share and Save the Date! This October 7th, acclaimed independent film director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi are teaming up with The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum to host a 30th Anniversary Film Screening of Matewan at the Labelle Theatre in Charleston. Filmed in the coalfields of Southern West Virginia and featuring local residents…

$10

Archiving Wheeling Podcast “From Camp Lee to the Great War” #4 Released

Podcast #4 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app October 8, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…

Cardomania!: The Rise and Fall of the Carte de Visite in Civil War America.

Historic Waldomore 404 West Pike Street, Clarksburg, WV, United States

Presenter Ron Coddington. Free and open to the public. Stonewall Jackson Civil War Roundtable. For more information contact Bill Yoke (weyoke@gmail.com) or Rick Wolfe (ra_wolfe@msn.com). Sponsored by the Barbara B. Highland Fund for the Arts and Hampton Inns.

People’s U: Wheeling’s Treasure Maps

Ohio County Public Library 52 16th Street, Wheeling, WV, United States

West Virginia History through Archives–Preserving the Mountain State’s Stories CLASS 2: "Wheeling’s Treasure Maps: Using New Digital Tools to Find the Oldest Surviving Homes in North Wheeling" Professor Dan Bonenberger of Eastern Michigan’s Historic Preservation Program will discuss how he is leading an effort to identify houses from the 1830s to 1860s by analyzing old…

People’s U: Photographs, the Time Capsules to Our Past

Ohio County Public Library 52 16th Street, Wheeling, WV, United States

West Virginia History through Archives–Preserving the Mountain State’s Stories CLASS 3: "Time Capsules to Our Past: Identifying and Preserving our Photographic Images" With the click of a shutter, a camera has the unique ability to freeze a moment in time, capturing a split-second time capsule view into our history. The visual evidence photographs provide of…

Archiving Wheeling Podcast “From Camp Lee to the Great War” #5 Released

Podcast #5 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app October 20, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…

Archiving Wheeling Podcast “From Camp Lee to the Great War” #6 Released

Podcast #6 will be available through Archiving Wheeling's SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app October 21, 2017. World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule…