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Steve Sabins has West Virginia baseball in the NCAA super regionals for the second time ever. Here's a closer look at the ...
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Hillbillies don’t need an elegy; not all of us are gone. I’ll tell you what could use a good elegy: the once beautiful mountains of West Virginia. So very many of them are gone, dead, murdered for the ...
Jack Legath, known as “Jack Eatzz,” of Cleveland, broke the record Sunday, May, 25, 2025, after completing the "Homewrecker" ...
Down to its very core, the shop is part of a love story. Hillbilly Hot Dogs in Cabell County in West Virginia is known nationwide for its wild spirit pride and even wilder menu. But some may not ...
And they regret it. “That’s what you get when you get two West Virginia hillbillies, you know,” Woodward joked. “They can’t help themselves.” Saban grew up in Fairmont, West Virginia ...
Some of you may recall a weekly newspaper, The West Virginia Hillbilly, that existed from about 1956 to 1984. This creative newspaper, produced by Jim Comstock, shared what he deemed important and ...
And Marlinton tries to have its snake and eat it, too: by leaning in to West Virginia’s stereotypes while trying to show there’s something more to the state than hillbilly caricature.
“They called us hillbillies, but we proved them wrong. And now West Virginia, in many ways, is the envy of the world. I would tell you keep it going. Absolutely keep it going. I’m so proud of ...
My great-grandmother, Idelene Hinkle, had been a columnist for The West Virginia Hillbilly, a satirical homage to West Virginia’s “absurd, fatalistic” humor. She had always spoken proudly of ...
Vance's memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy," piqued my interest ... I grew up in a small town near the borders of West Virginia and Kentucky. The memoir was supposed to be about life in Appalachia and ...