Baseball has long been a staple of small-town America, and, as Homestand, a rich, illuminating new Substack newsletter and upcoming book, document, the digitization and

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Baseball has long been a staple of small-town America, and, as Homestand, a rich, illuminating new Substack newsletter and upcoming book, document, the digitization and
There was a time when Portsmouth, OH, a town of 20,000, south of Columbus, was the preeminent city on the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and
A new book by Gary Rider and Roseanna Keller chronicles the story of the Marx Toy Plant (described by Marx Toy Museum curator Francis Turner
A Dunkin’ is opening in Moundsville, WV, in May, offering its corporate branded array of donuts and coffees (The company, which has been slowing disassociating
Like West Virginia, the state where he was born, Jerry West is more complicated – deeper, smarter, more vulnerable – than he looks at first
The U.S. had a $1.1 trillion trade deficit in 2021. With China alone its deficit was $355 billion. West Virginia, however, had a $1.1 billion