Moundsville, WV lost its water service over Thanksgiving weekend, exposing the town we made the PBS film about to one of America’s most nagging problems:
The Magic Anarchy of American Vaudeville: When Astaire, Houdini and the Marx Bros Came to Your Town
Before silver and shiny screens, in the decades around the turn of the 20th century, American showbiz came to you in person. To theater and
The Radical Act of Active Remembering: Q&A With Local Historian Gary Rider
Every town has a local historian like Gary Rider, earnestly clipping, saving, storing, scribbling. As local news systems shrink, the local historian remains a creator
The Nasty, Brutish Economics of the Small Town American Hospital
Healthcare in America is the naked emperor, the lie so big and all-encompassing that almost nobody sees or understands its perverse and destructive economics clearly
West Virginia’s Forgotten Fight: To Be or Not To Be the ‘Switzerland of America’
West Virginia’s $4.6 billion tourism industry is a treat for East Coast vacationers, from Blackwater Falls and New River Gorge to the mighty Greenbrier and,
Arriving Today: How Global Logistics are Building the Modern World and Explain Amazon and McMansions
The economy shapes the geography of America. In the 19th century, the industrial revolution spawned cities, factories, and row homes, a dense world of red
The Moundsville Blog: Stories Around an American Town 