Like many smart, striving kids in 1980s and 1990s Appalachia, Neema Avashia left Cross Lanes, WV – pop. 9,274 – in the western part of
Wild Human: Q&A With ‘Moundsville’ Co-Director David Bernabo
Moundsville (PBS) was born at a dinner party in Pittsburgh in 2017. I was yearning to do something deeper than daily journalism about America, American
‘Tragedy Full of Joy’: The Complicated American Dream of West Virginia’s Jerry West
Jerry West, one of the greatest basketball players of all time and almost certainly the greatest athlete from the state of West Virginia, was born
Moundsville Blog Over 100k Views For 1st Time in 2021; Top Posts: Phoebe Bridgers, Lady Gaga, Krishnas, Under Armour, Michael Iafrate, History of West Virginia
I started this blog at the end of 2018 to promote Moundsville, the PBS film that Dave Bernabo and I had researched and shot in
As 60 Million Americans Avoid Drinking from Tap, ‘Desperate’ Highlights Fight for Clean Water in USA
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 Moundsville Blog: Stories Around an American Town 