Author: moundsville11

The pictures of soldiers sent to war hang like somber Christmas ornaments along tens of thousands of American main streets. They are the millions of

It was in the 19th century that European immigrants paved modern America. Rolling west, they founded towns (like the one we portray in our PBS

Seven years ago, some friends in Pittsburgh invited me and my hack-banjo skills to a summer music festival in the hills of West Virginia, at

The American political crisis is, at the root, a crisis of inequality, and despair in poor places. If working-class communities had better jobs and education,

In Philosophy With Strangers, a new series from the Moundsville blog, Pittsburgh writer Mike Vargo and I drive to small Rust Belt towns to ask

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