Joe Burrow played football at Athens High, in southeastern Ohio in the foothills of Appalachia, 21 miles from the Ohio River. As a senior, he
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The First Forward Pass in Pro Football History Was Against Moundsville — Or Was It?
The first forward pass in the history of professional football was recorded in 1906 by a Massillon, OH, Tigers quarterback named George “Peggy” Parratt against
‘Dopesick’ Nails the Pain in All of Us
At the end of Dopesick, the spellbinding eight-part series about the opioid epidemic on Hulu, Michael Keaton’s character, a doctor struggling with addiction, gives a
West Virginia’s Glasscock Was ‘King of Shortstops’ but Broke with Ballplayer Brotherhood over 1890 Players League
One of the brightest stars of 19th century baseball was a shortstop from Wheeling, just up the river from Moundsville, WV (subject of our PBS
Was It OK To Put a Christmas Tree on Top of a Prehistoric Native American Burial Mound?
Every December, until around 40 years ago, town leaders in Moundsville, WV erected a giant Christmas tree on top of the Grave Creek Mound. You
Hindu Hillbilly: A Memoir of Loving West Virginia While Indian and Queer
Like many smart, striving kids in 1980s and 1990s Appalachia, Neema Avashia left Cross Lanes, WV – pop. 9,274 – in the western part of