Sara Wood-Shaw was elected to Moundsville’s city council in 2018, and is up for reelection in November. She had worked in community development in Africa,
Why Small Towns Like Moundsville Love WW2 History
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
Stories Americans Made Up Running Into Oil, Mounds, Uranium and Rivers
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
The Gospel of Clifftop: In West Virginia and Appalachia, Music is for Everybody
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 Fight to Save the Town’: Why People Staying Behind Need Better Pay
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,
Philosophy with Strangers: ‘What is Happiness?’ in Charleroi, PA (Pop. 3,923)
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