The Moundsville blog promotes the movie ‘Moundsville’, now on PBS, and collects writing about Moundsville and West Virginia. Neil Diamond turns 80 on January 24,
10 Reasons Appalachians Love ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ (Even if Critics Hate It)
Hillbilly Elegy, on Netflix, has joined The Shack, See No Evil Hear No Evil, and Saw V as films audiences love and critics hate. On
West Virginia Officially Loses All 4 of its Minor League Baseball Teams
‘Moundsville’ is a PBS movie about the history of a small town on the Ohio River, and this blog collects articles and essays about the
Why This Educated Millennial is Staying in West Virginia
The brain drain from America’s hinterlands to the cities has shaped American economics and politics this century as much as the tech revolution, the opioid
When the Hillbilly Shot the Filmmaker: The Genius of ‘Stranger with a Camera’
We’ve been fighting over hillbilly elegies for a long time. Amid the buzz and furor over the Ron Howard movie, I watched Stranger with a
‘America Lost’ Finds Humanity and Redemption in Youngstown, Memphis, Stockton
Church or state: How do we rebuild America’s left-behind communities? NOTE: America Lost is currently available for free here. The 2016 and 2020 elections had
