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		<title>Rosie the Riveter and Tweard Blackhurst&#8217;s work come to Opera House</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pocahontas Opera House again takes center stage during the Smithsonian Exhibit’s “The Way We Worked” this week. On Thursday, October 6th at 7:00 p.m., students from Pocahontas County High School will perform a theater reading of W. E. Blackhurst’s book “Of Men and a Mighty Mountain.” The book, written in 1965 is a set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smithsonian exhibit &#8220;The Way We Worked&#8221; comes to Marlinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine working in a coal mine. Or in a steel mill. Or on a log run down the Greenbrier River. Work and workplaces have gone through enormous transformations between the mid 19th and late 20th centuries. You can view these changes through dozens of photographs held by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Smithsonian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Levels Fair celebrates Hefner Family Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Little Levels Heritage Fair is acclaimed as one of the outstanding events in the Potomac Highlands region and this the fourteenth year of heritage celebration looks to be no different. This year’s theme is Traditions in Music and celebrates the Hefner Family of Little Levels. Richard Hefner and Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys will perform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commemorate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 14:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. The harrowing battle raged for four years, pitting brother against brother at the cost of more than 600,000 lives. Out of the war, however, there was born a new state, the only one created as a direct result of the war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Byways and backways</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia has a great scenic byways program and utilizes the program more than any other state. Pocahontas County also uses the program. We have more scenic byways than any other county in West Virginia: the Highland Scenic Highway (Rt. 150) – one of the first highways in the National Scenic Byways program; the Staunton-Parkersburg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pocahontas Historical Society Celebrates 50 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Pocahontas County Historical Museum in Marlinton! In 2011 the Society celebrates 50 years of preserving the history of our unique area. Recently we have had 14 people representing different regions of our large county join our board of directors. The energy and enthusiasm among this group is high and they are already making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember those who suffered on November 4th</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s November 4, 2010 &#8211; a day we always will honor those affected by The Great West Virginia Flood of 1985. Many locals around here indicate their place didn’t flood until the next day. In either case, it is a sad day in our state’s history and is now referred to as The Great Flood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Me the Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Historic Preservation effort in this county has really taken off during the last few months. Why does it matter people ask? The answer actually is quite simple&#8230;preserving our past helps illuminate our present and gives us direction into our future. Mountain people are very private people, it&#8217;s part of our Scots-Irish background. We don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huntersville residents proud of their past</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huntersville is showing off and everyone’s invited!  Jeannie Dunham, one of the co-chairpersons, along with Terry and Connie Carr of the Huntersville Tradition Days says “People will get to experience some of the lost arts and workmanship of our fore fathers.”  Huntersville Tradition Day will be Saturday October 2, 2010. It was no uncommon thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the man on the flag?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New neon colored street flags greet motorists along Rt 39 from the bridge east just pass the Greenbrier River Trail  representing fun family activities in the area such as canoeing, bicycling, and winter fun in the region.  The colors and the scenes depict seasons as well….there is something to do around here all year.  Many [...]]]></description>
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