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	<description>Nature&#039;s Mountain Playground : Pocahontas County, West Virginia</description>
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		<title>Christmas Bird Count coming up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local bird enthusiasts will take to the back roads and back woods during the 4th annual Pocahontas County Christmas Bird Count on Friday, December 16th 2011. This event gives birders a chance to get together and have a good time while gathering information on winter bird diversity and abundance in the area. Participants will meet [...]]]></description>
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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>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>Let&#8217;s Go Fishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was surprised to see the DNR stocking truck dipping nets full of fish into Knapps Creek. Then I remembered, IT’S SPRING. Yea, Spring, with its brightly colored flowers, peeping frogs, warmer temperatures, and the Rubber Footed Flannel Crested River Wader, better known as the legendary Angler. As the snow melts, the streams [...]]]></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>In finding our ancestors, we find ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genealogy is an addictive hobby: the fact that you are reading this probably means that you have been smitten. There are a number of theories as to why genealogy has become so popular in the last few years; the huge growth of the Internet, the availability of information on CD-ROM or because North American society, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Classroom Takes Shape</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon we’re going to be developing a Living Classroom…right here in Pocahontas County. And what better place could there be to do that than in Nature’s Mountain Playground? What better place to learn about the great outdoors than the great outdoors? The Living Classroom concept provides a variety of educational programs that support visitors such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small local group makes big impression on tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marlinton is an old town tucked away deep in the Allegheny Mountains but don’t let that make you think nothing goes on there.  A new group, developed by a small group of business people sprang up literally over a jam session at a local coffee house. Through a local survey over six months, the group, [...]]]></description>
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