Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Government. Next, a book tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits charleston, West Virginia, to learn more about its literary history. For years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Booker t. Washington for 20 years was the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america. At the time, we had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of race relation. What he observed with his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middleclass, and that became his path, his career path, as he went from tuskegee to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hill sport. It is about 225 miles from here. In those first nine years, he was a slave boy. He did not have pants. He wore a slave boy shirt. He wanted very much to go to school. He saw white children going to school but he wasnt unable to do those things. They leave the
Representing Jefferson County will be on television. [ applause ] my job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad student work to go to work as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat in the mid1980s. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors. Tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with Caroline Fraser. Caroline fraser is the editor of the library of america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books and t
Ever cspan cities tour takes American History tv on the road to feature the cities across america. Heres the reason program. Recent program. With this glitch to turn on the motor, and it comes on here to turn it on. Its a different process in Digital Printing that is widely used today. And this is why it stands out. Looking at the posters, you can see inconsistencies. It has this historic quality to it. You can touch it, feel that impression. You know youre touching something thats handmade. Base camp, were a letterpress shop. We print posters, greeting cards, basically anything on paper using oldfashioned coding presses. We try to keep it to the process when oldfashioned Printing Presses were marred technology. The way that we work when we are creating a poster or an invitation, we actually use movable type. We handset individual letters to create imagery. We hand carved out of linoleum blocks. Stamp andting a giant using that template, that type on the box and just printing it one at
Around the country on npr. Spring in the mountain, and it blows down to the town. With support provided by bailey and glasser and the West Virginia tourism office, welcome to the Mountain Stage with larry gross. Nonstage is a two hour radio show composed of live performances, musical performances, from all kinds of music. All across the usa and all around the world. The music varies from african bands to oldtime appellation fiddlers and everything in between. Appalachian fiddlers and everything in between. We startedd december, Mountain Stage regular broadcast once a month. Was 26 showsink it later, we were national. Now onto hundred 40 stations in america. From the beginning, our idea was to show as many different styles of music as we could reasonably. That is what we still do. There have been so many folks, many of them before anybody else heard of them. People like lyle lovett and mary shape and carpenter in the early 1980s. Alison krauss when she was 19 years old. We had sheryl cr