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
Court, and Public Policy events from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1979. Cspan is brought to you by your local or cable satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our link by all teas cable partners, this weekend we travel to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour and a half, we will visit notable locations and speak with experts about the citys history, including a home dating back to the early settlement of charleston. Then in about an hour, we will tour West Virginias capital building. Later, we hear the true life story of the movie Hidden Figures. In an africanamerican woman played in putting a man on the moon. We begin our special feature with a visit to the state history museum. Welcome to the West Virginia state museum at the state Cultural Center in c
Melissa markets come back from session lows following disappointing jobs report. Employers adding 209,000 jobs last month, missing expectations and inching the unemrate up to 6. 2 . Lets bring in the panel. Liz macdonald mcdonald. And James Frischling and veronica daguerre. What do you think of this report . There is lot of work we still need to do. There are still a lot of people having parttime jobs. Melissa right. So many people are underemployed and those numbers really arent improving that much and i think thats a real issue. That is what the fed is looking at. If you talk to some americans theyre under employed and not in positions they want to be in. This is not the immaculate recovery that Vice President biden talked about 2010 in the summer. Were still not seeing gdp growth annualized above 2. 2 . We havent seen that in years, right, melissa . Melissa right. I dont think you should be happy about 209k. Melissa can you reconcile the 4 gdp growth with the jobs growth . It is oka
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