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In walked Travis Stimeling. Burly and ebullient, Stimeling grew up playing guitar in church as a child in Buckhannon, West Virginia, then went on to study trombone in college. That eventually led to a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a teaching gig at Millikin University in Illinois.
This week, punk music photographer Chelse Warren takes us into the pit. We hop a tiny train to discover the miniature wonders of a West Virginia model railroad. Then, we journey to eastern Kentucky, where they’re reclaiming their bootlegging heritage – along a new moonshine trail.
Compassionate, generous and intelligent are all words that Travis Stimeling’s loved ones use to describe them. Stimeling was a West Virginia University professor of Appalachian music and studies and a
West Virginia University administrators have spent a lot of the past few months talking about numbers.
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