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From the Editor s Desk: A colorful addition to the downtown
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After numerous months of work, the scaffolding is coming down and the latest mural celebrating Keyser is finally finished.
Located on the side of the Solar Mountain Records building on Armstrong Street, this latest effort of the Highland Arts Public Arts Committee features a train rolling into the foreground, chugging past what I assume is the old railroad machine shop. Watching the train go by is a young boy and his dog.
The mural serves as a welcome to those coming into Keyser by way of Memorial Bridge, just as the first murals to be created by the HAU program and affixed to the Brooks Park amphitheater welcome those coming into Keyser from the south.
The Week in W.Va. History
West Virginia Encyclopedia
CHARLESTON – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
April 4, 1980: Musician Red Sovine died in Nashville. Sovine, born Woodrow Wilson Sovine in Charleston, gained country music fame for his recitations, especially those incorporating sentimental truck driver themes.
April 5, 1856: Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Virginia. In 1865, he moved with his family to Malden to join his stepfather, who had escaped from slavery during the war.
April 5, 2010: An explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County killed 29 workers. Only two men escaped from the mine alive. It was the country’s worst coal mining disaster since November 20, 1968, when the Consol No. 9 Mine at Farmington, West Virginia, exploded, killing 78 workers.