Hillbillies don’t need an elegy; not all of us are gone. I’ll tell you what could use a good elegy: the once beautiful mountains of West Virginia. So very many of them are gone, dead, murdered for the ...

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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.