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Jesco White was born in Bandytown, a tiny community located in the Appalachian Mountains of Boone County, West Virginia, to an unknown family who abandoned him and he was adopted by Donald Ray White (1927–1985), also known as D. Ray White, and Bertie Mae White. White's adoptive father was profiled in the Smithsonian Folkways documentary ...
April 2009 (2009-04) (Tribeca Film Festival) May 5, 2010 (2010-05-05) (United States) Running time. 88 minutes. Language. English. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a 2009 documentary film directed by Julien Nitzberg chronicling the White family of Boone County, West Virginia .
Randolph County is the largest by area at 1,040 square miles (2,694 km 2 ), and Hancock County is the smallest at 83 square miles (215 km 2 ). [8] Kanawha County contributed land to the founding of 12 West Virginia counties [12] and has the largest population (174,805 in 2023). Wirt County has the smallest population (5,000 in 2023). [13]
Gramma and Ginga were two sisters, Genevieve "Gramma" Musci (March 21, 1914 – December 25, 2020) and Arlene "Ginga" Bashnett (February 4, 1919 – September 28, 2022), who became Internet celebrities in the 2010s when videos taken of the duo by their family members went viral on YouTube and Facebook. The sisters' everyday interactions ...
Louise McNeill. Louise McNeill (January 9, 1911 – June 16, 1993), also known as Louise McNeill Pease, [1] was an American poet, essayist, and historian of Appalachia. She began teaching in a one roomed schoolhouse in West Virginia and would eventually move on to teach at other universities. She would eventually become a professor of history ...
54-70156 [4] GNIS feature ID. 2390647 [2] Website. cityofroncevertewv .gov. Ronceverte is a city in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, on the Greenbrier River. The population was 1,572 at the 2020 census.
1555932 [5] Website. Official website. Weirton ( ⫽ ˈwɪərtən ⫽ WEER-tən) is a city in Hancock and Brooke counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located along the Ohio River in the state's Northern Panhandle, the city's population was 19,163 as of the 2020 census, making it the seventh most populous city in the state.
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. (April 16, 1923 – January 7, 2015) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from West Virginia. He began his political career as a state legislator in 1952. He was elected the 28th and 30th governor of West Virginia, serving from 1969 until 1977 and again from 1985 until 1989, he is the longest-serving West ...