For the 50th season, the asphalt track in Ona near Huntington will host races starting tomorrow night. West Virginia First Lady Joanne Tomblin and Commissioner of Culture and History Randall Reid-Smith traveled to Raleigh County Thursday to congratulate the 2013 winners of the West Virginia State History Bowl. Friends of Wheeling remembered their dead in a celebration of their heritage recently with a tour of the Mount Wood Cemetery. Authorities have identified a woman killed earlier this week. The woman was hit by a train in Fayette County. Photographs depicting life in West Virginia and other parts of Appalachia have long been the subject of controversy. One documentary photographer with roots in the state’s southern coal fields is seeking to change that through his work but also has motives far more personal. |