There are so many of us now with ties to West Virginia. I'd like to get a head count. Please sign in if you are a native, previous or current resident, or married to any of the above. If your ties to WV are convoluted, please explain. If you just want to be a West Virginia, just get in line like everyone else.
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Um...well, my granddaddy and grandma raised my dad in the same area of southwest Virginia where cowtime now resides, but they had quite a few coal-interest holdings in West Virginia. I don't know if that counts, but once they took me on a tour of the Pocahontas coal mine.
Did my hospital internship in Charleston, 1981-1982. Lived in a nice little apartment on Wyoming Street. Had a wonderful year. Loved WV but have not been back, sad to say.
Dale wrote:Did my hospital internship in Charleston, 1981-1982. Lived in a nice little apartment on Wyoming Street. Had a wonderful year. Loved WV but have not been back, sad to say.
Don't go back. With all the economic depression, young people leaving, and rampant drug problems, Charleston has become something of a third world city in a lot of ways. West Virginia as a whole is in need of some kind of help, though I couldn't begin to say what kind. Somebody needs to begin to say what kind.
For better or worse, I was born and bred in West Virginia. As I have talked about with Walden, West Virginia is on or near the bottom of the list of poorest states (meaning it's super poor) and also curiously on the list of states with the fewest higher-educated people. West Virginia is the ONLY state or province entirely within Appalachia, and it is often overlooked because the poor there are mostly white, rural, and not a gay black hispanic lesbian kind of audience (i.e. one whose cause it's politically correct to work on behalf of).
I used to have a cassette of Boots Randolph playing "Take Me Home, Country Roads." It was an instrumental, but I think that the lyrics of the song made mention of West Virginia. That's my connection.
My mother-in-law lived in WV when I got married. She had a farm down in a holler at the end of many miles of dirt road. Complete with a gas well (no mineral rights). It was a breathtakingly beautiful place.
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Walden wrote:I used to have a cassette of Boots Randolph playing "Take Me Home, Country Roads." It was an instrumental, but I think that the lyrics of the song made mention of West Virginia. That's my connection.
Oh ya?
Well... I live in the West and I once knew a gal named Virgina.
chas wrote:My mother-in-law lived in WV when I got married. She had a farm down in a holler at the end of many miles of dirt road. Complete with a gas well (no mineral rights). It was a breathtakingly beautiful place.
