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  • Karen Spears Zacharias: Mother Jones and Transformation Through Suffering

    Karen Spears Zacharias: Mother Jones and Transformation Through Suffering

    Oct 21, 2021

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    by

    Picket Staff
    in News

    Labor organizer Mother Jones returned to West Virginia last month, given a new voice through author Karen Spears Zacharias as…

  • Story-telling Freshens Awareness of Appalachian Culture

    Story-telling Freshens Awareness of Appalachian Culture

    Sep 29, 2017

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    by

    Picket Staff
    in Arts & Culture, Current, Features

    (The Picket)-The multiculturalism of Appalachia has often been overlooked, a storyteller said Monday as part of Appalachian Heritage Festival Week…

  • Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence and Appalachian Heritage Festival, Honoring Written Words, and Appalachian Culture.

    Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence and Appalachian Heritage Festival, Honoring Written Words, and Appalachian Culture.

    Sep 23, 2016

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    by

    Picket Staff
    in Arts & Culture, Current, Features, News

    (The Picket)- Not many of us have an impression of Appalachian Culture and what would be written work related to…

  • Affrilachia Returns to Shepherd

    Affrilachia Returns to Shepherd

    Oct 3, 2014

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    by

    Picket Staff
    in News

    In an event held on September 23, Frank X Walker and his fellow Affrilachian writers stunned a standing room only…

  • Shepherdstown Speaks: Appalachian Storytelling

    Oct 29, 2013

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    by

    Picket Staff
    in Arts & Culture, Style

    The second Tuesday of each month will bring together the campus and Shepherdstown community as one university professor starts a…

  • AHWIR Event: The Writing Life with Frank X Walker

    Oct 1, 2013

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    by

    Picket Staff
    in News

    Frank X Walker held a discussion of his works and his experience as a writer to a full house this…

  • Frank X Walker Delivers Scarborough Lecture

    Frank X Walker Delivers Scarborough Lecture

    Oct 1, 2013

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    by

    Picket Staff
    in News

    Frank X. Walker, the 2013 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence, delivered the Scarborough Lecture titled “Voices from Affrilachia” and received the Appalachian…

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