COMING SOON! Welcome to the Little Beaver Historical Society Keystone Excavator [Listen Time: 00:00 minutes] [Read Time: 3:00 minutes] Welcome to the Little Beaver Historical Society. This machine could be considered America’s first backhoe, and it is an important link to our nation’s industrial past. The Model 3 Keystone Traction Excavator with skimmer scoop was …
Mothman Returns On episode 20 of Tony Lavorgne’s Legends & Lore Podcast, Tony presents West Virginia’s most famous and otherworldly tale about the Mothman–a dark mysterious man-like creature with ten-foot wings and glowing red eyes. SUPPORT LOCAL PODCASTING Let’s keep local podcasting alive! If you like our podcast, please help us continue …
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Rich Everitt | The Day the Music Died On episode 8 of the Live Mike Podcast with Mike Romigh, Mike talks with author Rich Everitt about his book, Falling Stars: Air Crashes that Filled Rock & Roll Heaven, the true-life tales of twenty-four singers and musicians who died in airplane crashes, including Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, …
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness,” said social scientist Margaret Mead,” with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder . . . ” Understanding and appreciating our amazing social traditions–from how we bury our dead to how we prepare holiday meals together–is “doing anthropology.” At The Social Voice Project, we celebrate history and people …
Welcome to the Little Beaver Historical Society The IBM 604 [Listen Time: 2:16 minutes] [Read Time: 3:00 minutes] What you see before you is the “IBM 604,” a very rare example of an industrial computer built decades before the desktop office computer. This exhibit is one of only three units known to exist in …
Whenever I talk to groups about my work recording veterans oral histories, I usually share a story about Mr. Donald Myers, a WWII Marine officer who led his troops through some of the most horrific combat in the South Pacific islands. Think of those old black & white war films from the islands. Flame-throwers, bayonets, …
We often think of oral history projects as stodgy and boring, mere catalogs of dates, names, places, and self-important stories with little relevance to anyone else but the interviewee. To some extent, we can’t argue with this assessment. Too many oral histories are, in fact, unappealing, especially long-form interviews. In our experience, the net effect …
On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, take a moment (12 minutes) to listen to an amazing emotional reunion between a Jewish father and son separated by the Nazis during WWII. Until this moment, each thought the other was dead. Listen, and you will witness a remarkable, deeply human moment almost beyond words–in fact, for a …
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