STAR CITY -- “No person was ever honored for what they received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” With that quote from Calvin Cooidge, former Star City Mayor and Councilman, and Air Force Veteran, Bob Musick opened Star City’s annual Memorial Day ceremony on a ...
Norm Julian and Al Anderson would have been great in a buddy movie. Heck, the visuals alone would have gotten it. There was Al, a kinetic Black man who sounded like a Stax 45 single on the jukebox when he talked. Still does, in fact. Maybe that’s because he once made a sizable ...
STAR CITY -- The wind whipped along the banks of the Monongahela River Monday morning, but the rain held back as dozens of spectators gathered at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park for the town of Star City’s annual Memorial Day ceremony. The crowd gathered under and around a temporary ...
How’s this for a love song? Aristotle Jones, the Morgantown musician, songwriter and performer who regularly sings the praises of the Osage coal camp, smiled when he heard about how its residents delivered that day. When Osage’s U.S. Post Office building was permanently shuttered a ...
It’s all the stuff that keeps bubbling up after, Al Anderson said the other day. The Osage activist and old R&B singer allowed himself a brief bit of uncharacteristic melancholy, as he looked toward Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. He was there on the mall in ...
Two TV screens positioned above the communion table at Wesley United Methodist Church told an American tale Monday morning. The telling was in the form of an endless loop of snapshots and formal photographs, depicting the life and times of John Pyles. Pyles, a longtime Monongalia County ...