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Produced and presented by the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University. 85 minutes. $70 ($60 seniors). ... First West Virginia Moonshine Festival. Saturday, July 6 - 11 a.m ...
Climax is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.. Climax has been referenced in popular culture thanks to Tim Smith, who is featured on the hit show Moonshiners.
Smoke Hole Caverns (SHC) is a picturesque show cave in Grant County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Draperies in the cave. SHC were opened to the public on 30 May 1940. [1] They are located near the Smoke Hole Canyon from which the cave takes its name. They are located on WV 28 13 km west of Petersburg. Cave formations
Moonshine is high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed illegally. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The name was derived from a tradition of distilling the alcohol at night to avoid detection.
Brooke County is a county in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,559. [1] Its county seat is Wellsburg. [2] The county was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County [3] and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796. [4]
Every year, the Majorette and Band Festival has an exhibition show following the final high school performance before the awards ceremony. This exhibition show features one of West Virginia's only two NCAA Division I college marching bands.
The Appalachian String Band Music Festival (often referred to simply as "Clifftop") is a weeklong gathering of thousands of string band musicians and their friends from across the country and around the world, who each year since 1990 have assembled near the New River Gorge in West Virginia in late July/early August to celebrate the evolving tradition of old-time music and the community of ...
In Eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia and western Virginia, the term Ridgerunner originally referred specifically to a transporter of illegal moonshine liquor. They were said to "run the ridges" with their illicit cargo to bypass the roads down in the hollows where law enforcement officers might find them.