The last Little Lecture for 2015 presented by archeologist Stephen McBride at Humanities Council headquarters in Charleston. Admission is $10.
West Virginia author Glenn Taylor examines the potential of the novel in helping re-tool the public consciousness toward a more complex understanding of our state and its people. Admission is $10. Call 304-346-8500 to confirm seating..
Award-winning reporter of coal mining issues Ken Ward will relate his experiences reporting the landmark trial of coal executive Don Blankenship.
Jill Malusky shares the story of how Shaker missionaries established a successful communal society on the western frontier with amazing craftsmanship, architecture, and radically different social ideals. Preservation efforts have made Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill one of the largest historic sites of its kind in the country. Admission is $10. Call 304-346-8500 to confirm […]
West Virginia University folklorist Rosemary Hathaway discusses the origins of the WVU Mountaineer mascot.
Dr. Ann Serafin, executive director of Adaland Mansion in Philippi, will share the success story of the restoration of the 1870 Greek Revival mansion and National Register of Historic Places property and its evolution into an important public space in the hills of Barbour County. It was listed on the National Register in 1995 and […]
The May 19 Little Lecture brings Mount St. Mary’s University Provost Dr. Boyd Creasman to MacFarland-Hubbard House for a presentation titled “Contemporary Literature from West Virginia” that draws from his recent book Writing West Virginia. Creasman was an English faculty member and administrator for 27 years at West Virginia Wesleyan College. His research and teaching […]
Marshall University art history professor Dr. Heather Stark will talk about “Controversies in Modern Art.” The 19th and 20th centuries introduced a plethora of new forms of visual representation to the public, many of which were rejected or their legitimacy as art challenged. Dr. Stark will discuss three such controversial works and the controversies they […]
The West Virginia Humanities Council presents, "The History of Salt in the Kanawha Valley," a Little Lecture by Nancy Bruns. Seventh-generation saltmaker Bruns is co-owner of the 200-year-old J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works in Malden, where she and her brother Lewis Payne have revitalized interest in the salt manufacturing that was once the Kanawha Valley’s first major […]
The West Virginia Humanities Council presents, "East Enders: Architectural Heirlooms in Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood," a Little Lecture by Dr. Billy Joe Peyton. rrThe history of Charleston's East End is a 150-year saga that begins with a neighborhood of exquisitely crafted homes built between the 1870s and 1930s, followed by years of decay and demolition prior […]
The West Virginia Humanities Council presents, "Black Huntington and the Rise of the African American Middle Class," a Little Lecture by Kenzie New, Director of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, founded in 2015 in Matewan, and the project director of the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial.rrThough nearly a century has passed since the Battle […]
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As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers only knew Heart Mountain, Wyoming as the place where their parents met during World War II. But as the Higuchi children grew older, they learned it was where thousands of Japanese Americans, their parents included, were forced into a hastily built concentration camp by President Franklin Roosevelt’s […]
This year marks the centennial of the 1922 Charles Town treason trials that followed the famous Battle of Blair Mountain—which saw approximately 10,000 armed West Virginia coal miners fight a pitched three-day battle in Logan County to free fellow miners imprisoned under martial law. In the months that followed the battle, over 500 miners and […]
Very few works of historical fiction have been set in the tumultuous world of the West Virginia Mine Wars since the release of Denise Giardina’s monumental novel Storming Heaven in 1987. That changed in late 2021 with first-time novelist W. Jeff Barnes and his book Mingo which follows two brothers, separated by the 1912 Paint […]
The Little Lectures are informal programs featuring speakers on a variety of topics. In-person programs are presented on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. at our headquarters located at 1310 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, in the parlor of MacFarland-Hubbard House. The series is one of the many ways the Humanities Council shares our historic property with […]
The Little Lectures are informal programs featuring speakers on a variety of topics. In-person programs are presented on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. at our headquarters located at 1310 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, in the parlor of MacFarland-Hubbard House. The series is one of the many ways the Humanities Council shares our historic property with […]
The Little Lectures are informal programs featuring speakers on a variety of topics. In-person programs are presented on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. at our headquarters located at 1310 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, in the parlor of MacFarland-Hubbard House. rrThe Civil Rights movement of the 1960s often monopolizes popular memory of the era, crowding out […]
The Little Lectures are informal programs featuring speakers on a variety of topics. In-person programs are presented on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. at our headquarters located at 1310 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, in the parlor of MacFarland-Hubbard House. The series is one of the many ways the Humanities Council shares our historic property with […]
(FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR LITTLE LECTURES PROGRAM PAGE.) In 1774, the quiet confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio rivers witnessed a great clash of arms as Virginia militiamen fought with a coalition led by the Shawnee people at modern-day Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Set against the backdrop of a deepening crisis in the […]
