W.Va.
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Two weeks later, after packing most of his belongings into U-Haul shipping crates, we left Parkersburg, W.Va., in Steve’s red Volkswagen Golf with two suitcases, one Treeing Walker Coonhound and one Aussie/Chow mix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Every year in May, the small Appalachian town of Buckhannon, W.Va., hosts a weeklong Strawberry Festival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
A story about a mother and daughter set in the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, W.Va., after the Civil War.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2024
Margie Howells, an elementary math teacher in Wheeling, W.Va., first went researching best practices because there weren’t as many resources for dyscalculia, a math learning disability, as there were for dyslexia.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
W.Va., obtaining the following composition: In 1000 c.c.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
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