In Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia, Emily Hilliard draws from her work as state folklorist, exploring contemporary folklife in West Virginia and challenges the common perception of both folklore and Appalachian culture as static, antiquated forms, offering instead the concept of “visionary folklore” as a future-focused, materialist, and collaborative approach to cultural work.
Emily is a folklorist and writer based in central Appalachia. She is the former West Virginia state folklorist and the founding director of the West Virginia Folklife Program. Find more of her work at emilyehilliard.com.
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Dec. 6, 2022 at Noon: “Walking Woody’s Road” with Musician Tom Breiding
Warwood native Tom Breiding has been invited to perform at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Woody’s hometown of Okemah, OK for the past four consecutive years and his 2020 release “Love Commits Me Here” is Tom’s most recent tribute the hard wrought labors of mining, steel, and growing up. Tom will provide a musical tribute to Woody Guthrie at Lunch With Books. In addition to providing the songs for the “Fairness at Patriot” and “Keep the Promise” rallies, Tom Breiding was commissioned by the United Mine Workers Union to write and perform original songs for the the 100 year commemoration of the Ludlow Massacre, the 50 year commemoration of the Farmington mine disaster, the International Inaugurations of Officers, and International President Cecil Roberts lifetime award from the Labor Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. To learn more about Tom, visit his website at tombreiding.com.
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Dec. 13, 2022 at Noon: The Coal Trap with Jamie Van Nostrand
In, The Coal Trap: How West Virginia Was Left Behind in the Clean Energy Revolution, Jamie Van Nostrand, the Charles M. Love, Jr. Endowed Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law and Director of its Center for Energy and Sustainable Development, tells the story of why West Virginia now faces overwhelming obstacles to competing in the economic marketplace of the twenty-first century. The book serves as a warning of how a fair energy transition can be derailed by political failure. Van Nostrand has forty years’ experience in a variety of roles in the energy industry, including positions as a regulator, energy lawyer, and director of a New York-based environmental nongovernmental organization.
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Dec. 20, 2022 at Noon: Re-imagining the Music of Christmas with the Mazure Brothers
Vance and Luke Mazure will be performing duo renditions of classic Christmas songs and jazz standards. Their affinity for reimagining Christmas music can be traced back to their time at Wheeling Park High School performing in the Festival of Sound. Listen for the tunes we all know and love as well as creative and exploratory improvisation between the two brothers!
Vance Mazure is a composer, arranger, and guitarist studying Commercial Music at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. Outside of his coursework, he spends his time gigging with and writing/arranging/recording for various Nashville artists. Vance will stay in Nashville after completing his degree and continue working in the music industry.
Luke Mazure is a multi-instrumentalist studying Music Education at WVU. In addition to studying at WVU, he does clinics for schools in the Ohio Valley and takes gigs at many local venues. Luke plans to come back and work in the area after graduating.
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Dec. 27, 2022: Christmas Break – No Program
People’s University: Special Edition
Apollo 17: 50 Years
NASA’s Apollo 17 moon mission took place between December 7 (launch) and Dec. 19 (splashdown), 1972. It was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program and remains the most recent time any human beings have set foot on the Moon. In a special, two-part series in its People’s University program, the Ohio County Public Library will explore: What did we learn, and how will the coming Moon rush be better? Why does the Moon change shape and position in the sky every night? What is the Artemis Mission and how does it compare to Apollo Missions? These family-friendly sessions will answer these questions and more.
Dec. 8, 2022 (Thurs. @ 7 PM) – Class 1
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Dec. 15, 2022 (Thurs. @ 7 PM) – Class 2
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Instructor Chuck Wood has studied the Moon for himself and NASA for 70 years, he has trained astronauts, studied volcanoes on Earth and elsewhere, and writes novels about Wheeling history.
Instructor Jeanne Finstein, most often thought of as a local “building hugger,” is also a self-described “NASA Junkie” who witnessed in person both the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 liftoffs (first and last manned Moon missions). She’ll add some interactive activities to the sessions.
