Drawings by John White Recast Roanoke Era Images
London hosts a unique John White collection showing 16th century North American life. The drawings, oldest English depictions of Indigenous peoples, depict corn, sunflowers, dances, and medicine men. White sailed with Raleigh to Roanoke in 1585 and created studies of birds, plants, and people. The works travel to the United States later this year for exhibitions in Washington and New York.
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London
John White
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke
British Museum
United States
Washington
New York
America
Josephine
Virginia
Carolina
White
Fenn White
Cornwall
England
Frobisher
Asia
Raleigh
Are
Roanoke Colony
Glen Fork Bible School Closes With Program and Picnic
The Daily Vacation Bible School at Glen Fork Baptist will close its sessions Saturday at 7 p.m. with a program, an exhibition of work, and a picnic. Co directors are Mrs Dennie Acord Jr and Mrs Dwaine Shumate. Staff includes Elwood Powers, David E Lay, Rodney Sanders, Donna Shrewsbury, Blast Pizzino, Walter Norman, Bill Davis, Bill Price, Druicilla Price, Dianne Pizzino, Donna Harold, and pastor Rev Herbert Perry invites the public to the closing exercises.
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Glen Fork
RNS
Dennie Acord Jr
Dwaine Shumate
Elwood Powers
David E. Lay
Rodney Sanders
Donna Shrewsbury
Blast Pizzino
Walter Norman
Bill Davis
Bill Price
Drucilla Price
Dianne Pizzino
Donna Harold
Herbert Perry
Jesus, the
Promised Savior
Pitcairn Island Population and Size Report
Pitcairn Island now has a population of 193 residents and an area of two square miles. The update highlights the small remote territory known for the Bounty mutineers' settlement in 1790.
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Pitcairn Island
Bounty
Area Hospital Lists Patients
Area hospital activity shows multiple admissions and discharges from June 14 to June 17. Names include Teresa Mae White Walter Ferguson and many others from Mullens Wyom ing Clear Fork and surrounding areas. Several transfers noted and a long list of patients dismissed or admitted on successive days.
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Mullens
RNL
Wyoming
Teresa Mae White
Wyco
Lisha Toler
Clear Fork
Addie Me
Shrewsbury Stephens
Walter Ferguson
Jane Cline
Sylvia Hall
Sinance
Patsy West
Hanover
George Weaver
Juanita Daye
Kathy Robinson
Glen King
Virginia Harrold
Lonnie Roach
Rowen Clay
Charles Hicks Jr
Resoco
Betty Bentley
Pineville
Cora Pettry
Hatcher
Milburn Rinehart
Mary Harrison
Allen Junction
Valeria Hood
Helen
Harry Young
Ellen Cook Mullens
Viola Browning
Maben
Bertha Davis
Basin
Litha Lusk
Covel
Kitty Jackson
Lacy Smith
Lillian Mullins
Haida Sizemore
Otsego
Valentine Acord
Clearfork
Docia Hatcher
Betty Mills
Charles Woodrum
Charles Hicks
Teresa White
Tammie Lester
Debra Dixon
Tinker McBrayer
Andrew D'Antoni
Made Rollins
Vellar Massey
Mount Hope girl earns second in Miss FBLA contest
Mount Hope High School graduate Dorothy Brown placed second nationally in the Miss FBLA contest at the FBLA meeting in Washington DC. She represented West Virginia as Miss State FBLA out of 36 contestants with eliminations by written test and interviews. Accompanied by state and local FBLA sponsors, she toured major monuments and received a jewelry box charm bracelet and an FBLA key with her certificate of honor.
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Mount Hope
Future Business Leaders of America
Washington, D C
Dorothy Brown
West Virginia
Dorothy
United States
Miss State
Illinois
White House
Arlington Cemetery
Lincoln's
Jefferson's
Washington’s
Trudy Canterbury
Mullens
FBLA
Mayer Foner
Concord
Barbara Allen
East Bank
Joyce Woods
Nitro
Gary Austin
Charleston High School
Alberta Anderson
West Virginia Tech
Brooksie Fannin
Miss Brown
Sepes
Sheridan Park
Atel
Dottie
Frank Brown
North
Maryland Avenue
MHHS
John Brady
Ed Roberts
Ravencliff Family Welcomes Seventh Child Buddy Joe
Mrs. John Mosley returns to Ravencliff after two weeks in Axton Virginia with son-in-law Wiley Hall and daughter. The Halls are parents of a seventh child, a boy named Buddy Joe born June 7. Jerry Mosley, son of the Mosleys, has accepted work in Bassett Virginia after graduating Glen Rogers High School and Wyoming County Technical and Vocational School. Garfield Price hosts his son Stacy of Cleveland Ohio visiting with Stacy Jr and Vickie and grandparents. They travel to Glenville North Carolina to visit Charles Henry.
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Ravencliff
RNS
Axton
Wiley Hall
John Mosley
Halls
Buddy Joe
Jerry Mosley
Bassett
Glen Rogers High School
Wyoming County Technical and Vocational School
Garfield Price
Stacy
Cleveland
Ohio
Stacy Jr
Vickie
Glenville
N.C
Charles Henry
Miss Kathleen Darbyshire visits kin in Kentucky and Beckley
Mount Hope dispatch reports Miss Kathleen Darbyshire of Hardy Kentucky visiting her aunt Mrs Nokie Thompson at 724 Main Street. Capt and Mrs Kenny Williams and their children have returned to Fort Smith Arkansas after visiting Mrs Nora White and relatives in Beckley area.
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Mount Hope
Kathleen Darbyshire
Hardy, Ky
Nokie Thompson
Main Street
Kenny Williams
Fort Smith, Ark
Nora White
Beckley
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