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West Virginia State Museum
Right in the state capitol complex in Charleston is a cultural centre with a museum underground. It’s a noisy museum with audio playing in every gallery interpreting state history. The audio overlaps in the corridors. It’s also a very southern museum. European invaders who duped the natives out of their Read more
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West Virginia State Capitol
This is the first state or provincial capitol building I’ve been to in North America that just lets anyone roam in without an appointment. I really like it, it’s a symbol of access and democracy to a jurisdictions top legislative organ. I could just walk right into the governor’s office Read more
Cities
Charleston, WV
I blasted Take Me Home Country Roads as I drove through the capital of West Virginia. It’s true, the houses are made of old rusty sheets of metal, the roads are overgrown with weeds and people paste the confederate battle flag on every flat surface they can find. Mountain mamas Read more
Cities
Fort Mill, SC
Only a half-hour south of Charlotte in North Carolina, Fort Mill was the last place the Confederacy had its last cabinet meeting in 1865. The town has a Confederate Park at one end of he historic area established in 1891 to remember those who died in the Civil War. The Read more
Iconic Places
NASCAR Hall of Fame
All car museums are laid out the same way, I’ve been to enough of them to know. There’s always a big entranceway with a two-tiered display of a couple of dozen cars angled toward the visitor. The whole thing started when the depression-era bootleggers needed to run from the law. Read more
Iconic Places
Charlotte Speedway
Charlotte is the headquarters of NASCAR, so its racetrack is naturally the American home of speed. The Charlotte Speedway doesn’t just host races, it also has a star-studded history of being on the silver screen. Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, Burt Reynolds in Stroker Ace, and Elvis Presley in Read more