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Women of the Mountain State

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How many women have served as West Virginia's attorney general?
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This Charleston native wrote the play Great Gettin' Up Mornin', which won first place in the National Collegiate Playwriting Contest and was broadcast by CBS-TV.
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This Parkersburg music teacher wrote the 1971 book Singa Hipsy Doodle and Other Folk Songs of West Virginia.
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This 4-H leader started the first Mountain Heritage Weekend in 1968.
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The mother of which president was supposedly born in present-day Mineral County?
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In 1970, she established the Eco Theater near Hinton as an indigenous mountain theater, using Summers County people as actors.
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This Charleston native won the Governor's Award in the annual West Virginia Juried Exhibition four times.
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Anne Newport Royall was best known for writing in this genre.
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This poet, who grew up in Bramwell, played a significant role in the Harlem Renaissance and had her work published in the first edition of the prestigious Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
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What Fayette County legislator once helped break up an armed robbery at the bank where she worked?
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