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Putnam County native Mary Meek Atkeson was a noted author on this subject.
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This Monroe County historian and doctor is remembered for making lye soap at the annual Mountain State Art & Craft Fair.
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What Martinsburg native won a gold medal in women's basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics?
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She was the first Black woman to become a solo pilot in West Virginia State College's (now University) Civilian Pilot Training Program.
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Which university's art gallery is named for Della Brown Taylor Hardman?
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Who wrote the classic children's novel Shiloh?
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This Alderson native ran a popular nightclub in Paris, and Cole Porter supposedly wrote a song about her.
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This country music singer, who grew up in Hinton, had 19 Top Ten hits, including “Then and Only Then,” "Nobody but a Fool (Would Love You)," “The Hurtin’s All Over,” and “Cincinnati, Ohio."
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Dorothy Thompson of Tucker County was awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship for this skill.
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In what year did women get the right to vote in West Virginia?
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