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Celebrating Constitution Day and Remembering Vietnam

9/19/2017

 
After kicking off our 2017-2018 film series with a free screening of the acclaimed documentary film Tickling Giants on September 6, the Byrd Center’s fall events calendar moved into high gear last week with two timely thought-provoking events.

​On Thursday, September 14, we celebrated Constitution Day with our signature annual event, the Tom E. Moses Memorial Lecture on the U.S. Constitution. This year’s guest, Ganesh Sitaraman, a Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University and former policy advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren, discussed his new book
The Crisis of the Middle Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic with a packed house.  Sitaraman’s engaging talk highlighted how the current extreme levels of income disparity in the U.S. represent a distinct deviation from the relative economic equality that characterized the colonial and early republic eras in America.  Audience members offered insightful questions in an extended Q&A session following the formal remarks and carried those conversations on through a reception and book signing that capped the evening’s events.
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Ganesh Sitaraman delivers the 14th Annual Tom E. Moses Memorial Lecture on the Constitution.

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Corridor L: Building and Expanding a Path for Tourism in West Virginia

9/5/2017

 
By Jody Brumage

Corridor L is one of West Virginia’s segments of the Appalachian Development Highway System, connecting two U.S. Interstates, I-77 and I-79. The road travels over one of the state’s most recognizable landmarks, the New River Gorge Bridge, and is an important link to major tourist and recreation sites. Like the other corridor highways in West Virginia, Corridor L was originally planned in 1965 with the passage of the Appalachian Regional Development Act. Construction on the highway, originally a two-lane road, was initiated in 1969 and completed a decade later, extending for 70.2 miles through Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, and Braxton Counties.  The famous bridge, carrying the highway over the New River, was completed in 1977 and stood as the world’s longest single-arch steel span (a record which remained unbroken until 2003).​
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A map of the Appalachian Corridor Highways in West Virginia. Corridor L is marked in yellow near the center. (e-WV, West Virginia Humanities Council)

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