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Who sponsors the state's annual Quilt & Wall Hanging Exhibition?
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In the 1950s, West Virginia's Future Homemakers and Future Farmers clubs raised funds to build the Crafts House at this place.
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What arts and crafts center is located beside the West Virginia Turnpike in Beckley?
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Which one of these wild plants generates millions of dollars annually for West Virginia?
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What Fairmont resident is generally credited with inventing the pepperoni roll?
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What West Virginia city celebrates an annual New Year's Day Shanghai Parade?
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Where is West Virginia's largest Italian heritage festival held?
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What immigrant group helped found South Charleston and carried on their cultural traditions for decades?
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Why was the teaching of German forbidden in West Virginia schools in the early 1900s?
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This family, primarily associated with Pocahontas County, was studied extensively by folklorists in the 1970s for its knowledge of traditional music, storytelling, and woods lore.
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