Repurposing Old Sports Gear And Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning – West Virginia Public Broadcasting

On this West Virginia Morning, most outdoor sporting gear gets thrown away when it wears out. But in western North Carolina, one climber-turned-crafter is giving old equipment a new purpose. Folkways reporter Emily Chen-Newton brings this story.

This week’s premiere episode of Mountain Stage was recorded live at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center in Huntington. Nashville banjo artist Kyle Tuttle performed work from his new solo album, “Labor of Lust.” His piece “Hard to Say,” which comes from that album, is our Song of the Week.

Also in this episode, a Democrat running for the West Virginia Senate was left off of one county’s early voting ballot. Briana Heaney has the details.

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