West Virginia: Proving that Timing is Everything with Annie F. Downs

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon shares the story of how West Virginia broke away from the state of Virginia with author and speaker Annie F. Downs. Unhappy with their representation in state legislature, the Appalachian communities in the Northwestern part of Virginia took advantage of Virginia’s secession during the Civil War to apply for their own statehood. Sharon and Annie talk about what makes West Virginia unique in its geography, culture, and history and why it has been sued multiple times by more than one of its neighboring states.

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0:00.0	Hello, I am excited to have you here today. I am chatting with my friend Annie F Downs, and she has a fantastic
0:10.3	podcast called That Sounds Fun. She is an author and a speaker and such an enthusiastic learner.
0:17.0	I love this about her.
0:19.0	I love her level of enthusiasm for learning new things.
0:22.0	I would love to have her back all the time on this pilot. of the incredibly beautiful state of West Virginia.
0:32.7	If you've never been there, you need to visit.
0:34.9	It is a absolutely gorgeous place covered in mountains and forests.
0:40.3	And so let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So
0:46.1	podcast. I'm so excited to have my friend Eddie F Downs with me today. First of all, what does the F stand for?
0:54.5	Well, it's complicated in Swiss,
0:56.2	and so we just say Fancy.
0:57.5	Like, I might, like Reba McIntyre song,
0:59.5	I might have been born just plain white trash,
1:01.0	but Fancy was my name.
1:02.3	That's the song I always see. So that's what
1:04.5	with any fancy downs will tell everybody everything they need to know. Are you
1:09.3	fancy in most ways? Yeah, I mean I just, a friend of mine says that I have champagne taste on a beer budget is kind of my like
1:16.2	actual emo.
1:17.8	And so yes, I just like sparkly things, I like fancy things.
1:20.7	It doesn't mean I get them all the time, but like I don't need to stay in the
1:23.9	fancy hotel, but I want to walk into the lobby, you know? That's me. If we're
1:27.8	passing a fancy hotel, I want to walk through the lobby.
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