Making our Future—A WV Living Book Club Discussion Event

Name: Making our Future—A WV Living Book Club Discussion Event
Start: 2025-09-18T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-18T20:00:00-04:00
Location: The FARM—Food Arts Recreation Market

Schedule

Thu Sep 18 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The FARM—Food Arts Recreation Market | Granville, WV

Our WV LIVING BOOK CLUB isn’t your run-of-the-mill book club. Each issue, we choose a book to read that meets one of the following criteria:
A book about West Virginia
A book by a West Virginian
A book printed and distributed through WVU Press

You can join us in person at The F.A.R.M in Granville, right outside of Morgantown, or join us virtually. Our goal is to make it fun and interactive. We theme our gatherings by incorporating food that fits with the tone and tenor of the book and facilitate discussion with the author or a subject expert.
In Making our Future, Emily Hilliard, the state’s former folklorist, writes about everything from the cultural significance of the West Virginia hot dog, the tradition of independent pro wrestling in Appalachia, the practice of nonprofessional women songwriters, the collective counter narrative of a multiracial coal camp community, the invisible landscape of writer Breece D'J Pancake's hometown, the foodways of Helvetia, and the post apocalyptic vision presented in the video game Fallout 76, and more. The book argues that folklore is a unifying concept that puts diverse cultural forms in conversation, as well as a framework that helps us reckon with the past, understand the present, and collectively shape the future. This book makes for thoughtful discussion!