HUMANITIES COUNCIL RELEASES FALL ISSUE OF PEOPLE & MOUNTAINS

Charleston—The West Virginia Humanities Council has released the Fall 2026 edition of its digital magazine, People & Mountains. It can be accessed from the Council’s website: wvhumanities.org.

This issue profiles award-winning journalist and historian Rick Atkinson, who will present the 2026 Betsy K. McCreight Lecture in the Humanities at the Capitol Theater, October 15, at 7:30 p.m., in Charleston. For more than four decades, the Council’s annual McCreight Lecture has connected West Virginia audiences to some of the nation’s premier public intellectuals.