Norm Julian and Al Anderson would have been great in a buddy movie. Heck, the visuals alone would have gotten it. There was Al, a kinetic Black […]
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Their chairs are empty: Star City gathers for Memorial Day ceremony
STAR CITY — The wind whipped along the banks of the Monongahela River Monday morning, but the rain held back as dozens of spectators gathered at John […]
Aristotle Jones’ ‘Streets of Osage’ celebrates Al Anderson and the coal camp
How’s this for a love song? Aristotle Jones, the Morgantown musician, songwriter and performer who regularly sings the praises of the Osage coal camp, smiled when he […]
Black, white and the Golden Rule: Al Anderson recalls historic MLK speech, ponders present and future
It’s all the stuff that keeps bubbling up after, Al Anderson said the other day. The Osage activist and old R&B singer allowed himself a brief bit […]
‘John was my buddy’: Family, friends gather to say goodbye to Mon lawmaker John Pyles
Two TV screens positioned above the communion table at Wesley United Methodist Church told an American tale Monday morning. The telling was in the form of an […]
Morgantown’s MLK celebration discusses a Dream that hasn’t quite come true, participants say
Al Anderson’s jukebox rasp cut through the Zoom proceedings during Morgantown’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances Monday afternoon. Anderson, the Osage octogenarian, is known these […]
Al Anderson: ‘We all live here’
OSAGE — Listen to Al Anderson talk, and you’ll hear a whole jukebox in your head. After the ambient drop of the needle onto the grooves of […]
