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Norfolk, home of the world's largest naval base, may have launched a thousand ships, but it has never christened much, in the way of the arts. The city (pop. 330,000) lacks the colonial quaintness of nearby Williamsburg, the antebellum allure of Savannah or Charleston's successful new Spoleto Festival. But in 1975, Norfolk acquired some culture: the Virginia Opera Association. The founders were a group of wealthy, energetic women who took over the old 1,800-seat Center Theater, a concrete WPA-era pile blessed only with good acoustics. They pushed ticket sales hard...
...hotel. Also singing and dancing across the stage are a lessthan-scrupulous lawyer, a Mexican bandit, a stern uncle, a cooing couple and assorted chorus members. The folderol produces no fewer than four marriages, as well as such numbers as "The Half of It Dearie Blues," "I'd Rather Charleston" and "The Man I Love...
Daugherty spent her early childhood in a small West Virginia town where her parents worked in the coal mining and glass industries, as their parents had. During the Great Depression of the '30s, the family moved to Charleston, West Virginia, for factory jobs. The move to the city opened up "very unusual opportunities" for Daugherty; the higher quality of schooling in the city led to scholarships and a Biblical Studies degree at Morris Harvey College in Charleston. After that, Daugherty went on to graduate school in Richmond, Virginia, and to three years of Presbyterian Church missionary work in Brazil...
...campaign promises and doublecrossed them. In the past, 17's members have struck over things that have nothing to do with coal or the U.M.W.: the banning of studded tires, school textbooks regarded as damaging to children, gasoline rationing and the condition of Cabin Creek Road near Charleston...
...Charleston...