WIKI TIKI WEDNESDAY - GEORGE ELLIS MOORE

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When Billy Jim Hawkins suggested that Professor Augustus Bitterman should write a book about the history of their beloved West Virginia, Gus Bitterman waved off the suggestion by pointing out that a very good one was already written by George Ellis Moore.

This is an influx of reality into the fictional world of Earth Prime-Time.  Mr. Moore did indeed write a book about the statehood of West Virginia, and it's still in print.

George Ellis Moore does not have his own Wikipedia page, but I was able to find some information about him and his book from other sources, including the Find A Grave website.

GEORGE ELLIS MOORE

BIRTH
14 Mar 1916
Mannington, Marion County, West Virginia, USA

DEATH
16 Feb 1970 (aged 53)
Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland, USA

BURIAL
IOOF Cemetery
Enterprise, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA

KNOWN FOR:
A Banner in the Hills: West Virginia’s Statehood
by George Ellis Moore

Publisher Meredith Publishing

Publication date
January 1, 1963

LanguageEnglish

Book length
256 pages

From:
"The Slaveholders’ War: The Secession Crisis in Kanawha County, Western Virginia, 1860-1861"
by
Scott A. MacKenzie

West Virginia’s historians have tended to minimize the importance of slavery in the state’s formation. With fewer than fifteen thousand slaves in the forty-eight counties that formed the state in 1863, the scarcity of the institution appeared to have had little hold over the region. Charles Ambler and George E. Moore contrasted the slave-based plantation economy of eastern Virginia with that of the free labor-based small farms and factories in the west to explain the state’s formation.   

West Virginia is the home state for several TV shows with a fictional setting.  The two I can think of off the top of my head are 'Hawkins', of course, which was set in the fictional town of Beauville in Logan County, and 'The Real McCoys' which had the family moving from Smokey Corners to California.

Just checking Wikipedia, there was a recent show called 'Outcast' which took place in Rome, WV.  They also list Tyler Perry's 'Meet The Browns', but their article only talks about Atlanta, Georgia.  So I'm not sure what the connection is to West Virginny,

BCnU!