Author Makes Free Appearance at the Culture Center Thursday

Author and former speechwriter for West Virginia’s late U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd plans to discuss the myths and reality of the influential Senate leader Thursday in Charleston. David Corbin, who worked for Byrd for 16 years and another decade for other Senate leaders. He will appear in the Culture Center at the Capitol complex in a free evening program open to the public. He holds a Ph.D. in labor history, and has taught for the University of Maryland. He also authored books about the West Virginia’s southern coal fields from 1880 to 1922 and a history of the battles between unionists and coal companies.