Jean Snedegar
Jean Snedegar got her start in radio at age 13. As an 8th grader she helped produce school programs for WDNE in Elkins, but didn’t start her professional career in radio until she was nearly 30 and living in England.
For more than 20 years she worked as a freelance reporter on BBC Radio’s national speech network – Radio 4, and their international radio network, the BBC World Service – at the time one of the few North American voices on the BBC.
But after more than 25 years in London, she started to hanker for the mountains of West Virginia. In 2002 she returned to her home state. Though she sometimes misses the excitement of walking into Broadcasting House in London, she is grateful every day when she looks out her office window overlooking Elkins.
Since 2010 Jean has been producing Inspiring West Virginians, profiles of West Virginians who are global leaders in the sciences and in business.
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In the next part of our occasional series on the timber and forest products industry – from seedlings to final products, we reach our first final...
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Most of the state’s trees are harvested by small-scale logging operations, using chainsaws, but a growing number of logging companies use large,...
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Halfway between Mill Creek and Helvetia, West Virginia, four miles or so off the main road, Scotty Cook, the owner of a small-scale logging operation in...
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"Just as we came to the hills, we met with a Sycamore.....of a most extraordinary size, it measuring three feet from the ground, forty-five feet round,...
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Editor's Note: This story is part of an occasional series from independent producer Jean Snedegar about the timber and forest products industry here in...