Featuring Hometown Hero Homer Hickam, NASA Astronaut Bill Readdy and October Sky Movie Actor Scott Miles COALWOOD, W. Va. – Best selling author Homer Hickam and the cast of “Rocket Boys” and other ...

Although the ever-growing City of Beckley has welcomed the Rocket Boys Festival with open arms, the small, sleepy town of Coalwood will always be home for Homer Hickam and his rocket crew. Coalwood, ...

Coalwood, WV is the home town of Homer Hickam, whose memoir, Rocket Boys, was made into the movie October Sky. "Welcome to Coalwood" takes you to the October Sky Festival, where you'll meet the Rocket ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. — Those who drive through Coalwood and the surrounding towns today may have a hard time imagining the town described by Homer Hickam in his best-selling “Rocket Boys,” but Hickam ...

Federal authorities looking into two grants awarded to Huntington Police Department Federal investigators are taking a closer look at two federal grants awarded to the Huntington Police Department.

Throughout the summer of 1958, explosions rocked the hills and hollows near Coalwood, West Virginia. The first blasts terrified miners and their families. Had the mine blown up? Were the Russians ...

COALWOOD, W.Va. — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection along with officials from the U.S. EPA recently joined officials in McDowell County to cut the ribbon on a new sewage ...

Apr. 12—Theatre West Virginia General Manager Scott Hill will be asking Beckley Common Council to help build a theater version of Coalwood as it appeared in 196 as it, as he say, the company embarks ...