HINTON, WV (WVNS) - The 59th annual Hinton Railroad Days is right on track.

Saturdays always prove to be the biggest day of Hinton’s Railroad Days. For the 2025 edition, they started the busiest day off a little differently, by honoring Blind Alfred Reed. Reed is a highly talented musician who originated from Hinton, with his own plaque.

“He was a West Virginia visionary. He's in the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame as a fiddle player. Some of the songs he wrote were really exciting and talking about cultural things and challenging people, which was way ahead of its time. He started out here in Hinton, eventually moved to Princeton, and then and then went to Beckley, was inducted into West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2007 with Bill Withers and Little Jimmy Dickens. I mean, he was quit

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