Anna Across America - Charleston, West Virginia

With its gilded-domed capitol shining over the city, we take a stop in Charleston, West Virginia in our state capital tour.    West Virginia became a state during the Civil War by Presidential Proclamation -- with Abraham Lincoln taking part of Union-occupied Virginia and declaring it a new state.  Charleston has been the capital of the Mountain State since 1877.

Photo Credit:  D. Trundle

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To promote the low calorie Dr Pepper 10, the "Mountain Man" ad campaign was launched and targeted the weight-watching male demographic.  The ads, first airing in 2011, hark back to a classic commercial (Hamm's Beer) and TV show (Grizzly Adams) from the 1970s featuring a bearded outdoorsman and his pet bear.  A compilation of these ads follows below.

http://youtu.be/a7Dcoer2oxA