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==Arts and culture== [[File:RogersMazzaPepperoniRoll.jpg|thumb|The [[pepperoni roll]] snack originated in Fairmont's [[Country Club Bakery]]]] Fairmont is home to [[Country Club Bakery]], which is where the [[pepperoni roll]] [[snack]] originates. The bakery continues to serve the roll along with their various other baked goods.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Virginian|first=Scott Gillespie {{!}} Times West|title=Fairmont's pepperoni roll legacy now enshrined|url=https://www.timeswv.com/news/fairmonts-pepperoni-roll-legacy-now-enshrined/article_2df57bde-b88d-11ea-bf60-5ffdc7181624.html|access-date=September 10, 2020|website=Times West Virginian|date=June 28, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Pepperoni Roll, a West Virginia Secret, created in Marion County|url=https://marioncvb.com/pepperoni-roll/|access-date=September 10, 2020|website=Marion County CVB|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Virginian|first=Scott Gillespie {{!}} Times West|title=Fairmont's pepperoni roll legacy now enshrined|url=https://www.timeswv.com/news/fairmonts-pepperoni-roll-legacy-now-enshrined/article_2df57bde-b88d-11ea-bf60-5ffdc7181624.html|access-date=March 5, 2021|website=Times West Virginian|date=June 28, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Fairmont has considered itself to be the "pepperoni roll capital of the world".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Vicki|date=March 28, 2004|title=Meaty Snack Puts W.Va. Town on the Map|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/03/28/meaty-snack-puts-wva-town-on-the-map/a4879ebf-396b-4e73-968b-9267e66cfade/|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> The city is home to multiple offices for national agencies. Fairmont's [[National White Collar Crime Center]] provides nationwide support to law enforcement agencies involved in prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic and high-tech crime. The [[NASA]] [[Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility]], governed by the [[Goddard Space Flight Center]], houses more than 150 full-time employees and more than 20 in-house partners and contractors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ivv/about/index.html |title=About IV&V | NASA |website=Nasa.gov |date=March 9, 2015 |access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref> The [[NOAA]] Robert H. Mollohan Research Facility, which receives weather data from the [[Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite]]s, houses more than 100 full-time employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wvhtf.org/2019/04/24/noaa-center-in-fairmont-wv-continues-supercomputing-cybersecurity-work/ |title=NOAA center in Fairmont, WV, continues supercomputing, cybersecurity work; High Technology Foundation |website=wvhtf.org |date=April 24, 2019 |access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref> The [[International Thespian Society]], originally called National Thespians, was founded in 1929 in Fairmont, West Virginia by Dr. Paul Opp, Earnest Bavely, and Harry T. Leeper. It honored high school theater students who participated in their school programs. The first troupe was started by Dr. Earl Blank at [[Natrona County High School]] in [[Casper, Wyoming]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.schooltheatre.org/about/history|title=History β EdTA β Educational Theatre Association|website=www.schooltheatre.org|language=en|access-date=April 27, 2025}}</ref>
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