Spring 2021 issue of GOLDENSEAL Magazine features stories from around the state

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Spring 2021 situation of GOLDENSEAL journal is now obtainable. Since 1975, GOLDENSEAL has been West Virginia’s Journal of Conventional Life.

This situation’s cowl story examines Black gospel and blues music. Doris A. Fields, higher referred to as Girl D, considered one of our state’s most gifted singers, traces the historical past of this poignant music from the slave plantations of the Deep South to the West Virginia coalfields. She discusses how gospel and blues fashioned the inspiration of recent widespread music and the way they’ve modified in some methods whereas remaining true to their roots.

This version covers a variety of different historic and cultural subjects from throughout our state. State Folklorist Emily Hilliard writes about singer and storyteller extraordinaire W.I. “Invoice” Hairston of Charleston. Edwin Daryl Michael appears on the evolution of rural images via the lens of his Marion County household within the early twentieth century. Lawrence “Larry” Cabell remembers the perilous job of digging coal from a neighborhood mine when he was a child in Boone County within the Thirties.

The late Bob Barnett, in his remaining article for GOLDENSEAL (relationship again to 1983), tells of Parkersburg’s Greasy Neale, considered one of our state’s best athletes and coaches. Aaron Parsons writes about tv information pioneer Invoice Kelley. Miriam Ralston displays on founding MAW, the primary journal solely about Appalachian girls, in Huntington within the Seventies. Ben Calwell relates the story of a mass comic-book burning at Spencer Grade Faculty (Roane County) in 1948. Nancy S. Hoffman pays a go to to the household owned Ruggles Orchard in Hampshire County. Jeffrey Shade shares how undercover state troopers introduced down the longtime red-light district at Cinder Backside (McDowell County) within the late Sixties.

Two articles are devoted to WAVES (Girls Accepted for Voluntary Service) who served our nation throughout World Battle II. Barb Howe writes about Greenbrier County native and former Tucker County resident Jessie Luckie and Isabel Lobb Jones, who not too long ago handed away in Morgantown at age 101. Sara Bragg Aikin recollects the lifetime of Ansted (Fayette County) native Ernestine Hess Davey, who died just a few months in the past at 99.

In his common “Again Roads West Virginia” column, Carl E. Feather drops by the Lenox Retailer, Preston County’s oldest constantly operated enterprise. Michael Evans Snyder salutes the late Lincoln County native Gen. Chuck Yeager, the primary particular person to interrupt the sound barrier. Writer Kathleen M. Jacobs and Ellen Lambert provide some private recollections from their lives, and Audrey Pitonak-Goff writes in regards to the Appalachian Kids’s Refrain, which simply celebrated its thirtieth anniversary.

GOLDENSEAL Journal might be bought on the following stores: