CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Winter 2020 difficulty of GOLDENSEAL is now obtainable. It covers a variety of tales about West Virginia historical past and tradition from throughout the state. Since 1975, GOLDENSEAL has been West Virginia’s Journal of Conventional Life.
This difficulty’s cowl story is devoted to dancer, artist, writer and trainer Jude Binder of Calhoun County. The article, written by Douglas John Imbrogno, highlights Jude’s work with youngsters in central West Virginia as a part of Heartwood within the Hills, a faculty for the humanities she based in 1982. For practically 40 years, she’s impressed younger individuals to find the thrill of the humanities and to stay out their goals, wherever these goals might lead them.
Different articles study the Mountain Craft Store, “Wetzel County’s solely amusement park,” within the phrases of proprietor and chief toymaker Steve Conlon (by Zack Harold); apple butter making, a household custom in Hampshire County (by Tina Ladd); somewhat home with a variety of particular reminiscences on the campus of Shepherd College (by Carl E. Feather); the combat for ladies’s suffrage within the Mountain State (by Christine M. Kreiser); Raleigh County’s mysterious Ferguson Rock (by Merle T. Cole and Tom Sopher); tributes to the previous WVU Subject Home in Morgantown (by Norman Julian) and rising up listening to Mountaineer basketball on radio (by John A. Hunter Jr.); the burning of the state capitol in January 1921 (by Stan Bumgardner); the poem “The Many Mamaw Melitas Who Raised Us (by Andréa Fekete); doodlebugging in Barbour County (by David Ball); the lifetime of trainer and farmer Jack Corder of Doddridge County (by C. Lee Corder); a digital tour in and across the Preston County city of Aurora (by Donetta Sisler); and a go to with scrap-metal artists Ken and Pleasure Sinsel of Hancock County (by Carl E. Feather).
On this difficulty, GOLDENSEAL additionally honors West Virginians within the fields of historical past and humanities who we misplaced in 2020. State folklorist Emily Hilliard writes a transferring tribute to Lincoln County’s Elaine Purkey, a folks singer, labor songwriter and trainer who touched numerous lives.
GOLDENSEAL is revealed quarterly by the West Virginia Division of Arts, Tradition & Historical past. You may order copies from GOLDENSEAL’s on-line retailer or name 304-558-0220, ext. 134. Particular person copies are $5.95/difficulty + $1.00 delivery, or you may order subscriptions for one yr ($20), two years ($36), or three years ($50).
GOLDENSEAL Journal may be bought on the following shops:
- Brushy Ridge Farm, Augusta, Hampshire County
- 4 Seasons Books, Shepherdstown, Jefferson County
- State Museum Reward Store, Tradition Middle, Charleston, Kanawha County
- Taylor Books, Charleston, Kanawha County
- West Virginia Market Place at Capitol Market, Charleston, Kanawha County
- Appalachian Glass, Weston, Lewis County
- Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Advanced, Moundsville, Marshall County
Railroad Depot, Bramwell, Mercer County - E-book Alternate, Morgantown, Monongalia County
- Ruby Memorial Hospital Reward Store, Morgantown, Monongalia County
- The Monroe Watchman Newspaper, Monroe County
- Cacapon Resort State Park, Morgan County
- Nicholas Chronicle Newspaper, Summersville, Nicholas County
- Wheeling Artisan Middle, Wheeling, Ohio County
- Tamarack: The Better of West Virginia, Beckley, Raleigh County
- Pipestem Resort State Park, Summers/Mercer County
- Tygart Lake State Park, Taylor County
- Blackwater Falls State Park, Tucker County
- Hundred Farm Provide, Hundred, Wetzel County
- Witschey’s Market, New Martinsville, Wetzel County
- Peoples Information, Parkersburg, Wooden County
- Twin Falls State Park, Wyoming County
