The Spring 2020 difficulty of GOLDENSEAL is now out there for buy at choose retailers or by calling the GOLDENSEAL workplace. GOLDENESEAL, West Virginia’s journal of conventional life since 1975, is revealed quarterly by the West Virginia Division of Arts, Tradition and Historical past.
The Spring 2020 GOLDENSEAL cowl story is devoted to the a centesimal anniversary of the “Matewan Bloodbath,” a lethal shootout in Mingo County between labor activists and Baldwin-Felts coal-mine guards on Might 19, 1920. Ten folks have been killed in broad daylight, resulting in the revenge killing of Matewan police chief Sid Hatfield and his pal Ed Chambers over a 12 months later. Hatfield’s assassination prompted a march of armed coal miners on Logan and Mingo counties that ended with the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain — the nation’s largest armed rebel because the Civil Struggle.
Articles and uncommon photographs on this difficulty look at the Matewan shootout (written by Aaron Parsons), hypothesis on who fired the primary shot and the function of Baldwin-Felts agent C.E. Energetic (written by Doug Estepp), the widow of each Hatfield and Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman (written by Randy Marcum), overviews of John Sayles’ movie “Matewan” and McDowell County native Jean Battlo’s play “Terror of the Tug” (written by Stan Bumgardner), and a have a look at Matewan right now (written by Kenzie New).
To order the Spring difficulty, name the GOLDENSEAL workplace at 304-558-0220. The fee is $5.95 plus delivery or $20 for a one-year subscription (4 quarterly points). As well as, you may order by calling 304-558-0220, ext. 134, or by visiting WV’s on-line retailer: epay.wvsto.com.
Different options of the brand new difficulty embrace a recap of the 2019 Vandalia Gathering and profiles of the Weirton Serbian Picnic Grounds Hen Blast (by Emily Hilliard); 1920 recommendation to graduates of Clarksburg-Irving Excessive College (by Ellen Lambert); a tribute to musician Dwight Diller (by Kim Johnson); Pocahontas County poet Kirk Judd (by Dan Kincaid); the 120-year-old Shinnston Plumbing enterprise (by Edwin Daryl Michael); Might Present Maddox, “Fairmont’s Gold Star Mom” throughout World Struggle II (by M. Raymond Alvarez); and the Berkeley Springs’ Star Theatre — run for greater than 40 years by Jeanne Mozier and her husband, Jack Soronen (by Carl Feather).
