Late Upshur County sculptor featured as cover story in latest issue of GOLDENSEAL

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Spring 2019 difficulty of GOLDENSEAL is now accessible for buy at choose retailers and/or by calling the GOLDENSEAL workplace. GOLDENESEAL, West Virginia’s journal of conventional life since 1975, is printed quarterly by the West Virginia Division of Arts, Tradition and Historical past.

The quilt story honors the late wood-sculptor Wolfgang Flor of Rock Cave, Upshur County, who handed away in December 2017. Via interviews with Flor’s spouse, Maria, creator Randy Yohe tells the fascinating story of this German immigrant who was pressured from his hometown and made his technique to America following World Conflict II. Flor influenced generations of artists within the Mountain State.

His works are on exhibit on the West Virginia State Museum in Charleston and greater than a dozen schools and universities throughout the state.

The spring difficulty comprises extra articles than any version in GOLDENSEAL’s 44-year historical past.

Topics embrace Julian Martin’s humorous and touching recollections of rising up in Emmons, Boone County; the Ohio River flood of 1937 by James Juett; the Braxton County city of Orlando by Patsy A. Reckart; Mercer County sculptor Mike Sizemore by Jessica Lilly; reminiscences of the Large Ugly space of Lincoln County by 93-year-old Lenore McComas Coberly; West Virginia’s nice salt rising bread custom by Susan Ray Brown; the story of Earl Wilson Jr. of Ritchie County by Carole Jones; the Hancock County brick-making trade by Tom Zielinsky; Kanawha County educator Melanie Vickers’ expertise within the NASA Trainer in Area Undertaking; Wayne Basconi’s account of an unlikely state monitor and discipline championship by Oceana Excessive Faculty in 1973; Gary V. West hitting the gold mine of trout-fishing holes in Randolph County; and an replace on a lawsuit over the 1968 Farmington #9 Mine Catastrophe by Douglas Imbrogno.

As well as, the problem contains common options by state folklorist Emily Hilliard and Carl E. Feather.

Hilliard tells how the West Virginia Folklife Program has introduced collectively herbarist Marion Harless of Randolph County with apprentice Kara Vaneck of Lewis County. In his Again Roads column, Feather drops by Photo voltaic Mountain Data in Keyser, Mineral County.

The difficulty additionally seems again at contest winners from the 2018 Vandalia Gathering on the Capitol Advanced. It pays tribute to the 2018 Vandalia Award recipient, storyteller Bil Lepp of Kanawha County, and Lepp displays on the life and tales of his brother Paul.

The Lepp brothers gained 11 of the primary 16 Vandalia Liars Contests—West Virginia’s premier competitors for tall tales. The Vandalia Award is our state’s highest folklife honor.

To order the Spring difficulty, name the GOLDENSEAL workplace at (304) 558-0220. The fee is $5.95 plus transport or $20 for a one-year subscription (4 quarterly points).