FAIRMONT — Many Fairmont residents know Rev. Richard “Dick” Bowyer for serving as campus minister on the Wesley Basis for Fairmont State College.
Nevertheless, readers can discover out a not so well-known chapter in Bowyer’s life by choosing up the spring 2022 difficulty of “Goldenseal Journal,” during which Bowyer revealed a narrative about his time serving on the state board of medication.
Whereas a lot of the spring difficulty is devoted to Pocahontas County, which is celebrating its bicentennial.
Three West Virginia College Public Historical past college students contributed to the journal. Elizabeth Satterfield takes readers again to the timber ghost city of Spruce, Jennifer Mihal visits the historic Sharp’s Nation Retailer at Slaty Fork and Kristen Bailey seems to be at timber-related folks songs.
As well as, Louise Burner writes about her ancestral dwelling at Cass, which is now a museum and artwork gallery. There are poems by her household’s matriarch, Virginia Clark Burner, and by poet Kirk Judd, in addition to a beforehand unpublished story by former state Poet Laureate Louise McNeill. The brand new difficulty additionally a photograph unfold about Marlinton’s Pioneer Days celebration within the Seventies, and Carl E. Feather visits with Invoice Younger, who preserves previous apple varieties in Frost, W.Va.
Along with the tales of Pocahontas County, Ivan M. Tribe and Jake Bapst look at the lengthy nation music profession of Slim Lehart, generally known as “The Wheeling Cat.” Sweet Thompson profiles Howard Teets of Rowlesburg, Preston County, Tom Zielinsky particulars Zalia, a now-abandoned brick-making neighborhood in Hancock County, Merle T. Cole seems to be on the historical past of Particular Forces stationed in Beckley and Sherry Hill remembers former West Virginia State Faculty (now College) Professor Zeona Haley, the stepmother of Roots creator Alex Haley.
This difficulty additionally seems to be again on the 2020 and 2021 Vandalia Award recipients and the 2021 award-winning quilts and wall hangings, sponsored by the State Museum. Lastly, Sara Bragg Aikin writes in regards to the Veterans Memorial Museum of Southern West Virginia in Hinton, Summers County.
Goldenseal is revealed quarterly by the West Virginia Division of Arts, Tradition and Historical past. The journal could be ordered on-line at https://bit.ly/37SeFdi or calling 304-558-0220, extension 134. Particular person copies are $5.95 a problem plus $1 delivery, or $20 a yr for a one-year subscription, $36 for a two-year and $50 for a three-year subscription.
Regionally, Goldenseal Journal could be bought on the E book Trade in Morgantown and the J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital Reward Store in Morgantown.
