CHARLESTON – The Spring 2022 concern of GOLDENSEAL is now obtainable. Since 1975, GOLDENSEAL has been West Virginia’s Journal of Conventional Life. Hooked up is a listing of shops the place GOLDENSEAL journal is out there.
A lot of this concern 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 us again to the timber ghost city of Spruce; Jennifer Mihal visits the historic Sharp’s Nation Retailer at Slaty Fork; and Kristen Bailey appears 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There are poems by her household’s matriarch, Virginia Clark Burner, and by poet Kirk Judd, in addition to a beforehand unpublished story by former state Poet Laureate Louise McNeill. This concern additionally features 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, often known as “The Wheeling Cat.” Sweet Thompson profiles Howard Teets of Rowlesburg, Preston County; Tom Zielinsky particulars Zalia, a now-abandoned brick-making group in Hancock County; Merle T. Cole appears on the historical past of Particular Forces stationed in Beckley; Sherry Hill remembers former West Virginia State School (now College) Professor Zeona Haley, the stepmother of Roots writer Alex Haley; and the Rev. O. Richard Bowyer remembers his time serving on the state Board of Drugs.
This concern additionally appears 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 printed quarterly by the West Virginia Division of Arts, Tradition and Historical past. The journal might be ordered by visiting GOLDENSEAL’s on-line retailer at https://bit.ly/37SeFdi or calling 304-558-0220, ext. 134. Particular person copies are $5.95/concern + $1.00 transport, or you’ll be able to order subscriptions for one yr ($20), two years ($36), or three years ($50).
GOLDENSEAL Journal might be bought on the following shops:
Brushy Ridge Farm, Augusta, Hampshire County
4 Seasons Books, Shepherdstown, Jefferson County
State Museum Present Store, Tradition Middle, Charleston, Kanawha County
Taylor Books, Charleston, Kanawha County
West Virginia Market at Capitol Market, Charleston, Kanawha County
Appalachian Glass, Weston, Lewis County
Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complicated, Moundsville, Marshall County
Railroad Depot, Bramwell, Mercer County
E book Change, Morgantown, Monongalia County
Ruby Memorial Hospital Present Store, Morgantown, Monongalia County
The Monroe Watchman Newspaper, Monroe County
Cacapon Resort State Park, Morgan County
Nicholas Chronicle Newspaper, Summersville, Nicholas County
West Virginia Independence Corridor, Wheeling, Ohio County
Wheeling Artisan Middle, Wheeling, Ohio County
Galaxy Meals, St. Marys, Pleasants County
Tamarack: The Better of West Virginia, Raleigh County
Pipestem Resort State Park, Summers/Mercer County
Tygart Lake State Park, Taylor County
Blackwater Falls State Park, Tucker County
Galaxy Meals, Middlebourne, Tyler County
Peoples Information, Parkersburg, Wooden County
Twin Falls State Park, Wyoming County
