Volume 36, Number 32

On the cover: U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd with his fiddle. Late 1970’s photograph by Blanton Owen. Our stories begin on page 10.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Joe Manchin III, Governor

Kay Goodwin, Secretary
Department of Education and the Arts

Randall Reid-Smith, Commissioner
Division of Culture and History

John Lilly, Editor

Kim Johnson,
Editorial Assistant

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

A.C. Designs
Publication Design

Fall 2010

2 Letters from Readers

7 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

8 Current Programs • Events • Publications

10 Remembering Robert C. Byrd

By John Lilly

12 Robert Byrd: Mountain Fiddler

By Dave Wilbur

18 Bobby on Byrd

20 “Soul of the Mountains”

A Visit with Fiddler Bobby Taylor
By Josh Gordon

24 Remembering Lincoln Taylor

Legacy of a Roane County Fiddler
By John Lilly

30 Revelation in the Mountains

West Virginia FSA Photographs
By Betty Rivard

40 William Holly Griffith

West Virginia Desperado
By H.R. Cogar

48 Huntington’s Memorial Arch

By Joseph Platania

52 A Wonderland of Books

Recalling Carnegie Library in Parkersburg

By Deborah McHenry Ross

54 Gardening and Gathering

A Visit with Wanda Tucker Jarrell of Winifrede

By Alisa Stapler

59 Ginseng

Digging for Treasure in Brooke County

By Ben Copenhaver

62 L.M. McNeil’s Store

By June C. Jones

64 Halloween at Mr. Mac’s Store

By Albert Pennington

66 West Virginia Back Roads

The Great Pumpkin of Preston County
By Carl E. Feather

68 2010 Films on West Virginia and Appalachia

By Steve Fesenmaier

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