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Volume 45, Number 3


On the cover: A statue of Francis Pierpont, often called the “Father of West Virginia,” stands watch at West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling. Photo by Steve Brightwell.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Jim Justice, Governor

Randall Reid-Smith, Curator
Department of Arts, Culture and History

Stan Bumgardner, Editor

Joseph Aluise, Assistant Editor

Jacob Hall Design
Publication Design

Fall 2019

2 From the Editor
4 Carol Dougherty of Our Lady of Lebanon
By Emily Hilliard
6 That Wheeling Feeling!
By Rebekah Karelis
16 Wheeling’s 20th Man: Race Relations in the
Northernmost Southern City
By Seán P. Duffy (for Ann Thomas)
30 Our State’s Birthplace: West Virginia
Independence Hall
By Sue-Beth Warren
35 Beverly Fluty (1931 – 2009)
By Stan Bumgardner
38 West Virginia Independence Hall Today
Photos by Steve Brightwell
40 Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy
By Stan Bumgardner
46 Sister Joanne Gonter, VHM: A Life in
Three Centuries
By Barb Howe
50 Out and About in Wheeling
Photos by Steve Brightwell
55 Food Heritage in Wheeling
By Stan Bumgardner
56 Dr. Roy and Mary Ellen Harmon Jr.:
“A very rewarding life”
By Carl E. Feather
62 “Wheeling to Wheeling”
By Dave Harmon
64 Living the American Dream at
Wheeling-Pitt
By Mark Swiger
70 Wheeling and Music and Me
By Mollie O’Brien
74 West Virginia Back Roads: “It’s all about
partnerships”: Preserving Historic Wheeling
By Carl E. Feather
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