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Volume 36, Number 1

Spring 2010 cover
On the cover: Pilot and author Steve Weaver at the Upshur County Regional Airport. Photograph by Michael Keller. Our story begins on page 20.

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

Spring 2010

3 Letters from Readers
5 Current Programs • Events • Publications
7 GOLDENSEAL Good-Bye
8 Phyllis and Carl Guthrie: A Wartime Romance
By Kate Long
14 U.S. Naval Ordnance Plant
A Brief History
16 South Charleston During World War II
By Helen Byrnside Williams
20 The Runaway Airplane!
By Steve Weaver
28 Living Through the Great Depression
By John Cooper
34 Danger in the Hole
1958 Mine Rescue Team
By Janet Estep
40 Into the Woods with Ely-Thomas
One Day’s Drama at Jetsville
By Borgon Tanner
50 “Just a Little Bit of History”
Finding the Fairfax Stone
By Carl E. Feather
56 Building Blackwater
A Visit with Daniel “Boone” Pase
By Carl E. Feather
62 West Virginia Back Roads
Ramp Sunday at Mount Grove
By Carl E. Feather
64 2009 Liars Contest
 
68 Vandalia Time!

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