Volume 33, Number 2

On the cover: Dairy goats belonging to Mitzie Rival of Jackson County. Photograph by Michael Keller. Our story begins on page 32.

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

Gordon Simmons
Editorial Assistant

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

BlaineTurner Advertising, Inc.
Publication Design

Summer 2007

2 Letters from Readers

6 Current Programs*Events*Publications

9 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

10 Country Photographer Ferrell Friend

70 Years Behind the Camera
By Skip Johnson

18 Columnist Alyce Faye Bragg

Everybody’s Grandmother
By George David Begler

25 My Home

By Alyce Faye Bragg

26 How We Fed Ourselves Back Then

Eating Well in Barbour County
By Wayman A. Donegia

32 Tending the Herd in Jackson County

Mitzie Rival and her Goats
By Carolyn Harmon

38 “Worth Their Weight in Gold”

Recalling Red Jacket Safety Day
By Joe Plasky

46 Summers in the Brush

DOH Memories in Wetzel County
By Bob Masters

50 Soap Box Derby 1937

By Houghton Robson

52 Music on the Hill

The Cronin Family of Pleasants County
By Betty Leavengood

58 Mail Time in Glady

Calvin Shifflett and his Post Office
By Carl E. Feather

65 Peter Shaver’s Grave

By Carl E. Feather

66 West Virginia Back Roads

Being Different in Hepzibah
By Carl E. Feather

68 New Books Available

By Gordon Simmons

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