Volume 34, Number 2

On the cover: Fenton Art Glass Company in Williamstown recently marked 100 years of producing beautiful handmade glass. Photograph by Michael Keller. Our story begins on page 8.

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

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

BlaineTurner Advertising, Inc.
Publication Design

Summer 2008

2 Letters from Readers

6 Current Programs * Events * Publications

8 Fenton

A Century of Art Glass in Williamstown
By Dean Six

14 Fenton

Handcrafted American Glass Artistry
Photoessay by Michael Keller

16 “The Best Thing I Ever Did”

Willa Norman and Fenton Glass
By Dean Six

18 Paul Whiteman Recalls Early Days in Bridgeport

By Richard S. Bailey

24 The Joy of Flying

Squire Haynes and the Rainelle International Airport
By Janet Estep

29 Pilot Jean Pickering

75 and Still Flying
By Betty Leavengood

34 Road Trip

An Eye-Opening Journey to Pocahontas County in 1947
By David H. Halsey

42 Organ Cave

A World Within a World
By Carl E. Feather

50 Shadows of the Past

Photoessay by Marty Olsen

58 Making Whiskey in Greenbrier County

By Ben Crookshanks

64 Making It Legal

A Visit to the Isaiah Morgan Distillery in Summersville
By John Lilly

66 West Virginia Back Roads

Character Farm in Morgan County
By Carl E. Feather

68 New Books Available

By Gordon Simmons

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