Volume 45, Number 4

On the cover: West Virginia’s Troubadour Mike Morningstar. 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 |
Winter 2019
- 2 From the Editor
- 3 Letters from Readers
- 6 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes
- 10 New Legends & Lore: Roadside Markers
- Commemorate the Alderson Lion, John Henry,
Johnnie Johnson, and Pepperoni Rolls
By Emily Hilliard
- 12 Mike Morningstar: West Virginia’s
- Troubadour
By Charlotte Whipkey
- 20 “West Virginia Girl”
- By Mike Morningstar
- 21 War and Pandemic: Nursing Becomes
- a Profession
By Cynthia Mullens
- 26 Shanghai: Winter Revels in West Virginia
- By Gerald Milnes
- 32 Clay in My Blood
- By Jeff Diehl
- 39 Gram’s Kitchen
- By Laurel Muhly-Alexander
- 40 Our Forgotten Civil War:
- Ritchie County’s School Crisis
By Phillip L. Crane
- 46 Crane Custom Baits
- By Dave Villers
- 52 Making Crane Baits
- By Dave Villers
- 54 One Man’s Treasure: Dr. Elmer
- Myers and a Blue Plastic File Box
By Barbara Smith
- 58 “Ask for more than you’ll
- settle for”: The Strip-Mining Fight
By Michael Evans Snyder
- 64 Mike Snyder: Self-Proclaimed Contrarian
- By Tom Rice
- 66 Strip Mining: Where Are We Headed
- By Michael Evans Snyder
- 68 “Mountaineers Are Always Free”
- By Mike Morningstar
- 70 Mountain Music Roundup
- By Paul Gartner
- 76 West Virginia Back Roads: Last Surviving
- Tuskegee Airman Clifton E. Brooks Sr.: West Virginia’s
Last Surviving Tuskegee Airman
By Mike Morningstar
- Return to Goldenseal
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