Item Type : Magazine Single Issue
Publisher : West Virginia Division of Culture and History
Date Published : WINTER 2025
Description:The winter 2024 issue of GOLDENSEAL features a cover story from contributing author
Becky Hill all about the Swiss tradition of Fasnacht in the Randolph County community of
Helvetia. Our cover photo comes from photographer Pat Jarrett. This issue also contains our
last three then-and-now features which bring a close to our special 50th anniversary issues. The
cover story is one of those features with a reprint of “Goodbye, Old Man Winter: Helvetia
Celebrates Fasnacht” by Peggy Ross from spring of 1993, followed by our cover story. Also
featured is a reprinted article from Fall of 1989 on banjo maker and woodworker, Jenes Cottrell
of Clay County written by W. Murray Smith. This is followed with an interview with banjo maker
Christopher Dean, originally from Morgan County on his journey to learn more about Jenes and
his style of building, which has inspired his own work. Our last feature is a reprint of “Stories in
Wood and Metal: Marshall Flemings’s Little Hidden Valley”by Woodward S. Bousquet from
Winter of 1992. This is followed by one of our student articles written by 8th Grader Daniel
Linton about his great-grandfather; Marshall Fleming.
Also in the winter issue: An article on Beckley’s own Jerry Rose from contributing author
Lisa Shrewberry; a look at a few of our past cover photos from Steve Brightwell, staff
photographer for GOLDENSEAL; a tribute to country music singer Glen Cain by contributing
author Don Coleman; contributing author Edwina Pendarvis shares an article on Matewan’s
Mayor the late Johnny Wesley Fullen; a poem on Pruntytown from contributing author Laura
Treacy Bentley; a look at the work of the McDonald Sisters of Gilmer County from contributing
author Susan L. Feller featuring some great photos from the Robert F. Kidd Library Archives at
Glenville State University; several book reviews of recently published West Virginia &
Appalachia related books; a story from the late Nancy Rhodes, “Memories From a Child of the
Mountains, Wyoming County, WV”; and lastly another West Virginia Back Roads from our
regular contributing author Carl Feather, “A Slippery Tradition” all about the Lenox Oyster Stew
of Preston County.
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