Volume 25, Number 1

Fiddler Melvin Wine received the first Vandalia Award in 1981, and continues to be one of the Vandalia Gathering's most beloved performers. Our Vandalia coverage begins on page 63, and online viewers can learn about the Vandalia Gathering here. Photograph by Michael Keller, 1998.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Cecil H. Underwood, Governor

Department of Arts, Culture and History
Renay Conlin, Commissioner

John Lilly, Editor

Connie Karickhoff
Assistant Editor

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Editorial Assistant

Anne H. Crozier
Designer

Spring 1999

2 From the Editor

3 Letters from Readers

7 Current Programs, Events, Publications

 

10 Mother's Day Revisited: "But After All Was

She Not a Masterpiece as a Mother

and a Gentlewoman..."

By Marie Tyler-McGraw

16 Mother's Day Today

18 Wheeling's Irish Thread:

An O'Brien Family Tale

ByMargaret Brennan

 

26 The Milk Had to Get Through:

Home Delivery in Tucker County

By Carl E. Feather

 

32 Second to None:

Eighty Years of the West Virginia State Police

By Ben Crookshanks

38 A Boy's Dream

By C.C. Stewart

43 "All in a Day's Work":

Former State Trooper William R. Seal

Interview by Ben Crookshanks

46 West Virginia State Stores:

A Legacy of Prohibition

By Joseph Platania

48 "Lavoro e Casa":

Memories of an Italian Mining Family

By Jean Battlo

56 The Color of May

By Donna McGuire Tanner

 

58 Clingman's Market

By Belinda Anderson

63 Vandalia Time!

66 Liars Contest Winners

70 Back Issues