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Volume 24, Number 4

Spring 1998 Goldenseal
Veterinarian "Doc" White and his bride Dana on their wedding day, September 20, 1914. Photograph by the Gissy Studio, Weston.

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

Winter 1998
2 Letters from Readers
6 Current Programs, Events, Publications

10 Country Vet Doc White
By Patricia Samples Workman

18 Death of a Gyspy King
By Jane Kraina and Mary Zwierzchowski
23 Gypsy, West Virginia
24 The World of the Gypsies
By Jane Kraina and Mary Zwierzchowski

28 The Roosevelt Outhouse
By Norman Julian

32 Glory Days for Grafton:
Building the Tygart Dam
By Barbara Smith
37A "Dam" Good Worker:
Dam Builder Ralph Poling
By Barbara Smith

44 Photographer William H. Jordan:
A Portrait of Ansted's Black Community
By Connie Karickhoff
49 Bringing African American History to Life

52 High Hopes at Colin Anderson Center
By Jennifer Efaw
 
59 Children's Home Society of West Virginia

62 Christmas in a One-Room School
By Joann Mazzio

64 Mountain Music Roundup
By Danny Williams
 
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