Volume 39, Number 1

On the cover: Interior of Glade Creek Grist Mill at Babcock State Park. Photograph by Sam McColloch. Our story begins on page 32.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Earl Ray Tomblin, Governor

Kay Goodwin, Secretary
Department of Arts, Culture and History

Randall Reid-Smith, Commissioner
Department of Arts, Culture and History

John Lilly, Editor

Kim Johnson,
Editorial Assistant

Karin Kercheval Design
Publication Design

Spring 2013

3 Letters from Readers

6 Current Programs ● Events ● Publications

8 The Buddy Starcher & Sleepy Jeffers Shows

Live Country Music on TV!
By Ivan M. Tribe

16 What's it Worth to You?

Pendleton County Auctioneer Garry Propst
By Carl E. Feather

22 An Old-Fashioned Auction

By Carl E. Feather

24 Holding Court

West Virginia's First Girls' High School Basketball Tournament
By Bob Barnett and Steven Cooper

32 Seeing in Black & White

Photographer Sam McColloch
By John Lilly

42 "To Live as One Like Brothers"

Remembering St. Joseph Seminary
By Roger Nedeff

48 Woodsdale Kids

Memories of a Wheeling Neighborhood
By Kate Quinn

54 Growing Up in a Hardware Store

By Wayne Basconi

58 West Virginia Back Roads

Irish Road Bowling in Wheeling
By Carl E. Feather

60 New Books Available

By John Lilly

64 2012 Liars Contest

67 Vandalia Time!

 

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