Volume 43, Number 4

On the cover: Recovery crews hoist the wreckage of the Silver Bridge from the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, December 1967. Courtesy of the Point Pleasant River Museum & Learning Center.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Jim Justice, Governor

Gayle C. Manchin, Secretary
Office of Education and the Arts

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

Stan Bumgardner, Editor

Kim Johnson,
Editorial Assistant

Jacob Hall Design
Publication Design

Winter 2017

2 From the Editor

3 My Mountain Mama: 1967-1978

By Crystal Good

4 Letters from Readers

7 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

6 Woodworker Charles Steven Adams

By Emily Hilliard

8 The Silver Bridge Disaster

By Stan Bumgardner

18 Point Pleasant

20 Jimmy Joe Wedge: Memories of the

Silver Bridge Disaster
By Stan Bumgardner

24 The Resilience of West Virginians

By Karin Fuller

26 Point Pleasant: A Photo Essay

By Steve Brightwell

36 The Revenooers: Enforcing Prohibition

In West Virginia
By Merle T. Cole

46 Bill Browning

By Paul Gartner

55 "Dark Hollow"

By Eric Thompson

56 The Case of the Traveling Dress

By Phyllis Marks

58 Dira Stout Sr.: Steam Locomotive Prodigy

By Alan Byer

64 Steam Locomotives in the West Virginia Woods

By Alan Byer

68 The Swecks' Circle Tour

By Borgon Tanner

74 Mountain Music Roundup

By Paul Gartner

78 West Virginia Back Roads

A Dentist at the Pinnacle
By Carl E. Feather

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