Volume 27, Number 3

Watercolor painting of Magnum Bonum apple from Sinks Grove, Monroe County, by Deborah G. Passmore, circa 1895; photograph by Jerry Markatos. Background photograph by Carl E. Feather.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Bob Wise, Governor

Department of Arts, Culture and History
Nancy Herholdt, Commissioner

John Lilly, Editor

Kathy Hughes
Assistant Editor

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

Anne H. Crozier
Publication Design

Fall 2001

2 Letters From Readers

6 Apple Royalty

Berkeley County's Miller Family

By Carl E. Feather

14 Heirloom Apples

By Carl E. Feather

19 A Fence Full of Apples

Espalier in Sistersville

By Carl E. Feather

22 Obert Parsons

Boone County's Apple Expert

By Patricia Black Lafferty

26 Apple Butter Time

By Helen Bradfield Shambaugh

30 Bill Wintz

Nitro's Grassroots Historian

Interview by Richard Andre

36 Norton House

Malden's Best-Kept Secret

By Sarah Dempsey

40 Visiting Historic Malden

By Colleen Anderson

42 Jim Costa

West Virginia Renaissance Man

By Belinda Anderson

47 Pioneer Tools

50 Making Judge Robinson's Death Mask

By Richard Crawford

53 Philippi's Adaland Mansion

56 "Preserved Until Judgement Day"

The Philippi Mummies

By Barbara Smith

60 Harper's Ferry Ghost Walk

By Carl E. Feather

66 Current Programs, Events, Publications