Volume 38, Number 3

On the cover: Giant Fairy Ming, six-color cameo glass vase by Kelsey Murphy and Bob Bomkamp of Studios of Heaven in East Lynn, Wayne County. Photograph by Tyler Evert. Our story begins on page 10.

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

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

Karin Kercheval Design
Publication Design

Fall 2012

2 Letters from Readers

6 Current Programs ● Events ● Publications

9 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

10 Visions of Heaven

Cameo Glass Artist Kelsey Murphy

By Donna Meredith

19 Museum of American Glass

20 Martha Manning

A Century of West Virginia Stained Glass
By Martha Caroline Coleman

26 Cracked Crucible

Photoessay by John Winter

36 Mountaineer Opry House

Milton's Home for Bluegrass Music
By Jim Gabehart

42 Putney

"Model" Coal Town in Kanawha County
By Todd A. Hanson

50 Memories of a Country Doctor

By E.R. Cooper, M.D.

56 Uphill, Both Ways

Stewart Sisters Went the Extra Mile for Education
By Jerry Grady

60 Remembrance, Reflection, and Honor

Rowlesburg's World War II Museum
By Carl E. Feather

66 West Virginia Back Roads

Military Memories in Weston
By Carl E. Feather

68 Tale of Two Dogs

By James Meade

69 My Friend Kirk

By Albert I. Pennington

 

 

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