Volume 43, Number 3

On the cover: Students celebrate 150 years of WVU in front of Woodburn Hall, Morgantown. Courtesy of Kelly Heasley, WVU University Relations and WVU Student Life.

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

Fall 2017

2 From the Editor

4 Letters from Readers & Corrections

7 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

8 Wanted: Master Traditional Artists &

Apprentices
By Emily Hilliard

10 WVU: The First 50 of 150

By Christine M. Kreiser

22 The Med School Sideshow

By Christine M. Kreiser

26 WVU Tidbits

30 Bill Gillespie: Forester, Naturalist, Fossil

Expert
By Sheila McEntee

42 40 Years of Sawmilling

By Steve Dye

50 Monumental Miniatures:

Kanawha Riverboat Replicas
By Todd A. Hanson

58 Bunner Ridge:

Life Beyond the Paved Road
By William Kent Hudgins

64 One-Room School Days

By Donna Brown Brewster

68 Ralph Lemley:

Resourceful Caretaker and "Best Pap Pap"
By Barb Howe

76 2017 Books on Appalachia

By Stan Bumgardner

78 West Virginia Back Roads:

Highland Springs: A Compassionate Farm
By Carl E. Feather

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