Volume 23, Number 3
Woody Mace of Point Pleasant, a volunteer at the State Farm Museum,
demonstrates at the museums's recent Pioneer Days and Wheat
Harvest. Harvesting with a grain cradle is hard work, but it was
the only way to get the job done before the advent of
mechanization. See story on page 49. Photo by Michael Keller
Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Cecil H. Underwood, Governor
Department of Arts, Culture and History
Renay Conlin, Commissioner
John Lilly, Editor
Debby Sonis Jackson
Assistant Editor
Cornelia Crews Alexander
Editorial Assistant
Anne H. Crozier
Graphic Design
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Fall 1997
- 1 Editorial
- 2 Letters from Readers
- 6 Current Programs, Events,
Publications
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- 10 Clark Kessinger: Pure Fiddling
- By Charles Wolfe
- 18 I Remember Clark Kessinger
- By Bobby Taylor
- 20 The Kessinger Family
- By Paul Gartner
- 24 Kessingers on Record
- By Danny Williams
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- 28 Manheim
- Faded Glory in a Quarry Town
- By Peggy Ross
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- 36 "You Name It, and I Done It"
- A Visit with Agnes Runner Nestor
- By Melissa Ireland
- 44 Lost Towns of Northern West
Virginia
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- 45 Preston County Buckwheat
Festival
- By Peggy Ross
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- 49 Harvesting and
Threshing the Grain
- Working for Our Daily Bread
- By Gene Bailey
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- 58 The Pickens Leper
- By L. Wayne Sheets
- 62 Biblical Treatment of an American
Leper
- By William E. Phipps
- 63 Leprosy: A Medical perspective
- By Mark Gunther, MD
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- 65 Mountain Music Roundup
- By Danny Williams
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- 68 West Virginia Gift Ideas
- New Books and Videos Available
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- 70 Ghost in the Church
- By Ruth Zickafoose
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