Volume 46, Number 1

On the cover: Matewan Depot, courtesy of the Eastern Regional Coal Archives at the Norfolk and Western Historical Photograph Collection, Norfolk Southern Archives, Virginia—Virginia Tech Special Collections, Blacksburg, Va.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Jim Justice, Governor

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

Stan Bumgardner, Editor

Joseph Aluise, Assistant Editor

Jacob Hall Design
Publication Design

Spring 2020

2 From the Editor

3 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

6 Having a Chicken Blast at Weirton’s

Serbian Picnic Grounds
By Emily Hilliard

8 1920 Advice to Graduates

By Ellen Lambert

10 “A terrible calamity”: The Massacre

at Matewan
By Aaron Parsons

19 The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency

By Aaron Parsons

24 Who Fired First?

By Doug Estepp

30 The Lively Letter

By Doug Estepp

32 The Lively Letter Backstory

By Ken Sullivan

33 “Her hour of need”: Jessie Maynard

By Randy Marcum

38 A Tale of Two Matewans

By Stan Bumgardner

48 Matewan: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

By Kenzie New

52 2019 Vandalia Contest Winner

54 2019 Vandalia Liars Contest

56 2019 Vandalia Award Recipient:

Dwight Diller
By Kim Johnson

58 Kirk Judd: West Virginia’s

Spoken-Word Poet
By Dan Kincaid

63 Communion: Barred Owls Under

Bishop’s Knob
By Kirk Judd

64 Shinnston Plumbing: A 120-Year-Old

Family-Owned Business
By Edwin Daryl Michael

70 May Show Maddox: Fairmont’s Gold

Star Mother
By M. Raymond Alvarez

74 West Virginia Back Roads: Berkeley

Springs’ Brightest Star
By Carl E. Feather

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