Volume 47, Number 1

On the cover: Gospel and soul singer Lady D (Doris A. Fields). You can read her article about the roots of Black gospel and blues on p. 12. Photo by Brad Davis for The Register-Herald.

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 2021

2 From the Editor

3 GOLDENSEAL Good-Bye: Chuck Yeager

By Michael Evans Snyder

5 Taking Root: A Seasoned Writer’s Beginnings

By Kathleen M. Jacobs

8 Expanding Horizons: The Appalachian

Children’s Chorus
By Audrey Pitonak-Goff

12 Black Gospel & Blues: The Roots of American

Music
By Doris A. Fields

22 “People start looking at people for who they

are”: W. I. “Bill” Hairston on the Power of Stories
By Emily Hilliard

28 Farm Family Photos

By Edwin Daryl Michael

36 The Community Coal Mine

By Lawrence “Larry” Cabell

40 Greasy Neale: A Man for All Seasons

By Bob Barnett

45 GOLDENSEAL Good-Bye:

Robert “Bob” Barnett

46 Bill Kelley: Historian behind the Camera

By Aaron Parsons

54 The Day the Comic Books Burned

By Ben Calwell

58 The Birth of MAW: A Magazine of

Appalachian Women
By Miriam Ralston

62 Ruggles Orchard

By Nancy S. Hoffman

66 WAVES Jessie Lucke and Isabel Lobb Jones:

West Virginians by Birth and Choice
By Barb Howe

72 WAVES in World War II: Washington, D.C.

By Barb Howe

74 Ernestine Hess Davey: An Unsung

Hometown Hero
By Sara Bragg Aikin

78 The End of Cinder Bottom

By Jeffrey Shade

84 West Virginia Back Roads: Full Circle,

Full Service in Lenox
By Carl E. Feather

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