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Volume 47, Number 1

cover photo
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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