Volume 24, Number 1
    
Bil Lepp and the infamous Buck-dog aboard a train engine. This
champion liar and his dog are included in a GOLDENSEAL Special
Report on Storytelling in West Virginia beginning on page 9. 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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Spring 1998
  
  
- Goldenseal Folklife Fairs and
Festivals list
 
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- 2 From the Editor: Tribute to Paul
Lepp
 
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- 3 Letters from Readers
 
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- 6 Current Programs, Events,
Publications
 
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- 10 Tell It On the Mountain:
 
- A Storytelling Festival at Jackson's Mill
 
- By Mary Rodd Furbee
 
- 14 The Lying Lepp Brothers
 
- By Bil Lepp
 
- 20 1997 Liars
Contest
 
- 22 Johnnie Hill
 
- Maureen Crockett
 
- 24 Mary Carter Smith
 
- By Mary Rodd Furbee
 
- 26 Sparky Burr
 
- By Brenda Lloyd and Bob Whitcomb
 
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- 28 Ohio River Voices:
 
- Echoes of the Army Corps
 
- By Carrie Nobel Kline
 
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- 36 Before the 18-Wheelers
 
- By Paul Moss
 
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- 38 Tales from the Irish Tract
 
- By Basil Hurley
 
- 46 My Childhood on Irish Mountain
 
- By Marie Twohig Sadlowski
 
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- 50 The Barns of Pendleton County
 
- By Gerald Milnes
 
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- 56 "Living the Right Life Now":
 
- Lynn Davis & Molly O'Day
 
- By Abby Gail Goodnite and Ivan M. Tribe
 
- 64 Remembering Molly O'Day
 
- By Dave Peyton
 
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- 65 The Best Curb Girl in Logan
County
 
- By Brenda West
 
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- 68 Getting Started on Spring:
 
- Grandfather's Garden
 
- By Barbara A. Angle
 
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- 70 Films on
West Virginia and Appalachia
 
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- 72 22nd Vandalia Gathering
 
 
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