Volume 36, Number 2

On the cover: “Tweety,” a banty rooster in Calhoun County, belongs to Tim McCumbers. Photograph by Kim Johnson; our story about chickens starts on page 18.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Joe Manchin III, Governor

Kay Goodwin, Secretary
Department of Arts, Culture and History

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

John Lilly, Editor

Kim Johnson,
Editorial Assistant

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

A.C. Designs
Publication Design

Summer 2010

2 Letters from Readers

4 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

8 Current Programs • Events • Publications

10 Visiting the Balli Sisters of Helvetia

By Alan Byer

18 I Remember Chickens

By Charles M. Morrison, Sr.

24 A Horse Called Fred

By Hobart Everson

26 Rise and Fall of the Newell Park Zoo

By Bob Barnett

34 We Lived Along the Railroad Tracks

My Early Years in Mingo County
By Willard Mounts

37 The Vulcan Bridge

39 Grandma's First TV Show

By Phoebe Whittaker

40 On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers

By By Bill Archer

47 A Haven of Rest

Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children

By Bonnie G. Lewis

54 Harsh Reunion

“A Friendly Bunch of Customers”

By Carl E. Feather

60 “The Most Busiest Man in the County”

Tom Knotts of Fellowsville

By Carl E. Feather

66 West Virginia Back Roads

Motoring Memories in Kingwood

By Carl E. Feather

68 New Books Available

By Kim Johnson

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