Volume 39, Number 2

On the cover: Civil War reenactors fire a cannon at Hurricane, Putnam County, in 2010. Photograph by Tyler Evert. Our story begins on page 10.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Earl Ray Tomblin, 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

Karin Kercheval Design
Publication Design

Summer 2013

2 Letters from Readers

5 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

6 Current Programs Events Publications

10 Reliving History

Memories of a Civil War Reenactor
By Michael Sheets

18 Hidden in Plain Sight

Marion County’s Civil War-Era Landmarks
By Shannon Colaianni Tinnell

24 Francis H. Pierpont

Father of West Virginia
By Shannon Colaianni Tinnell

26 Recalling the Centennial

West Virginia at 100
By John Lilly

38 Mountain State Art & Craft Fair

Variety and Tradition at Cedar Lakes
By Nancy Merical

44 Huntington, the Way We Were

The Hometown Photographs of Levi Holley Stone
By John Witek

52 Puttin’ Up Hay in Doddridge County

By Duane Ellifritt

58 “Almost Mushroom Heaven”

Finding Fungi in the Mountain State
By Carl E. Feather

64 Pat Jordan

Mushroom Hunter
By Gerald Milnes

66 Italian Mushroom Magic

By John Lilly

68 West Virginia Back Roads

Old School Bookstore in Pocahontas County
By Carl E. Feather

70 Remembering Filmmaker Bob Gates

By Steve Fesenmaier

 

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