Volume 41, Number 2
        
      On the Cover:  Drivers and mules in a mine at Gary, McDowell County, in 1908. Photograph by Lewis Hine, courtesy of the Library of Congress. 
 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 2015
      
        - 2 From the Editor
   
        - 6 Current Programs • Events • Publications
          
        
  
     
          
        - 9 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes
 
        - 10 From Candles to Carbide: 
 
        - Early Mine Lighting in West Virginia
 
        By Jim Lackey 
         
        - 18 WVU's Watts Museum
 
        - By Sharon E. Kelly
 
          - 20 H.B. Huffman Coal Company
 
           - By Lynette Swiger
 
       
          - 26 Tee Time in the Mountain State: 
 
          - West Virginia's Golf History
 
          By Bob Barnett
          
         - 34 Farmerettes in the Field: 
 
           - The Women's Land Army at Media Farm
 
           By Patricia Wilkins 
        - 40 World War II West Virginia Land Girls
 
           - By Patricia Wilkins
 
         
         - 42 Summers on My Grandfather's Farm
            
           - By Sid Underwood
 
       
          - 48 A Blackberry Day
 
          - By Jack Furbee
 
        - 52 Buy, Sell, Trade, or Give Away: 
 
           - WHAW's Swap Shop
 
           By John Lilly 
          - 58 Lisa Elmaleh and the Modern Art of Tintype
 
          - By John Lilly
 
          
          - 66 West Virginia Back Roads
 
          - No Gas in Monongah
 
          By Carl E. Feather 
          
          - 68 New Books Available
 
          - Return to Goldenseal
 
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