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Volume 46, Number 2


On the cover: John F. Kennedy campaigns at our state capitol, April 11, 1960. Photo by Frank Wilkin, Charleston Gazette, courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Frank Wilkin Collection.

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

Summer 2020

2 From the Editor
6 Hope is a black-winged bird
By Erin Beck
7 Remembrances
By Stan Bumgardner
8 West Virginia Folklife Program:
2020-2021 Master Artists & Apprentices
By Emily Hilliard
10 The 1960 Democratic Primary
By Stan Bumgardner
12 The Day JFK Spoke Like a West Virginian
By Tim Reese
18 An Unexpected Upset:
The Humphrey Campaign
By Aaron Parsons
24 1960 Primary Scrapbook
28 The Enigmatic Relationship of
Mary Barnes and Sam Cabell
By David M. Fryson
34 Memories of Farris
By Barbara Burton Grigg
40 Celebrating the 4th of July 1965 . . .
on the 2nd & 5th
By Mike Ruben
44 “Working—and playing”: An Oral History
By Philmore Kelley (interview by Margo Blevin Denton)
51 Hinkle Mountain Road
By Ivan Norton Hunter
52 “55 acres more or less”
By James Pryor
56 A Mountaintop Wedding
By Les Peters
58 Desegregation in Summers County
By Ed Garten
64 The Mingo County Flood of 1977
By Robert Beanblossom
70 The Farm Family
By JoAnn Gilardi
74 West Virginia Back Roads:
DePollo Connections Come Full Circle
By Carl E. Feather
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