Volume 31, Number 3

Retired miner Oreste Leombruno, with abandoned coke ovens near Douglas, Tucker County. Photograph by MIchael Keller. Our story begins on page 6.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Joe Manchin III, Governor

Kay Goodwin, Secretary
Department of Arts, Culture and History

Troy Body, Commissioner
Department of Arts, Culture and History

John Lilly, Editor

Gordon Simmons
Editorial Assistant

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

BlaineTurner Advertising, Inc.
Publication Design

Fall 2005

2 Letters from Readers

 

6 Follow the Coal

A Visit with Oreste Leombruno
By Maureen Crockett

14 Night of Raging Waters

Parsons and the 1985 Flood
By Jerry DiBacco

23 Saving Pauline

By Jerry DiBacco

24 Turkey Talk with Peck Martin

By Bruce Ingram

30 “I Never Dreamed I’d Be This Old”

Gilmer County’s Roxy Ellyson at 105
By Harriet Whipkey

36 My Life as a Mason County Educator

By George Curtis Musgrave

38 The Executioner’s Story

Bob Harness and the Moundsville Pen
By Carl E. Feather

44 Fall Victory

Huntington’s 1918 Flu Epidemic
By Joseph Platania

51 The Box It Came In

Saving the French Gratitude Train
By Richard Hartman

55 The Forty & Eight

By Richard Hartman

56 Pushing and Shoving a Model T

By W. Howard Reeder

58 Life in the Levi Shinn House

By Edwin Daryl Michael

66 West Virginia Back Roads

Echoes of the Flood at Harman
By Carl E. Feather

68 Current Programs*Events*Publications

71 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes