Volume 34, Number 3

On the cover: Carl Yokum emerges from a rental teepee at Yokum’s Vacationland, located at Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County. Photograph by Carl E. Feather. Our story begins on page 10.

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

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

A.C. Designs
Publication Design

Fall 2008

2 Letters from Readers

6 Current Programs * Events * Publications

9 Goldenseal Good-Byes

10 Yokum’s Vacationland
Carving Out a Big Life at Seneca Rocks

By Carl. E. Feather

18 Selling Side-by-Side at Seneca Rocks

By Carl E. Feather

24 Berdines
A Visit to Ritchie County’s Old-Time 5 & Dime

By Maureen Crockett

30 Bow Making in West Virginia

By Nathaniel Simons

34 Chesney’s Totem Pole
Tribute to a Fairmont Landmark

By Raymond Alvarez

40 A Life Well Spent
“Doc” Pete of Parsons

By Tom Felton

46 Respecting Miss Skaggs

By Bert W. Hudson

48 On Hallowed Ground
Jimmie McGrady and Beckley’s American Legion Cemetery

By Pauline Haga

53 Lillybrook
The Memories Never Die

By Hucie Maxey

58 Marching to Glory
Bluefield’s American Legion Junior Drum & Bugle Corps

By Stuart McGehee

64 West Virginia Back Roads
Pressing Cider in Preston County

By Carl E. Feather

66 The Art of Pressing Apples

Photoessay by Carl E. Feather

68 Films on West Virginia and Appalachia

By Steve Fesenmaier

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