Volume 44, Number 1
        
      On the cover: Frank George, ca. 1970. Photographer unknown, courtesy of Kim Johnson. 
 Published by the 
        STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
        Jim Justice, Governor 
       Gayle C. Manchin, Secretary 
Office of Education and the Arts 
       Randall Reid-Smith, Commissioner 
        Department of Arts, Culture and History
        Stan Bumgardner, Editor 
       Kim Johnson,  
        Editorial Assistant 
       Jacob Hall Design 
      Publication Design  | 
     Spring 2018
      
        - 2 From the Editor
   
        
        - 4	GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes
 
        - 6	76 Years Later. . .A Purple Heart
  
        	- By Patricia Richards McClure
 
        
        - 7	The Miracle of Hominy Falls
 
        	- By Stan Bumgardner
 
     
        - 8	A Visit with Frank and Jane George
 
       - By Emily Hilliard
 
           
          - 10	William Franklin George (1928-2017)
 
          - By Kim Johnson
 
                   
        - 13	Frank George: In His Own Words
 
        - 21	Tributes to Frank George
 
          
         - 34	Willow Island 40 Years Later
  
         - A Lingering Cloud
 
         By Carl E Feather 
          
        - 44	Going in the Hole with Hogs
 
       - By Clarence "Junior" Knotts
 
          - 48	"From cattle to cats"
 
         - Rural Veterinarians
 
         By Barbara Smith 
 
          - 54	Rocky Cornfields, a Watch, Confederate
 
       -  Money, and a Couple of Millstones
 
       By James C. Clark 
          - 57	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Charleston
 
       - By Stan Bumgardner
 
          
         - 60	"Mary, come home!" My Trip Back 
 
         - to Wenonah
 
        By Mary Catherine Bones 
       
         - 64	The Daffodils Will Remember
 
         - By Deb Austin Brown
 
       
         - 66	The Penicillin Kids and an Improbable 
 
         - Basketball Title
 
         By Dan Kincaid 
         
          - 72	2017 Vandalia Award Recipient Jim Good
 
         - By Adam Booth
 
       
         - 76	2017 Vandalia Winners
 
       
         - 78	2017 Vandalia Liars Contest
 
         
		- 80	West Virginia Back Roads:
 
         - A Monument to the Victims
 
         By Carl E. Feather 
       
          - Return to Goldenseal
 
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