Volume 28, Number 2

The Princess Margy sternwheeler on the Great Kanawha River near Dunbar. Photograph by Michael Keller.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Bob Wise, Governor

Department of Arts, Culture and History
Nancy Herholdt, Commissioner

John Lilly, Editor

Kathy Hughes
Assistant Editor

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

A.C. Designs
Publication Design

Summer 2002

2 Letters from Readers

5 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

6 Current Programs*Events*Publications

10 Captain Pete Grassie and the Princess Margy

By Lisa Blake

16 My First Boat

By Charles M. Morrison, Sr.

18 Fidler's Mill

Rediscovering an Upshur County Landmark

By Jeffrey Harper

24 Diving Into History

Pools of the Northern Panhandle

By Katherine M. Jourdan

30 Hollidays Cove Murder Mysetry

By Mary Zwierzchowski

38 Life on the Road

Selling Hardware for Kane & Keyser

By Sharon Wilmoth Harsh

44 Back to the Future

Huntington's Heritage Farm Museum

By Jeanie Prince

50 A Home in Cassity

By Shirley Gower

56 Jake Currence of Cassity

Interview by Shirley Gower

58 Sweet Harmony in Pennsboro

By Torie Knight

64 Sandpaper

By Charles W. Caldwell

67 New Books Available

By Gordon Simmons