Volume 30, Number 2

On the cover: Author Dan B. Fleming, Jr., on his last day at the New York World’s Fair on August 30, 1940, in the fair’s West Virginia building. Our story begins on page 10. Photographer unknown; coloration 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

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

A.C. Designs
Publication Design

Summer 2004

2 Letters from Readers
6 Current Programs*Events*Publications
8 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

10 A West Virginia Boy at the New York World’s Fair

By Dan B. Fleming, Jr.

18 West Virginia’s Three State Songs

By Richard Ramella

24 State of Music

Songs of Hills and Home
By Richard Ramella

29 When “Country Roads” Began

Genesis of a Mountain State Favorite
By Richard Ramells

30 “Salt Pork, West Virginia”

A Musical Mystery Solved
By Bill Archer and Richard Ramella

32 “West Virginia, My Home”

A Visit With Hazel Dickens
Interview by John Lilly

3x Listen to the Music

By Richard Ramella

38 Guy Kelley

The Beekeeper of Bloomingrose
By Kathy O. Smith Hundley

43 Beekeeping in West Virginia

46 Fishing in Berwind

By John Burnett

50 A City Preacher Comes to Pendleton County

By Lawton W. Posey

55 A Miracle at Fall Run Church

By Roscoe Plumley

56 “Across the Ocean in Philadelphia”

My Early Years in Mineral County
By Betty Bowers Snyder

62 Oakhurst Links

Golfing the Old-Time Way
By David Cottrill

66 Mountain State Miniature Golf

Almost Heaven in 18 Holes
Photoessay by Michael Keller

68 West Virginia Back Roads

A Plate from Every State
License Plate Forest in Pleasant Valley
By Carl E. Feather

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