Volume 31, Number 2

A woman tends a garden at the Tygart Valley Homestead in Randolph County. Photograph 1939 by John Vachon, Farm Security Administration, courtesy of the Library of Congress. 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

Troy Body, Commissioner
Department of Arts, Culture and History

John Lilly, Editor

Gordon Simmons
Editorial Assistant

Cornelia Crews Alexander
Circulation Manager

A.C. Designs
Publication Design

Summer 2005

2 Letters from Readers

6 Current Programs*Events*Publications

9 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

10 Tygart Valley Homestead

New Deal Communities in Randolph County
By Kathy Roberts

18 The Homestead Movement in West Virginia

By Gordon Simmons

20 Eleanor Roosevelt in Print

22 Ties that Bind

The Hahn Brothers of Hardy County
By Catherine Moore

28 Rube Stump

Calhoun County's King of Swing
By Kim Johnson

34 Days at the Knights of Pythias

By Bob Masters

38 A Miner's Life

Clyde Lockard's Diary
By Duane Lockard

46 "The Best of Times by Far"

A Visit with Sue Dingess of MacDunn
Interview by Ericka Bain

50 MacDunn and the 1934 Train Explosion

52 Jones Mansion

The Checkered History of a McDowell County Landmark
By Jean Battlo

58 "Mayor" Ivan Gorby of Bowman Ridge

By Carl E. Feather

66 West Virginia Backroads

"Your Move"
Honor and Checkers in Matewan
By Carl E. Feather

68 New Books Available

By Gordon Simmons