Volume 28, Number 4
On the cover: Dressed for the season, young Maxson B. Collins poses
on a sled in this studio portrait taken with his mother Ruby Jane
Maxson in about 1912. Mr. Collins, now 92, shares memories of
growing up in Berlin, Lewis County, beginning on page 29.
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
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Winter 2002
2 Letters from Readers
6 Current Programs * Events * Publications
- 10 "I'm the One Who
Stayed"
- Walter Taitt's 99 Years in Volcano
- By Betty Leavengood
- 16 "Just a Good, Clean Life"
- Ben Borda of Marion County
- Interview by Michael and Carrie Kline
- 22 Lebanese in the Land of
Opportunity
- The Michael Family of Clarksburg
- By Mary Beth Stenger
- 29 Berlin
- Boyhood Memories in Lewis County
- By Maxson B. Collins
- 34 Crider's Store
- By Robert Whitcomb
- 40 Gravedigger Dallas
Dunn
- Interview by Amber Griffith
- 42 The Lost Art of Gravedigging
- Photographs by Michael Keller
- 46 Carved in Stone
- West Virginia Grave Markers
- By Gerald Milnes
- 54 "I Won't Be Home No
More"
- The Death of Hank Williams
- By Maura Kistler
- 64 Hank's Lost Charleston
Show
- By John Lilly
- 66 Mountain Music Roundup
- By John Lilly
- 69 GOLDENSEAL 2002 Index
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