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Remembering aunt ruby by the trees
My Aunt Ruby passed away last week. She really wasn’t my aunt; she was my father’s cousin, but she loved being called “Aunt Ruby.” Further, it sounds better than second cousin once-removed (genealogists will probably correct me on that). Ruby Catherine Feather was born March 3, 1931, to Guy Edwin and Anna Susan (Strawser). Guy’s parents were James Walter and Estella Agnes Harsh Feather, the parents of my paternal grandfather,…
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Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia
More than 35 years ago, I began wandering West Virginia in search of stories for the state’s traditional life magazine, Goldenseal. I am still wandering, writing and photographing for Goldenseal, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this spring. To mark that milestone in North Central West…
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Years of Wandering
For four decades I have wandered about West Virginia in search of stories for GOLDENSEAL magazine. As I approach my 70th birthday in June 2024 and the 50th anniversary of the magazine in April 2024, I am launching a seven-book series based upon my travels,…
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Coming to My Fathers’ land
My Fathers’ Land book is a sweeping memoir and family history covering nearly 250 years of Feathers in America and West Virginia.
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Chewing the fat at the mill
Spend an hour or two shelling corn and chewing the fat with Larry Mustain at his Reed’s Mill, and the conversation eventually comes around to instances of sex in the mill. “We heard a bunch of splashing by that little bridge (over the mill raceway),”…
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Sunday Afternoon with a legend
It was August 16, 2004, when my father and I met Volkmar Wentzel at his home in Aurora, W.Va. He and his wife, Viola, were visiting their farm from Washington, D.C., and agreed to meet me for an interview for Goldenseal Magazine. Mr. Wentzel is…
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Books
Carl E. Feather is the author of books about Appalachia, its people and traditions.
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Documentary
Photography and films documenting life in Appalachia.
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Goldenseal
A contributor since 1986, Carl E. Feather writes and photographs for West Virginia's GOLDENSEAL magazine..
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Film-to-digital transfers
Digital transfers of 8mm, super 8mm and 16mm motion picture film and 35mm slides.