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    West Virginia Backroads videos added

    During the past six months of recovery from open heart surgery, I have had the downtime necessary to put together several videos of my interviews for Goldenseal magazine. These videos are packaged as “West Virginia Backroads” and are available on YouTube. Most of these videos…

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    Mourning a tree in blossom

    (May 2020, Geneva, Ohio) Its five main limbs resembled the biceps of a circus weightlifter. They emerged from the low-set trunk just a few inches above the former orchard’s soil; twenty-inches in diameter at their widest, the limbs rose like a worshiper’s arms and terminated…

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    The lost skill of frugality

    Frugality. There’s a word you rarely hear on YouTube or see on electronic screens these days. With the alleged booming economy, I suppose most Americans don’t have much need for frugality in 2020. But it hasn’t been that many years ago when being frugal was…

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    ‘the bible for all things Ashtabula’

    “The bible for all things Ashtabula.” That’s the way veteran journalist and author Neil Zurcher describes our new book, “Ashtabula County: A field guide.” He goes on to say “It is a compact history of a wonderful county, the people who live there and the…

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    Spiritual lessons from a prodigal dog

    My  mother passed away Monday evening (January 29, 2018). I had visited with her earlier in the day, and I knew her time with us was very short. She had run the race, the finish line was near. 85 years. She was tired. She was…

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    Elmer Backlund

    I met him about 15 months ago, when I interviewed Elmer Backlund and two other A&B Dock employees for an Ashtabula Wave story. Elmer brought a surprise to that meeting at Norman Millberg’s house: The log he had kept while machine foreman on the dock,…

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6 Seaford Lane
Bruceton Mills WV 26525
440-415-3596
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Recent documentary film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsUG1aV65Ms&t=40s

Carl E. Feather

Carl E. Feather is a retired, award-winning print journalist and photographer who lives in Bruceton Mills, W.Va. His work has received awards from Associated Press, UPI, Thomson Newspapers, and CNHI newspapers.
He provides boutique film-to-digital transfer services, writes for Goldenseal Magazine and is the author of more than a dozen books. His work also may be found in the Tucker County Observer (W.Va.) A film collector since high school days, he pursues documentary photography and filmmaking, as well.

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