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  • Volkmar Wentzel, 2006
    • Goldenseal
    • Photography
    • West Virginia

    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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  • old iron furnace
    • Americana
    • Goldenseal
    • Photography
    • Scenery
    • West Virginia

    Virginia furnace glows for a split second

    The stone pyramid stands between Route 26 and Muddy Creek in Preston County, an imposing artifact from the county’s nascent industrial era. The iron furnace was built by Levi Kennet for Harrison Hagans, Brandonville’s foremost entrepreneur, merchant, and promoter. Historian Reardon S. Cuppett claimed it…

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  • Vine climbing building
    • Christianity
    • Open heart surgery
    • West Virginia

    Waiting for the big muscle to heal

    Part 3 of a memoir of heart failure, open-heart surgery and complications At some point in my recovery at the acute-care facility, a cardiologist tells me that the muscles in my body will not recover any faster than the big muscle, my heart, recovers.I do…

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  • Clifton Brooks
    • Goldenseal
    • West Virginia

    Visiting with West Virginia’s last living Tuskegee Airman

    You can trust a secret to Clifton E. Brooks Sr. Information that Clifton decoded back in the 1940s remains known only to Clifton, a resident of the county seat of Mineral County, Keyser, and West Virginia’s last surviving Tuskegee Airman. Clifton is getting up there…

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    • Americana
    • Baby Boomers
    • Carl's Posts
    • West Virginia

    A working man’s room

    Traveling across West Virginia, writing and photographing as I go, I am compelled to stay in economical accommodations. I look for rooms that cost under $50 a night, all taxes included. And so it was that began my autumnal pilgrimage in Bridgeport, where the clerk…

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These books have a much higher print and photo reproduction quality than those offered through KDP (amazon). Please shop small and order your books through our store, which matches or is below amazon.com on most titles.

 

 

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6 Seaford Lane
Bruceton Mills WV 26525
440-415-3596
carl@thefeathercottage.com

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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