Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia

with Carl E. Feather / Volume 1

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In this, the first in a series of seven books, Carl takes the reader down the back roads and alleys of The Mountain State as he discovers people and their stories for GOLDENSEAL Magazine.

Illustrated with dozens of photos from these excursions into the heart of Central Appalachia, the first Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia book has 14 chapters and 160 pages. The stories are:

  1. A Moundsville Penitentiary guard shares his stories of building and using Old Sparky, the state’s electric chair. He speaks frankly about the process of using the chair versus hanging as means of execution.
  2. A forest of license plates
  3. Pansy’s Country Store Opry
  4. Petersburg’s Minnie Pearl
  5. A Friendly shop featuring W.Va. glassware
  6. Walking Wheeling streets with Moon Dog
  7. The Wheeling Suspension Bridge’s tour guide
  8. A dark tunnel, twins, and state forest in Bloody Mingo territory
  9. A 90-year-old cobbler still riding his bicycle to work
  10. A Rocket Boys father gives a Coalwood tour
  11. The mountain man known as Crazy Bear
  12. Stumbling upon a Pleasure Valley
  13. A Chapel for a little boy
  14. Grinding grain with the last miller on Second Creek

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