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Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia, Vol. 1
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Robert Harness, preserver of history, former guard of the Moundsville State Penitentiary, executioner, construction foreman for the West Virginia electric chair, “Old Sparky.”
Hammel’s license plate forest
Pansy’s Country Store Opry and Elsie Whitmer, Minnie Pearl impersonator
Louise Carr, selling W.Va. glassware in Friendly
Charles Waldrum, aka Moon Dog, Wheeling’s night vigilante
Dick Clark and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge
Cabwaylingo State Forest, Bonnie Watts, Bloody Mingo & Dingess Tunnel
Calemine’s Patriotic Shoe Shop, Keyser, W.Va.
Coalwood Rocket Boy’s father
Crazy Bear’s Indian Store
Pleasure Valley
Randy Brown Chapel for a little boy
Larry Mustain’s Reed’s Mill on Second Creek, Monroe County, W.Va.
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