Image galleries from the book
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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Artist Alley
Ernest Gabler is a West Virginia artist who has received much attention in East Coast cities but not his hometown of Thomas, W.Va., despite it being an art community. Discover his work in this video by Carl E. Feather.
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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…
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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 Virginia, the Aurora Project will host an exhibition of photography…