Volume 43, Number 2

On the Cover: Goldie Webb of Richwood recalls working in the world's largest clothespin factory. Photo by Mark Romano.

Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Jim Justice, Governor

Gayle C. Manchin, Secretary
Office of Education and the Arts

Randall Reid-Smith, Commissioner
Department of Arts, Culture and History

Stan Bumgardner, Editor

Kim Johnson,
Editorial Assistant

Karin Kercheval Design
Publication Design

Summer 2017

2 From the Editor

4 Letters from Readers

5 GOLDENSEAL Good-Byes

6 West Virginia Journalist Wins Pulitzer Prize

By Stan Bumgardner

8 Adventures Menu: Sharing Traditional

Philipino Food in Parkersburg
By Emily Hilliard

10 The World's Largest Clothespin Factory

By Beverly Steenstra

18 The Cherry River Navy

20 Richwood: The Way it Was

By Olive Workman Persinger
as told to Donna McGuire Tanner

26 Last Photographers: Finley Taylor

By Anne Johnson and Mark Romano

36 The Cockayne House:

A Preservation Effort by the Whole Community
By Larry Shockley

44 Samuel A.J. Cockayne

By Nila Chaddock

46 Where in the World is Cat Heaven?

By Kathy Marks

52 Sowball

By David Ball

56 From the Bottom Up:

Cinder Bottom's Red Light District
By Katharine R. Spindler

64 The Night Eva Tanguay Rang Down

The Curtain in Fairmont
By M. Raymond Alvarez

70 "Charmingly Funky":

See's Motel in Wardensville
By Keith A. Sculle

72 West Virginia Back Roads:

Keyser's Cobbler: Following in His Father's Soles
By Carl E. Feather

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