A Publication of the West Humanities Council Road Work Council Projects Explore Two Great Highways

aken together, U.S. Routes 219 and 33 Writers Project” takes its inspiration from a form a great “X” whose four arms embrace classic book, the 1941 West Virginia: A Guide T a large part of West Virginia. These roads to the Mountain State. Produced by the West follow historic routes established long before Virginia Writers Project, a New Deal program of our state itself was created, incorporating the federal Works Progress Administration, the sections of the antebellum turnpikes that once Guide was part of a national series of WPA state served Western Virginia. Crossing at Elkins, they guidebooks. It divided West Virginia into more traverse more than a dozen counties and pass than 20 driving tours, following U.S. 219 and through nearly as many county seat towns. other major highways of that day (coincidentally Rambling from the headwaters of the Potomac including U.S. 33, though that is not part of the to the banks of the Ohio, these rural thorough- Pocahontas Libraries project). fares connect sites associated with the frontier According to its proposal to the Humanities

Mountains era, including the Fairfax Stone, as well as Council, the project’s goal is “to bring historical

several Civil War battlefields and great natural material from the Federal Writers Project to landmarks including the incomparable Seneca a modern audience and to promote heritage

& Rocks. tourism by celebrating the history, culture,

Needless to say, much of our history and and natural wonders along U.S. 219.” Project traditional culture may be found along these staff will revisit sites from the original Guide, winding ways. That’s the idea behind Humanities using photographs and interviews to depict Council grants recently awarded to organizations changes that have taken place since 1941. The in Randolph and Pocahontas counties. 219 Writers Project will produce a website to U.S. 219 will be the special focus of a showcase its findings, and interviews have been humanities project sponsored by Pocahontas featured on West Virginia Public Radio. County Free Libraries of Marlinton. The “219 The other project is sponsored by the Augusta Continued on page 3 People

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Whooping it up at Glenville, on the proposed Mountain Dance Trail. Photo by Gerald Milnes. The West Virginia Humanities Council Awards Won is a nonprofit organization governed by its board of hen you’re in the business of giving money away, it can be hard to directors. Wjudge your own success. And giving money away is mostly what we do here, through the grants the Humanities Council distributes statewide. Raymond W. Smock We get no complaints from the people receiving the grant dollars, as you President may imagine, but we also don’t usually get arms-length evaluations from James W. Rowley President Emeritus disinterested parties with no stake in the good things they tell us. It’s a common problem of nonprofits in a for-profit economy. Ordinarily Jean Beasley the market sets a value on things by the prices charged. When an Athens organization routinely gives its product away, it’s hard to know just what George I. Brown Clarksburg that product is really worth. Stan Cavendish That’s one of the reasons I value the awards that come our way — and Charleston there have been several lately: Jay Cole Just this spring, e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia won the regional Morgantown e-Appalachia Award, and our stewardship of the 1836 MacFarland- Sarah Denman Hubbard House won a preservation award from the Charleston Area Huntington Ken Fones-Wolf Alliance. Before that, the Kanawha Textbook War radio documentary, Morgantown a Council grant project, won a string of national prizes, including the Marie Foster Gnage prestigious Peabody and Murrow broadcast awards. And in 2011 Textbook Parkersburg War brought home the duPont-Columbia University Award, especially Kay Goodwin gratifying since Columbia is the mother church of journalism education. Charleston Then it was back to the Big Apple when our partners at WVU Press Larry Grimes took a design award at last year’s New York Book Show for our new West Bethany Julie Ritchie Gurtis Virginia Classics book series. Ravenswood So when someone inserted a line about our “award-winning ways” in a Eleanor Heishman recent report to the National Endowment for the Humanities, I didn’t take it Moorefield out. I figure the NEH, major grant makers themselves, will understand the Frances Hensley value of such awards in benchmarking the work we do. Huntington — Ken Sullivan Stephen M. Hopta Charleston Karl C. Lilly III People & Mountains is published three Ken Sullivan Executive Director Sissonville times a year by the West Virginia Kim Duff Fiscal Officer Tia C. McMillan Humanities Council. Cheryl Marsh Operations Manager Carol Nutter Secretary Martinsburg A state affiliate of the National Endowment Kristina Olson for the Humanities, the West Virginia Mark Payne Program Officer Morgantown Humanities Council serves West Virginia Amy Saunders Grants Administrator Paul Papadopoulos through grants and direct programs in the Debby Sonis Administrator Charleston humanities. Michelle Walker Director of Development Wayne Rebich Grandview We welcome letters, comments, and e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia Elisabeth H. Rose financial contributions. Please address all Becky Calwell Editor Independence correspondence to West Virginia Mike Keller Media Editor Humanities Council, 1310 Kanawha Sharon H. Rowe www.wvencyclopedia.org Boulevard, East, Charleston, WV 25301 Lewisburg or [email protected]. A.C. Designs Publication Design Karen Stakem Wheeling The Board of Directors welcomes three new members elected at the Council’s Victor Thacker recent meeting in Fairmont: Kay Goodwin of Charleston has served as Secre- Elkins Dolores Yoke tary of the Department of Education and the Arts since 2001 and is a former Clarksburg member of the Council’s board of directors. Wayne Rebich of Grandview is the southern West Virginia representative for the Affiliated Construction Trades Next Board Meeting Foundation, a division of the West Virginia State Building and Construction July 27, 2012 Trades Council, AFL-CIO. Dolores Yoke of Clarksburg is an active civic volunteer West Virginia who has served with the Harrison County United Way, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Independence Hall the Clarksburg Art Center, the Scared Heart Children’s Center, and the Com- Wheeling Open to the public munity Foundation of North Central West Virginia. We thank departing board member Trip Shumate of Charleston for his years of service.

People & Mountains 23 Continued from page 1 our minigrants category. Successful Heritage Center at Davis & Elkins planning grants often result in a Grant College in Elkins. It represents a first later proposal for more extensive step toward establishing a Mountain funding through the Council’s major Categories Dance Trail across the middle of the grants program. The Humanities Council Mountain State, falling roughly along While the two projects remain welcomes applications in the the east-west route of U.S. 33. The separate efforts, Milnes, Kinderman following grant categories:

project will emphasize community and others are now working Major Grants ($20,000 dances as a living tradition in a together to explore the possible maximum) support dozen locations along the proposed establishment of a Mountain Music humanities events: trail, which stretches from Pendleton Trail modeled after the popular symposiums, conferences, County to Jackson County through Crooked Road heritage music trail exhibits, lectures. the rural heart of West Virginia. in neighboring Virginia. Planners Due: *Sept. 1, Feb. 1 The roads scholars in charge will meet this spring and summer of the two projects are Gibbs in Lewisburg, Marlinton and Elkins, Minigrants ($1,500 maximum) support small Kinderman of Pocahontas County also under Humanities Council projects, single events, or and Gerald Milnes of Elkins. Both auspices. The idea in all these planning/consultation. are veteran Humanities Council undertakings is to preserve and Due: *June 1, Aug. 1, project directors. Milnes, one of document the traditional culture Oct. 1, Dec. 1, Feb. 1 West Virginia’s top folklorists, has and to give more people the chance been working with dance project to enjoy it. Fellowships ($2,500) personnel to gather preliminary In the meantime, Milnes, a support research and documentation of local dance square dance fiddler and himself a writing projects for humanities faculty and venues. dancer, rejoices in the opportunities independent scholars. These two grants are good already available in West Virginia. Due: Feb. 1 examples of the range of support “Community square dancing can offered by the Humanities Council. be found somewhere in the heart Media Grants ($20,000 The U.S. 219 project falls under of the state every weekend,” maximum) support the our media grants category, with the he recently told the Elkins production of electronic or main object to establish the website. Intermountain newspaper. “No other film materials, or a The dance trail project was funded state in the Appalachian region has newspaper series. Due: *Sept. 1 under a planning grant, falling into a comparable tradition.” Publication Grants ($20,000 maximum) “US 219, known in West Virginia as the support the production Seneca Trail, closely follows the section of the phase of a completed Warriors Road that crossed the State. This manuscript by recognized was the route along which Indians traveled nonprofit and academic the wilderness from the St. Lawrence River presses. to Georgia, long before the first white man Due: *Sept. 1 made his way into what is now West Virginia; Teacher Institute Grants the formidable Seneca passed this way on ($25,000 maximum) their war expeditions against the Cherokee, are available to colleges their southern enemies. The route traversed and universities and a region known in the early history of Virginia support summer seminars as West Augusta, which in the dark days of for secondary and the Revolution is said to have inspired George elementary teachers. Washington to say, ‘Leave me but a banner to Due: *Sept. 1 plant upon the mountains of West Augusta, *Approaching and I will gather around me the men who will Deadlines! lift our bleeding country from the dust and set her free.’” Visit www.wvhumanities. —From the1941 West Virginia: org for applications and A Guide to the Mountain State guidelines, or call Marion Post Wolcott Marion Post (304)346-8500. The Tygarts Valley Co-op, on U.S. 219, from A Guide to the Mountain State.

People & Mountains 23 3 Spring 2012 The 2012 Little Lecture Series continues with “Robert E. Lee in West Virginia” by historian Hunter Lesser on May 20 and concludes on June 24 with Denise Giardina discussing the 25th anniversary of her novel Storming Heaven. Both programs begin at 2:00 p.m. at the historic MacFarland-Hubbard House in Charleston. Please call (304)346-8500 if you are interested in attending. Fellowships Awarded Humanities Council West Virginia Day and Father’s Day are Fellowships are awarded right around the corner, and here are annually to college faculty the perfect gifts: The two-DVD set of West and independent scholars for Virginia: A Film History is priced at $29.95. research and writing projects The West Virginia Encyclopedia, a regional within the humanities. The bestseller, is the big book of West Virginia $2,500 grants are unique in with more than 2,200 articles and hundreds the Mountain State. The next of illustrations. It retails for $44.95. You’ll Fellowships application dead- find both in bookstores, or at the West line is February 1, 2013. The Virginia Humanities Council, (304)346- 2012 Humanities Fellows 8500, www.wvhumanities.org. and their subjects are: Sam Stack, Morgantown, The Arthurdale Community Battle of Harpers Ferry School A Humanities Council grant will support the Harpers Ferry Viatcheslav Gratchev, Historical Association’s fall program “Prelude to Freedom: The 1862 Huntington, Cervantes and Battle of Harpers Ferry.” The three-day symposium commemorates Dostoevsky the battle’s 150th anniversary, and takes place in Harpers Ferry David Trowbridge, September 13-15. There will be lectures, panel discussions, and a Huntington, African-American keynote address by the distinguished Civil War historian Drew Gilpin Migration to the West Faust, president of Harvard University. First-day events include a lecture by Ranger Todd Bolton of Daniel Weimer, Wheeling, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and a Battle of Maryland The War on Plants: Heights Sesquicentennial hike. The evening program begins at Controlling Drugs and Nature 7:00 p.m. with a lecture by Scott Hartwig, supervising historian at Rhonda Reymond, Gettysburg National Battlefield Park. Morgantown, Richard Morris On Friday, participants can visit an archeological discovery tent Hunt’s French Ecclesiastical at the Armory Grounds, take part in a walk to Bolivar Heights with Influences Ranger Bolton, tour Camp Hill and John Brown’s Fort in Arsenal Elizabeth Savage, Fairmont, Square, take in living history programs and musical presentations, Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry and hear an evening program of cavalry vignettes in Lower Town. On Saturday, the programming continues with a panel discussion Leslie Anne Warden, with Hartwig; William Blair, director of the Civil War Era Center at Charleston, Pottery and Penn State University; James Bryant II of Shenandoah University; Economy in Old Kingdom and education specialist Kathleen Ernst. Panelists will address the Egypt battle from a military perspective and discuss its effect on the town’s Kate Kelsey Staples, civilian population. Morgantown, Women in the The keynote speaker delivers her address on Saturday night at the Early European Secondhand Storer College Chapel at 7:00 p.m. For more information visit www. Trade harpersferryhistory.org. Harpers Ferry today, by David Fattaleh. Chris Green, Huntington, Colonial and Antebellum Appalachian Literature What’s New in the Humanities What’s

People & Mountains 45 The iconic Big Wheel was made by Marx Toy Company in Marshall County.

Toys Exhibit Briefs The Museums of Oglebay Institute presents its Toys Humanities Council President Raymond from Wheeling Childhood W. Smock of Martinsburg received the exhibit with an opening presentation by guest curator Tim Luke 2012 Roger R. Trask Award of the So- on June 23. Mr. Luke has worked for Christie’s Auction, HG ciety for History in the Federal Govern- TV and PBS, and is now with TreasureQuest Appraisals. The ment. The award is presented to those exhibit, supported by a Humanities Council grant, examines toy whose careers and achievements re- collecting, the antique toy market, the history of toys, and the flect a commitment to the importance impact of toys on American culture. For more information visit of federal history. Smock is the former www.oionline.com. official historian of the U.S. House of Representatives and now directs the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Voices from the Storm Studies at Shepherd University. The Humanities Council recently awarded a grant to the Historic Shepherdstown Com- We welcome new members to the Hu- mission for Voices from the Storm: A Museum manities Council Program Committee: Exhibit on Civil War Shepherdstown. The per- Pat Dillon, an education consultant manent exhibit opened May 5 at the Entler from Mingo County, and Amy Nicholas Hotel, home of the Historic Shepherdstown of Calhoun County, a middle school Museum. It tells the story of Shepherdstown’s citizens during teacher and civic volunteer. The Pro- the Civil War. Five actual residents are portrayed—an older gram Committee oversees program woman, a slave, a Confederate soldier, a young woman, and activities and recommends grants for a Union sympathizer—through photographs, text, and period approval by the board of directors. We artifacts. Charles Wesley Andrews (above) was the rector of thank departing member Harold Forbes Trinity Episcopal Church in Shepherdstown during the war. A of Morgantown for his years of service. Northerner by birth, he opposed secession, writing that, “It is a monstrous delusion and monstrous wrong.” Visit www. e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia historicshepherdstown.com. received the e-Appalachia Award during the 35th Annual Appalachian Digging Thornhill: The Studies Conference in March. The Friends of Mountwood Park award is given “in recognition of an will host an Archaeological outstanding website that provides Field School at Thornhill es- insight on Appalachia and its people, tate in Volcano, Wood Coun- or provides a vital community service ty. Thornhill was the home to Appalachians.” The Appalachian of oil baron W. C. Stiles, Jr. Studies Association has supported The dig, July 23-August 3, writing, research, and teaching related

Charleston Gazette Charleston is supported by a Humanities to the Appalachian region since 1977. Council grant and is open to the public. Participants The Beckley Area Foundation has

Kenny Kemp/ will join Hocking College awarded $1,000 to the Council’s Histo- archaeologists and students to uncover life at Thornhill. Inter- ry Alive program for five presentations pretive signs now identify some of the building sites previously at Raleigh County schools. History unearthed, and include the mansion ruins, wine cellar, fruit and Alive brings historical figures to life by vegetable cellar, barn, large cistern, the caretaker’s residence, knowledgeable presenters who interact and stone steps from Volcano Road. Contact Mike Naylor at with their audiences both in and out of (304)485-5365 or [email protected]. character.

Harpers Ferry today, by David Fattaleh. We get mail! Dear friends, I recently received several books donated by your agency. Thank you for your generosity and kindness. Your gift will keep children reading and foster a love of books that will last a lifetime. Debbie Cannada, West Side Elementary School, Charleston The Humanities Council recently distributed children’s books to school librarians.

People & Mountains 45 5 Spring 2012 The Humanities Council 2012 Civil War Sesquicentennial bus tour departs Charleston Tuesday morning, September 11, for Carnifex Ferry Battlefield, followed by lunch in Lewisburg and more sightseeing before we travel to the site of the Battle of in Pocahon- tas County. Dinner will be served at the historic Graceland mansion in Elkins. We’ll overnight there and leave Wednesday morning, September 12, for Philippi, and later a battlefield lunch at Rich Mountain, before traveling on to historic Beverly. On the way home we will take dinner at Sutton’s popular Café Cimino. The bus trip is priced at $320 per per- son, double occupancy, and $345 per person for single rooms. Contact Michelle Walker at [email protected] or (304)346-8500 to sign up.

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The West Virginia Humanities Council gratefully acknowledges support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Office of the West Virginia Secretary of Education and the Arts; and foundations, corporations, and individuals throughout the Mountain State and beyond. John Marshall Expedition n 1812 John Marshall led a 227-mile expedition over the IAllegheny Mountains to seek a canal route between Richmond and the Ohio River. The trip was all the more remarkable because Marshall was Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the time. The Humanities Council is celebrating the bi- centennial of the pioneering survey with lectures in Fayette and Summers counties, both of which are on Marshall’s route. Early in 1812, the General Assembly of Vir- ginia appointed a commission to determine the feasibility of a commercial water route between Richmond and the Ohio River. On September 1, Marshall and Rockbridge Coun- ty surveyor Andrew Alexander left Lynchburg along with other dignitaries. They traveled by batteau, poling up the James and Jackson rivers to Covington before hauling the boat by wagon over the mountains to Caldwell, near Lewisburg. The 20-man survey party floated, dragged, and lined the heavy wooden boat down the Greenbrier and New, finally rattling out of New River Gorge to end their journey at Kanawha Falls on October 9. For many years the cliffs at Hawks Nest were known as Marshall’s Pil- lars in honor of the trip. Marshall University is also named for the Chief Justice. John Marshall reported to the General Assembly that he was optimistic about the potential for a trade route along these rivers. However, the War of 1812 took precedence over the need for internal improvements. Ultimately Mar- shall’s report and Alexander’s map proved prophetic, as the path they followed provided much of the route for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and Interstate 64. The cliffs at Hawks In honor of this important exploration into the Mountain State, Nest, once known Ranger Frank Sellers of the New River Gorge National River will make as Marshall’s two presentations of “The John Marshall Expedition: An 1812 Survey Pillars, from through the .” He will speak in the courtrooms of the Fayette Harper’s, August and Summers county courthouses, on June 26 in Fayetteville and on 1878. September 28 in Hinton. Both programs begin at 7:00 p.m. and are free and open to the public.