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Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia
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Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia is devoted to documenting the traditions, culture, history, and personalities of West Virginia's back roads. The channel provides supplemental video content for the Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia book series by Carl E. Feather and his quarterly Backroads feature in Goldenseal magazine. It also contains videos about Carl's books on Appalachian topics. Visit his website at thefeathercottage for his blog, photo galleries from the books, and more information about his books.
Buckwheat Festival parade 1965
This is a short segment from a reel of 16mm home movies of the Preston County Buckwheat Festival in Kingwood, W.Va. The parade, based upon license plates in the video, is from the era 1959-1965. The entire film has been digitized and restored. For a DVD of the film, send email to carl@thefeathercottage.com
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Aqualand Park clown buggy in Buckwheat Festival parade, early 1960s
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This is a clip of an Aqualand clown vehicle appearing in a Preston County Buckwheat Festival parade, circa 1963-65. Aqualand and its associated Storybook Park were located along the Potomac River in Maryland, but they sent their crowd-pleasing advertising buggy and clowns to Preston County In West Virginia for the big festival parade. The clip is from an uncredited reel of 16mm movies of the fe...
Even More Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia
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Volume III of the Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia book series shares stories of nostalgic places and traditions in West Virginia. This video highlights some of those stories. Purchase all the books in this series at amazon.com.
More Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia
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This video highlights some of the individuals interviewed and profiled in the second volume of the Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia with Carl E. Feather book series. The second book focuses on individuals who overcame great obstacles and hardships to create some of the state's enduring attractions, such as O'Hurley's General Store in Shepherdstown, Yokum's Vacationland in Seneca Rocks, and th...
My Fathers' Land book West Virginia Palatinates
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Video explains the story behind the book, My Fathers' Land, which focuses on Palatinate immigration to North-Central West Virginia. German-Swiss immigrants who came from the Palatinate (Rhineland) area of Germany found the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia much to their liking. The land had a topography similar to that of their homeland. The climate and soil conditions were ...
Introducing the Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia book series
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Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia is a series of books by Carl E. Feather of Bruceton Mills, W.Va., and published by Feather Cottage Media. The books are available on amazon.com and at festivals/fairs/shows that Carl attends as a vendor. This short video presents a few of the highlights of the first volume. Carl is a retired photojournalist and author. More than 120 of his photo/text packages ...
That is amazing!!!! Great job!!!! it warms my heart to see the huge crowds and the old buildings and the way they did things then!!!