Matron of Honor, Dena Williams, and other wedding guests eating weddin...
Event: Crystal Pettry and Bruce Ramsey's Wedding. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ramp House, a community center, at the head of Drews Creek
Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are wild leeks found throughout the Appalachian mountain range. Their appearance early in the spring of the year is hailed throughout the southern Appalachian mountains with feasting at... More
The Delbert Chapel across from the Ramp House at the head of Drews Cre...
Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are wild leeks found throughout the Appalachian mountain range. Their appearance early in the spring of the year is hailed throughout the southern Appalachian mountains with feasting at... More
Autumn colors of forest canopy with morning fog
Event: Documentation of forest health. Alpine Images photograph by Jenny Hager. Used with permission.
Autumn colors of forest canopy, Naoma
Event: Documentation of forest health. Alpine Images photograph by Jenny Hager. Used with permission.
Junior Peters, seated in his living room, surrounded by hunting trophi...
Event: Interview with Junior Peters about deer hunting. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Syble Pettry, proprietor of Syble's Bed and Barn in Naoma, West Virgin...
Event: Interview with Syble Pettry. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and p...
Event: Interview with Pat Canterbury about labor history on Coal River.
Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and p...
Event: Interview with Pat Canterbury about labor history on Coal River.
Coal river. Glendale Tabor, Naoma, WV. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Interview with Glendale Tabor. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and p...
Event: Interview with Pat Canterbury about labor history on Coal River.
Lucy Cabell of Cabin Creek, West Virginia, in Syble's Restaurant
Event: Interview with Betty Bonds and Lucy Cabell about Aspects of Woods.
Junior Peters, seated in his living room, surrounded by hunting trophi...
Event: Interview with Junior Peters about deer hunting. Public domain photograph of a deer, elk, wild animal,wildlife, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Betty Bonds of Drews Creek, West Virginia, in Syble's Restaurant
Event: Interview with Betty Bonds and Lucy Cabell about Aspects of Woods.
Hunting trophies on the wall of Junior Peters' living room
Event: Interview with Junior Peters about deer hunting. Public domain photograph of a deer, wild animal, wilderness, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Montcoal at twilight, from Cigar Hill
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Danny Williams. Southern West Vi...
Event: Interview with Danny and Gregory Williams. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Glen Dale Tabor lines up a shot as John Flynn looks on
Event: Shooting pool at Tabor's Convenience Store. Public domain photograph of pharmacy, drugs, medicine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gravestone of Trap Dickens, first cousin to Little Jimmy Dickens (coun...
"That's what we called him," said Kenny Pettry. "Trap, from trapping in the coal mines." Event: Tour of Peach Tree Creek and cemeteries with Martha and Kenny Pettry.
Fraser magnolia bloom (Magnolia fraseri) also known as "mountain magno...
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Glen Dale Tabor shooting pool at Tabor's Convenience Store
Event: Shooting pool at Tabor's Convenience Store. Public domain photograph of swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patrons of Glendale Tabor's convenience store discussing images of dis...
Event: Interview with Patrons of Tabor's Convenience Store. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. John Flynn and Bob Daniel. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Interview with Bob Daniel. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Danny Williams, Clay's Branch. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Interview with Danny and Gregory Williams. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Logging transport operation, Naoma, West Virginia
Event: Driving Route 3. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Roadside shrine, along Route 3, commemorating the victim of a car acci...
Public domain photograph of car crash, accident, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Flynn and Glen Dale Tabor shooting pool at Tabor's Convenience St...
Event: Shooting pool at Tabor's Convenience Store. Public domain photograph of pool game, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cobby Dillon's cabin, built of chestnut logs in the early 1900s
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Cabin was built by Elsie (Williams) Rich's father in Pettus, West Virginia. Cobby Dillon moved the logs to Naoma and reconstructed the cabin on this site, across Route 3 from Sy... More
Judy Griffy and Mary Hufford on Turner Family Homeplace looking at the...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a garden, gardening, agriculture, plants, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Flame azalea (Rhododendron calendulaceum), known locally as "honeysuck...
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Gregory Williams, Clay's Branch. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Interview with Danny and Gregory Williams. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Names of Pettry family members on a sign hanging on the "Barn", a dorm...
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Logging transport operation, Naoma, West Virginia
Event: Driving Route 3. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Morning mist rising from the coves
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Black walnut pie topped with whipped cream made by Shorty Bongalis
Event: Interview with Mae Bongalis and her son, Kostis "Shorty" Bongalis.
Coal river. Bob Daniel, Dry Creek, WV. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Interview with Bob Daniel. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mixed mesophytic canopy in fall foliage
Event: Documentation of forest health. Alpine Images photograph by Jenny Hager. Used with permission.
Logging transport operation, Naoma, West Virginia
Event: Driving Route 3. Public domain photograph of timber industry, lumber, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cobby Dillon's cabin, built of chestnut logs in the early 1900s
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Cabin was built by Elsie (Williams) Rich's father in Pettus, West Virginia. Cobby Dillon moved the logs to Naoma and reconstructed the cabin on this site, across Route 3 from Sy... More
Sign in front of Syble's Bed and Barn, a boarding house and restaurant...
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Public domain photograph of movie theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stone foundation on Turner Family Homeplace, overgrown with moss and V...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The confluence of Drews Creek and Peachtree Creek
These are aerials of some of the Coal River communities and sites of our field research, including the Left and Right hand Forks of Rock Creek (which Benny Campbell called "a pretty flat valley, for this countr... More
Cobby Dillon's cabin, built of chestnut logs in the early 1900s
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Cabin was built by Elsie (Williams) Rich's father in Pettus, West Virginia. Cobby Dillon moved the logs to Naoma and reconstructed the cabin on this site.
Just-picked strawberries in Sadie Miller's kitchen
Event: Visit with Howard and Sadie Miller. Public domain photograph of food preparation, chef, food, culinary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crystal Meadows, Syble Pettry and Bob Daniel having coffee in the morn...
The Back Porch is a gathering place where locals come for coffee, a meal, or to take home some "fast food." Out-of-state miners and contractors stay at Syble's and eat all their meals here.
Butternut walnuts drying on the porch of the Miller home
Event: Visit to Drews Creek after a severe flood in Spring of 1996.
Dave Bailey, going for ramps near the Poplar Flats on Hazy Creek
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bill Jarrell with one of his handmade tools
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mae Bongalis in her basement adding more coal to the stove. The basem...
Black walnut season is marked by the appearance on many porches of coal buckets (as five gallon plastic buckets are called) filled with aromatic green nuts ready to be cured, hulled, and then cracked. The proce... More
Woody Boggs rebuilding an engine at Jarrell's Garage
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Dave Bailey. Southern West Virgi...
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Rocky Turner, of Naoma, WV. Southern West Virginia.
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mae Bongalis cracking black walnuts in her basement
Black walnut season is marked by the appearance on many porches of coal buckets (as five gallon plastic buckets are called) filled with aromatic green nuts ready to be cured, hulled, and then cracked. The proce... More
Raised flower bed around the tree in the side yard of Mae Bongalis's h...
Event: Visit to Mae and Shorty Bongalis. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Exterior of Mae Bongalis' home, with daffodils blooming on the bank
Event: Visit to Mae and Shorty Bongalis. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Syble Pettry unpacking Leather Britches (dried beans)
Event: Visit to Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Syble Pettry, owner and proprietor of Syble's Bed & Barn
The Back Porch is a gathering place where locals come for coffee, a meal, or to take home some "fast food." Out-of-state miners and contractors stay at Syble's and eat all their meals here.
Barbecue at Syble's Bed and Barn
Event: Barbecue at Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dave Bailey digging ramps near the Poplar Flats on Hazy Creek
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Daffodils blooming in Mae Bongalis's yard, with Chrysanthemums behind
Event: Visit to Mae and Shorty Bongalis. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Some of Bill Jarrell's handmade tools
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Syble Pettry and her grandson, Rusty, unpacking Leather Britches
Event: Visit to Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Leather Britches (dried beans). Southern West Virginia.
Event: Visit to Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Johnny Howerton, coal miner, eating breakfast at Syble's Bed & Barn, f...
At 22 years of age, Johnny Howerton is the youngest mine boss in this area. Event: Breakfast at Syble's Bed & Barn.
Menu board at the Back Porch Restaurant featuring shoe string beans or...
Event: Visit to Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Stinking" elm tree (a.k.a. slippery elm).
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dave Bailey with ramps near Poplar Flats on Hazy Creek
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cooked leather britches served with lunch
Event: Visit to Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Boarders at Syble's Bed & Barn playing "Pass the Trash," a low-stakes ...
The men playing cards were staying at Syble's while working on contract for Performance Coal, an A.T. Massey subsidiary at Montcoal.
Kostis "Shorty" Bongalis in the kitchen
Event: Visit to the home of Mae Bongalis. Shorty is Mae Bongalis's son.
Syble Pettry talks about Leather Britches (dried beans)
Event: Visit to Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rock shelter on Coal River near the Girl Scout Camp Hole
Event: Tour of rock shelters and camp rocks on Coal River drainage basin. "Archeological surveys on file at the Division of Environmental Protection make note of the "bedrock overhangs," sandstone outcroppings ... More
Mae Bongalis in her kitchen with locally-gathered black walnuts that s...
Black walnut season is marked by the appearance on many porches of coal buckets (as five gallon plastic buckets are called) filled with aromatic green nuts ready to be cured, hulled, and then cracked. The proce... More
Christmas display in front of Syble's Bed & Barn
Public domain photograph - Merry Christmas or Happy New Year, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mae Bongalis' front door, daffodils blooming outside
Event: Visit to Mae and Shorty Bongalis. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Leather Britches (dried beans) simmering on the stove in the kitchen o...
Event: Visit to Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Beech tree trunk with initials and numbers carved into the bark
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Quarles and Luke Taylor gathering ramps on Hazy Creek
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Workers for the Rifle Construction Company, from West Liberty, KY, hav...
Public domain photograph of restaurant tables, dinner, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Drews Creek sign felled by floodwaters
Event: Visit to Drews Creek after the flood of 1996. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mae Bongalis strings beans for drying. The dried beans are known as l...
The beans Mae Bongalis is stringing came from Ben Burnside's garden on Rock Creek. The beans are called "Bill Dickens Beans" after Dennis Dickens' grandfather, William, on Peachtree Creek. Event: Visit to the h... More
Half a modular home being transported up Peach Tree Road
The hauler had problems negotiating the turns and crossing the narrow bridge on Peachtree Road.
Mae Bongalis's black walnut/pumpkin bread
Event: A visit with Mae Bongalis. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Christmas display in front of Syble's Bed & Barn
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sadie Miller carrying just-picked strawberries in her sweatshirt
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mae Bongalis holding a pail of cracked black walnut shells
Black walnut season is marked by the appearance on many porches of coal buckets (as five gallon plastic buckets are called) filled with aromatic green nuts ready to be cured, hulled, and then cracked. The proce... More
The Irene Portal of Armco's Number 115 Mine, Hazy Creek
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph of a cave, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Woody Boggs welding "the teacher's jeep"
Event: Visit to the home of Woody Boggs. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Boarders at Syble's Bed & Barn playing "Pass the Trash," a low-stakes ...
The men playing cards were staying at Syble's while working on contract for Performance Coal, an A.T. Massey subsidiary at Montcoal.
Computer-generated sign at Shorty Bongalis' walnut cracking station in...
Black walnut season is marked by the appearance on many porches of coal buckets (as five gallon plastic buckets are called) filled with aromatic green nuts ready to be cured, hulled, and then cracked. The proce... More
Dena Williams making dumplings at Syble's Bed & Barn in Naoma, West Vi...
Event: Cooking at Syble's Bed and Barn. Public domain photograph of restaurant chef, culinary, food preparation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mae Bongalis strings beans for drying. The dried beans are known as l...
The beans Mae Bongalis is stringing came from Ben Burnside's garden on Rock Creek. The beans are called "Bill Dickens Beans" after Dennis Dickens' grandfather, William, on Peachtree Creek. Event: Visit to the h... More
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Coltsfoot flowers. Southern West...
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Bill Jarrell, Peachtree Creek. Southern West Virginia.
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
