Randy Halstead, ginseng broker, evaluates ginseng in the purchase room...
People who harvest wild botanicals from the woods can sell their wares to local brokers like Randy Halstead, the proprietor of Randy's Recycling in Peytona, West Virginia. Halstead annually brokers hundreds of ... More
Mary Hufford (Left), Dave, and Glenna Bailey in the Bailey's kitchen
Event: Visit to Dave and Glenna Bailey's home. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Goldenseal, aka "yellow root" - Public domain botanical illustration
Goldenseal, more commonly known as "Yellow Root," is gathered both for the purpose of selling it and for its medicinal value. It is widely used as a remedy for colds and sore throats, as well as other maladies ... More
Pile of molly moochers found on Bradley Mountain by Woody Boggs and Da...
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ginseng plant leaves turn a distinctive pale yellow in the fall
Since the 17th century, when a Jesuit priest in Canada identified ginseng (Panax quinquefolia) as a root prized in Asia and therefore exportable, ginseng has provided an annual source of cash for people living ... More
Woody Boggs' gasoline-powered wood splitter
Event: Visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Woody Boggs splitting wood at Gail Ballard's house
Event: Visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Seng (ginseng) hoes. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Three generations of ginseng hunters. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Randy Sprouse gathering ginseng ('senging) in Tom's Hollow
Event: Ginsenging in Tom's Hollow. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Examples of ginseng roots laid out on a table in the purchase room at ...
People who harvest wild botanicals from the woods can sell their wares to local brokers like Randy Halstead, the proprietor of Randy's Recycling in Peytona, West Virginia. Halstead annually brokers hundreds of ... More
Three large buckets of black walnuts gathered by Dave Bailey and John ...
Event: Black walnut harvesting with Dave Bailey and John Russell. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Glenna Bailey (Right) serving a slice of her black walnut cake to Mary...
Event: Visit to Dave and Glenna Bailey's home. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joe, age 11, picking morel mushrooms
Event: Molly mooching with Kay Miller and Joe. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Woody Boggs claiming a molly moocher under a freshly-sprouted mayapple
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. 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
Woody Boggs (right) and James Martin in front of a hollowed chestnut s...
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Dave Bailey and Woody Boggs looking for molly moochers
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Randy Sprouse inspecting the ginseng he's dug
Since the 17th century, when a Jesuit priest in Canada identified ginseng (Panax quinquefolia) as a root prized in Asia and therefore exportable, ginseng has provided an annual source of cash for people living ... More
Joe Williams displaying the ginseng he dug
Event: Ginseng Hunting. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Glenna Bailey with fried molly moochers
Event: Molly mooching season on Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Yucca plants, a.k.a. "ghost plants," an indicator of a former settleme...
Event: Molly mooching on Lillybrook Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Molly moochers (morel mushrooms), batter-dipped and fried by Debbie Wo...
Event: Molly mooching season on Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Site of the former Wayne Bradley home on Bradley Mountain at the head ...
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ricky Meadows with a handful of goldenseal roots
Dink Meadows, and her son, Ricky, lived near Colcord at the mouth of what is known as Booger Hollow on Clear Fork. In July of 2001, several impoundments for holding minewater for the Samples Mine on the Cabin C... More
Ginseng on desktop at Randy's Recycling
People who harvest wild botanicals from the woods can sell their wares to local brokers like Randy Halstead, the proprietor of Randy's Recycling in Peytona, West Virginia. Halstead annually brokers hundreds of ... More
Shelby Cantley Estep (Left), Natalie and Carla Pettry: three generati...
Event: Three generations of ginseng hunters. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Woody Boggs looking for molly moochers
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Woody Boggs harvesting molly moochers. Southern West Virgi...
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A box of cultivated ginseng from out-of-state at Randy's Recycling in ...
People who harvest wild botanicals from the woods can sell their wares to local brokers like Randy Halstead, the proprietor of Randy's Recycling in Peytona, West Virginia. Halstead annually brokers hundreds of ... More
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
Coal river. Ginseng drying in a window. Southern West Virginia.
Public domain photograph of window, architectural element, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dave Bailey with woolen britches, a spring green, 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
Coal river. Woody Boggs splitting wood. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Tiffany with a smallmouth bass. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Fishing and Seining for Hellgrammites. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ginseng plant with berries in fall
Event: Ginseng Hunting. Ginseng is protected under the Fish and Wildlife Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). According to the law, state ginseng programs set seasons for ginseng dig... More
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
Natalie Pettry with her seng (ginseng) hoe
Event: Three generations of ginseng hunters. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bucket of black walnuts in their green hulls
Event: Black walnut harvesting with Dave Bailey and John Russell. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Black walnuts on the tree. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Black walnut harvesting with Dave Bailey and John Russell. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Black walnuts with and without their characteristic green hull
Event: Black walnut harvesting with Dave Bailey and John Russell. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Terry and Dave Bailey with molly moochers they gathered on Bradley Mou...
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Flynn and Ben Burnside standing in the door to a tool shed on Ben...
Event: Visit with Ben Burnside. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ben Burnside, digging ramps in the patch behind his home
Event: Visit with Ben Burnside. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joe Williams with ginseng plant in his hand
Since the 17th century, when a Jesuit priest in Canada identified ginseng (Panax quinquefolia) as a root prized in Asia and therefore exportable, ginseng has provided an annual source of cash for people living ... More
Ben Burnside digging ramps in a patch located on a slope behind his ho...
Event: Visit with Ben Burnside. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Interior of a paw-paw. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Visit to Judy Griffy's paw-paw tree. 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
Mary Jarrell and Mary Hufford on the four-wheeler
Event: Four-wheeling and berry-picking at the head of Rock Creek.
Joe, age 11, picking morel mushrooms
Event: Molly mooching with Kay Miller and Joe. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mabel Brown in the ramp patch behind her home
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dave Bailey and Woody Boggs with a harvest of molly moochers in three ...
Event: Molly mooching on Lillybrook Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Close-up of ginseng. Southern West Virginia.
People who harvest wild botanicals from the woods can sell their wares to local brokers like Randy Halstead, the proprietor of Randy's Recycling in Peytona, West Virginia. Halstead annually brokers hundreds of ... More
Joe Williams digging a ginseng root with his "seng" hoe. The root mus...
Event: Ginseng Hunting. Ginseng is protected under the Fish and Wildlife Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). According to the law, state ginseng programs set seasons for ginseng dig... More
"Lacy leaf cressie," also called creasy greens
Event: Trip up Hazy Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Paw-paw fruit on the tree
Event: Visit to Judy Griffy's paw-paw tree. 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
Coal river. Randy Sprouse's seng hoe. Southern West Virginia.
Randy commented that the squeaking noise made by the head when he twists it acts as a turkey call.
Mary Jarrell and Mary Hufford on the four-wheeler
Event: Four-wheeling and berry-picking at the head of Rock Creek.
Coal river. Dennis Price, Arnett, WV. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Visit with Wesley and Misty Scarbrough. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Molly moocher. Southern West Vir...
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dave Bailey telling a story at lunch
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Joe Williams ginsenging. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Ginseng Hunting. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ben Burnside speaking with Mary Hufford in a ramp patch located on a s...
Event: Visit with Ben Burnside. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Black walnut pumpkin roll cake made by Mae Bongalis
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shelby Cantley Estep (Left), Natalie and Carla Pettry: three generati...
Event: Three generations of ginseng hunters. 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
A "boss" molly moocher found on Hazy Creek by Dave Bailey
David Bailey found this huge molly moocher across from the Wolf Pen Hollow. Charles Bradford wrote the following account of and incident that happened near Wolf Pen Hollow, as he heard it from his mother, Sylvi... More
Woody Boggs and Dave Bailey molly mooching
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Randy's Recycling, Peytona, WV. Southern West Virginia.
People who harvest wild botanicals from the woods can sell their wares to local brokers like Randy Halstead, the proprietor of Randy's Recycling in Peytona, West Virginia. Halstead annually brokers hundreds of ... More
Joe Williams digging a ginseng root
Event: Ginseng Hunting. 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.
Randy Halstead, ginseng buyer, discussing the qualities that make gins...
People who harvest wild botanicals from the woods can sell their wares to local brokers like Randy Halstead, the proprietor of Randy's Recycling in Peytona, West Virginia. Halstead annually brokers hundreds of ... More
Ginseng and goldenseal in the fenced enclosure
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Transplanted cultivated ginseng in a small fenced plot
Picryl description: Public domain image of a plant, botany, botanical illustration, botany, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Coal river. Close-up of Tiffany's catch. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Fishing and Seining for Hellgrammites. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dave Bailey with pole and bucket for fishing
Event: Fishing and Seining for Hellgrammites. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Sally Webb picking wineberries. Southern West Virginia.
Event: A visit with Sally Webb. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Woody Boggs surveying rusting machinery, probably from the coal mines
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dave Bailey and Woody Boggs looking for molly moochers
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Dave Bailey with molly moocher. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Jarrell and her son picking early blackberries during a four-whee...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Molly moocher. Southern West Vir...
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Unripened wineberries. Southern ...
Event: A visit with Sally Webb. Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jerusalem artichoke blooms - Public domain portrait drawing
Event: Gail Ballard's garden in Pettry Bottom. Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Close-up of molly moochers. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Molly mooching on Lillybrook Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joe, age 11, and Kay Miller molly mooching en route to Ben Burnside's ...
Event: Molly mooching with Kay Miller and Joe. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Jarrell and her son filling four-wheeler with gas at Lloyd's Conv...
Event: Four-wheeling and berry-picking at the head of Rock Creek.
Coal river. Dave Bailey with molly moocher. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A pickup truck loaded with Nine Bark on Bolt Mountain
Public domain image of a truck, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description