Patrons socializing at the Silver Fox Tavern
The tavern, which closed in the mid-'90s, was owned and operated by Richard Combs and Corina Walker. Event: Socializing at the Silver Fox Tavern.
Stone marker near the family cemetery that reads: "John 3:16 Isa 2:2"
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Vivian Jarrell's canned goods, produced from her garden, including tom...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Elbert Pettry, Peachtree Creek. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Trading tales and reminiscing on Peachtree Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Morning glories growing in Ben Burnside's cornfield
Picryl description: Public domain image of a flower, blooming, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mary Jarrell and her son looking for blackberries at the head of Rock ...
The Shovel Cut was created by earth moving machinery mining at the head of Rock Creek in the 1970s.
Mixed mesophytic cove topography in spring
Event: Trip to the Julie Hollow. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Flynn playing an electronic bowling game at the Sundial Tavern
Event: Saturday night at the Sundial Tavern. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tiffany, granddaughter of the Gunnoe's neighbors, holding tomatoes fro...
Event: Visit with Dewey and Dorothy Gunnoe. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Everett Lilly performing with John Hamrick
Event: Fourth of July on Kayford Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of crowd, bride and groom, and car painted with "Just Married" on...
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
Patrons on the ramp house porch (L-R): Mary Hufford, John Flynn, Mae ...
Event: Pine Knob Ramp Supper on Drews Creek (an annual event).
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
Dogwoods (Cornus florida) blooming on Coal River
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Traffic rounding Birchton Curve, aka "Deadman's Curve"
Event: Driving Route 3. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patrons socializing at the Silver Fox Tavern
The tavern, which closed in the mid-'90s, was owned and operated by Richard Combs and Corina Walker. Event: Socializing at the Silver Fox Tavern.
Freshly cleaned and decorated graves at Graveyard Hill
Event: Memorial Day Weekend on Graveyard Hill. "Graveyard Hill is the site of an African American cemetery on the hillside above the sludge pond ("coal refuse impoundment") now filling Shumate's Branch. Each ye... More
Coal river. Ivan Jarrell's garden. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Visit to Ivan Jarrell's garden. Ivan Jarrell's garden is located at the home of his parents, Bruce and Vivian Jarrell, on Dry Creek.
Ray Cottrell and Randy Sprouse (in hat) seine for hellgrammites in the...
Event: Seining for hellgrammites on Coal River. Seining is a technique which involves raising rocks and allowing the water to carry what's underneath into the net held downstream. Hellgramites, also known as gr... More
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Ben Burnside. Southern West Virg...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Montcoal at twilight, from Cigar Hill
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Tanners Mollett. Southern West V...
Event: Memorial Day Weekend on Graveyard Hill. "Graveyard Hill is the site of an African American cemetery on the hillside above the sludge pond ("coal refuse impoundment") now filling Shumate's Branch. Each ye... More
Lyntha Eiler photographing cabbages in Ivan Jarrell's garden
Event: Visit to Ivan Jarrell's garden. Ivan Jarrell's garden is located at his parents' home.
Roosevelt Holstein, Larry Gibson, and Donald Pritt view the mountainto...
These men are officers in the Stanley Heirs Foundation: Roosevelt Holsten, vice president; Larry Gibson, president; and Donald Pritt, secretary. Event: Fourth of July celebration on Kayford Mountain.
Coal river. Ben Burnside raking his garden. Southern West Virginia.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Crystal Pettry and Bruce Ramsey's wedding ceremony in the restaurant a...
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
Grave markers in overgrown cemetery near Route 3 at Birchton Curve
Event: Visit to cemetery at Birchton Curve. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ben Burnside's house, as seen from the far end of his garden
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Coal river. Ben Burnside's mailbox. Southern West Virginia.
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Dogwoods (Cornus florida) in bloom. Southern West Virginia...
Event: Mixed Mesophytic Forest Topography in Spring. Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Turner Family rehearsing gospel music in the Delbert Chapel
Event: Turner family's weekly rehearsal of Gospel music. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pink Lady Slipper (Cypripedium acaule), aka "Whipporwill" and "Pink Mo...
Event: Spring flora on Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patrons socializing at the Silver Fox Tavern
The tavern, which closed in the mid-'90s, was owned and operated by Richard Combs and Corina Walker. Event: Socializing at the Silver Fox Tavern.
The Turner Family rehearsing gospel music in the Delbert Chapel
Event: Turner family's weekly rehearsal of Gospel music. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kenny and Martha Pettry, proprietors of the Sundial Tavern until 1999,...
Event: Saturday night at the Sundial Tavern. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Turner Family rehearsing gospel music in the Delbert Chapel
Event: Turner family's weekly rehearsal of Gospel music. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, 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.
Conversation in the parking lot of the Stanley Heirs Park
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Christmas lighting display at a home near the bridge to Edwight in Nao...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Rowland Land Company truck. Southern West Virginia.
The Rowland Land Company, which incorporated in the early 1900s, owns approximately 55,000 acres of land surrounding the Marsh and Clear Forks of the Big Coal River. Event: Visit to Lloyd's Convenient.
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
Orange azalea, a.k.a. "Honeysuckle" (Rhododendron calendulaceum) in bl...
Event: Spring flora on Coal River. Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, 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
The Turner Family rehearsing gospel music in the Delbert Chapel
Event: Turner family's weekly rehearsal of Gospel music. Debbie (Dickens) Turner, Benny Turner (Debbie's husband), Edna Turner (mother of Benny and Judy), Judy (Turner) Griffy, Danny Gilfillen (on bass), Marvin... More
Late afternoon view of Julie Hollow behind John Flynn's home, the form...
Event: Trip to the Julie Hollow. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Red Fraker, on Kayford Mountain. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Memorial Day Weekend. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The picnic pavilion at the Stanley Heirs Park with a newly built stage...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Scenes from the parking lot at Stanley Heirs Park on the Fourth of Jul...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Dewey Gunnoe surveying his vegetable garden
Event: Visit with Dewey and Dorothy Gunnoe. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Camping and fishing on Coal River
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Elbert Pettry and Dave Bailey swapping stories at the Pettry home
Event: Trading tales and reminiscing on Peachtree Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of crowd, bride and groom, and car painted with "Just Married" on...
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
Portion of Bruce Jarrell's collection of old-fashioned and home-made ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Martha Pettry serving and joking with patrons at the Sundial Tavern
Event: Saturday night at the Sundial Tavern. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Eunice, West Virginia, with a strip mine on the hillside in the backgr...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Patrons socializing at the Silver Fox Tavern
The tavern, which closed in the mid-'90s, was owned and operated by Richard Combs and Corina Walker. Event: Socializing at the Silver Fox Tavern.
Patrons socializing at the Sundial Tavern
Event: Saturday night at the Sundial Tavern. Public domain photograph of a restaurant, tavern interior, food, drinks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Flynn's tombstone, bearing the epitaph he requested: "God rest h...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Larry Gibson speaking with Mary Hufford
Event: Fourth of July on Kayford Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Daniel Lilly playing at the Fourth of July celebration on Kayford Moun...
Event: Fourth of July on Kayford Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ray Cottrell and Randy Sprouse (in hat) seine for hellgrammites in the...
Event: Seining for hellgrammites on Coal River. Seining is a technique which involves raising rocks and allowing the water to carry what's underneath into the net held downstream. Hellgramites, also known as gr... More
Combination spoon and fork in Bruce Jarrell's collection of old-fashio...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Nutting stone with black walnut (Nigra juglans)
Except for the squirrel call, Ray Cottrell found all of these artifacts on the ground while out walking in the mountains around Clear Fork and Marsh Fork. Event: Ray Cottrell's collection of "Indian Tools and W... More
View of crowd, bride and groom, and car painted with "Just Married" on...
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
Ray Cottrell and Randy Sprouse (in hat) seine for hellgrammites in the...
Event: Seining for hellgrammites on Coal River. Seining is a technique which involves raising rocks and allowing the water to carry what's underneath into the net held downstream. Hellgramites, also known as gr... More
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
Mae Bongalis and John Flynn, at the 1995 Ramp Supper
Event: The 1995 Pine Knob Ramp Supper on Drews Creek. 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
"Aunt" Eva Burnside with her grandson, Dean Bradford
Event: Pine Knob Ramp Supper on Drews Creek (an annual event).
The Turner Family rehearsing gospel music in the Delbert Chapel
Event: Turner family's weekly rehearsal of Gospel music. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Horseshoe pitching. Southern Wes...
Event: Horseshoe pitching with John Bowman. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, 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
Dogwoods (Cornus florida) and redbuds (Cercis canadensis) a.k.a. "Juda...
Event: Mixed Mesophytic Forest Topography in Spring. Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fourth of July Celebration at Stanley Heirs Park on Kayford Mountain
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Unidentified woman and child riding four-wheeler
Event: Memorial Day Weekend. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scenes from the parking lot at Stanley Heirs Park on the Fourth of Jul...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Information about mountaintop removal and the role of Larry Gibson (on...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Drawknife in Bruce Jarrell's collection of old-fashioned and home-made...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ben Burnside picking tomatoes in his garden
Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Coal river. John Flynn. Southern West Virginia.
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mixed mesophytic cove topography in spring
Event: Trip to the Julie Hollow. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of the Julie Hollow, with rotting chestnut (Castanea dentata) log...
Event: Mixed Mesophytic Forest Topography in Spring. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Orange azalea, a.k.a. "Honeysuckle" (Rhododendron calendulaceum) in bl...
Event: Spring flora on Coal River. Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Scenes from the parking lot at Stanley Heirs Park on the Fourth of Jul...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
An item from Bruce Jarrell's collection of old-fashioned and home-made...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Dahlias in Ben Burnside's garden. Southern West Virginia.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a flower, blooming, flowering, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Randy Sprouse fishing in Coal River at the mouth of Hazy Creek
Event: Fishing for smallmouth bass on Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Butter form in Bruce Jarrell's collection of old-fashioned and home-ma...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Assortment of "Indian Tools and Weapons" that Ray Cottrell has collect...
Except for the squirrel call, Ray Cottrell found all of these artifacts on the ground while out walking in the mountains around Clear Fork and Marsh Fork. Event: Ray Cottrell's collection of "Indian Tools and W... More
Joe Aliff's informal museum of tree disease: an assemblage of trunks,...
"Joe Aliff's observations of symptoms of forest decline over a twenty-year period provided some of the impetus for the formation of the Lucy Braun Association for the Mixed Mesophytic Forest, and the Appalachia... More
Mae Bongalis at the Pine Knob Ramp Supper
Event: Pine Knob Ramp Supper on Drews Creek (an annual event).
Men and women preparing food (ramps, potatoes, and bacon) on the night...
Event: Preparations in the Ramp House on the eve of the annual Ramp Supper.
Dogwoods (Cornus florida) blooming on Coal River
Event: Scenes around Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. American Folklife Center: Spring house. Southern West Virg...
Event: Mixed Mesophytic Forest Topography in Spring. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Mary Hufford interviewing Felix Mollett. Southern West Vir...
Event: Memorial Day Weekend on Graveyard Hill. "Graveyard Hill is the site of an African American cemetery on the hillside above the sludge pond ("coal refuse impoundment") now filling Shumate's Branch. Each ye... More
Coal river. Mary Hufford interviewing Everett Lilly. Southern West Vir...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More