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["Tony Coffman is the owner of Coffmans Metals, LLC in Birch River, West Virginia, which specializing in the buying and selling of ginseng and other wild herbs and roots, scrap metal, recyclables, and furs. A licensed ginseng dealer, Coffman began digging ginseng when he was a teenager for extra pocket money. Coffman inherited the business in 1987 from his grandfather Guy Coffman.These photos and related interviews were conducted in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festivals 2020 festival program on American ginseng. Learn more: https://festival.si.edu/blog/west-virginia-ginseng-trade"]

1. Dried goldenseal harvested in West Virginia and sold to Coffman's Metals in Birch River

Identifier:
4224.CoffmansMetalsGinseng.Photo.006.9.15.19
Title:
Dried goldenseal harvested in West Virginia and sold to Coffman's Metals in Birch River
Date:
2019-09-15
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
American ginseng industry and Forage plants
Location:
Birch River (W. Va.) and Hardy County (W. Va.)
["On February 25, 2020, Amy Loughs (b. 1975, Murray, Kentucky) Hardy County ESOL class in Moorefield hosted an Ethiopian/Eritrean coffee ceremony and potluck. Students, who are of Haitian, Burmese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, and Puerto Rican dissent brought in food dishes from their respective cultural traditions, to share with the class and state folklorist Emily Hilliard. The majority of the ESOL students work at Pilgrims Pride chicken plant in Moorefield. Dishes students brought to class include Mohinga, a Burmese soup with chili; a Burmese tea leaf salad; and Yuzana, a Burmese pickled tea; Ethiopian Doro Wat; Puerto Rican bread pudding; Haitian fried pork with gratin; and Himbasha, an Ethiopian bread with black sesame seeds or black cumin."]

2. Aster, an Eritrean immigrant and student in the Hardy County ESOL class, demonstrates an Eritrean coffee ceremony

Identifier:
4224.MoorefieldESOL.Photo.001.2.25.20
Title:
Aster, an Eritrean immigrant and student in the Hardy County ESOL class, demonstrates an Eritrean coffee ceremony
Date:
2020-02-25
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Food habits, foodways, Coffee, Cooking, Eritrean, and Eritreans--United States
Location:
Hardy County (W. Va.) and Moorefield (W. Va.)