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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.)
Identifier:
4224.FalconeJon.ArtistBio.10.16.20
Title:
Artist profile of Jon Falcone
Date:
2020-10-16
Creator:
Falcone, Jon
Subject:
Herbs--Utilization, Herb gardening, Apprenticeship programs, Herbalists, Herbs--Therapeutic use, Forage plants, Traditional medicine, and Herb products
Location:
Hardy County (W. Va.)
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Identifier:
4224.HobbieLeenieFalconeJon.AudioInt.10.20.20.wav
Title:
Oral history of Leenie Hobbie and Jon Falcone
Date:
2020-10-20
Creator:
Hobbie, Leenie and Falcone, Jon
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Herbalists, Apprenticeship programs, Herb products, COVID-19 (Disease), Gardening, Herb gardening, Forage plants, Herbs--Therapeutic use, and Herbs--Utilization
Location:
Hardy County (W. Va.), Charleston (W. Va.), and Hampshire County (W. Va.)
Identifier:
4224.HobbieLeenieFalconeJon.IntTranscript.10.20.20
Title:
Transcript of oral history of Leenie Hobbie and Jon Falcone
Date:
2020-10-20
Creator:
Hobbie, Leenie and Falcone, Jon
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Herb products, Forage plants, Gardening, COVID-19 (Disease), Herbs--Therapeutic use, Herbs--Utilization, Apprenticeship programs, Herbalists, and Herb gardening
Location:
Hampshire County (W. Va.), Hardy County (W. Va.), and Charleston (W. Va.)
Identifier:
4224.HobbieLeenieFalconeJon.Video.001.2.19.21.mp4
Title:
Herbalist Leenie Hobbie & apprentice Jon Falcone discuss their West Virginia Folklife traditional Appalachian herbalism apprenticeship, which took place during COVID-19
Date:
2021-02-19
Creator:
Hobbie, Leenie and Falcone, Jon
Subject:
Traditional medicine, Herb products, Herbalists, Herb gardening, COVID-19 (Disease), Apprenticeship programs, Herbs--Utilization, Forage plants, Herbs--Therapeutic use, foodways, and Gardening
Location:
Hardy County (W. Va.) and Hampshire County (W. Va.)
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Identifier:
4224.LoughAmy.AudioInt.001.2.25.20
Title:
Oral history of Amy Lough, 1 of 2
Date:
2020-02-25
Creator:
Lough, Amy
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Refugees, Moorefield (W. Va.), English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, and Chicken industry
Location:
Hardy County (W. Va.) and Moorefield (W. Va.)
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Identifier:
4224.LoughAmy.AudioInt.002.2.25.20
Title:
Oral history of Amy Lough, 2 of 2
Date:
2020-02-25
Creator:
Lough, Amy
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Chicken industry, Moorefield (W. Va.), English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, and Refugees
Location:
Moorefield (W. Va.) and Hardy County (W. Va.)
Identifier:
4224.LoughAmy.IntTranscript2.25.20
Title:
Transcript of oral history of Amy Lough
Date:
2020-02-25
Creator:
Lough, Amy
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Moorefield (W. Va.), Refugees, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, and Chicken industry
Location:
Hardy County (W. Va.) and Moorefield (W. Va.)
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.)
![["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"]](/thumb/4224CoffmansMetalsGinsengPhoto00691519 "Dried goldenseal harvested in West Virginia and sold to Coffman's Metals in Birch River")
![["Leenie Hobbie of Rio in Hampshire County and Jon Falcone of Lost River in Hardy County were participants in the 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Hobbie led an apprenticeship in traditional Appalachian herbalism Falcone. Falcone is a novice herbalist who hopes to apply his skills to his future homestead in West Virginia.See our feature on Falcones apprenticeship with Hobbie here: https://wvfolklife.org/2020/10/26/2020-folklife-apprenticeship-feature-leenie-hobbie-jon-falcone-traditional-appalachian-herbalism/The West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers up to a $3,000 stipend to West Virginia master traditional artists or tradition bearers working with qualified apprentices on a year-long in-depth apprenticeship in their cultural expression or traditional art form. These apprenticeships aim to facilitate the transmission of techniques and artistry of the forms, as well as their histories and traditions.The apprenticeship program grants are administered by the West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council in Charleston and are supported in part by an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. West Virginia Folklife is dedicated to the documentation, preservation, presentation, and support of West Virginias vibrant cultural heritage and living traditions."]](/thumb/4224FalconeJonArtistBio101620 "Artist profile of Jon Falcone")
![["Leenie Hobbie of Rio in Hampshire County and Jon Falcone of Lost River in Hardy County were participants in the 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Hobbie led an apprenticeship in traditional Appalachian herbalism Falcone. Hobbie has been a family herbalist for over 30 years, originally learning the tradition from her grandmother, who used both garden-grown and wild harvested plants at her home in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia. She has studied with acclaimed herbalists across the country and has taught the tradition within her community in Hampshire County. Falcone is a novice herbalist who hopes to apply his skills to his future homestead in West Virginia.See our feature on Falcones apprenticeship with Hobbie here: https://wvfolklife.org/2020/10/26/2020-folklife-apprenticeship-feature-leenie-hobbie-jon-falcone-traditional-appalachian-herbalism/The West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers up to a $3,000 stipend to West Virginia master traditional artists or tradition bearers working with qualified apprentices on a year-long in-depth apprenticeship in their cultural expression or traditional art form. These apprenticeships aim to facilitate the transmission of techniques and artistry of the forms, as well as their histories and traditions.The apprenticeship program grants are administered by the West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council in Charleston and are supported in part by an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. West Virginia Folklife is dedicated to the documentation, preservation, presentation, and support of West Virginias vibrant cultural heritage and living traditions."]](/thumb/4224HobbieLeenieFalconeJonIntTranscript102020 "Transcript of oral history of Leenie Hobbie and Jon Falcone")
![["Leenie Hobbie of Rio in Hampshire County and Jon Falcone of Lost River in Hardy County were participants in the 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Hobbie led an apprenticeship in traditional Appalachian herbalism with Falcone. Hobbie has been a family herbalist for over 30 years, originally learning the tradition from her grandmother, who used both garden-grown and wild harvested plants at her home in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia. She has studied with acclaimed herbalists across the country and has taught the tradition within her community in Hampshire County. Falcone is a novice herbalist who hopes to apply his skills to his future homestead in West Virginia.In this video, Hobbie & Falcone discuss the topic and scope of their apprenticeship and adaptations they made in order to continue to teach and learn during the COVID-19 pandemic. See our feature on Falcones apprenticeship with Hobbie here: https://wvfolklife.org/2020/10/26/202...The West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers up to a $3,000 stipend to West Virginia master traditional artists or tradition bearers working with qualified apprentices on a year-long in-depth apprenticeship in their cultural expression or traditional art form. These apprenticeships aim to facilitate the transmission of techniques and artistry of the forms, as well as their histories and traditions.The apprenticeship program grants are administered by the West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council in Charleston and are supported in part by an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. West Virginia Folklife is dedicated to the documentation, preservation, presentation, and support of West Virginias vibrant cultural heritage and living traditions."]](/thumb/4224HobbieLeenieFalconeJonVideo00121921mp4 "Herbalist Leenie Hobbie & apprentice Jon Falcone discuss their West Virginia Folklife traditional Appalachian herbalism apprenticeship, which took place during COVID-19")
![["Amy Lough (b. 1975, Murray, Kentucky) is an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teacher in Moorefield, in Hardy County, West Virginia. The majority of her students are Haitian, Burmese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants or refugees, most of whom work at Pilgrims Pride chicken plant in Moorefield. In this interview Lough speaks about her work as an ESOL teacher, her relationship as a mentor/ally to some of her students, the Moorefield community, and more."]](/thumb/4224LoughAmyIntTranscript22520 "Transcript of oral history of Amy Lough")
![["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."]](/thumb/4224MoorefieldESOLPhoto00122520 "Aster, an Eritrean immigrant and student in the Hardy County ESOL class, demonstrates an Eritrean coffee ceremony")