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["Marion Harless of Kerens led a 2018 apprenticeship in green traditions with Kara Vaneck of Weston as part of the 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Harless is a co-founder of the Mountain State Organic Growers and Buyers Association and the West Virginia Herb Association, and has taught widely on medicinal herbs, edible landscaping, and native plants. Vaneck is the owner of Smoke Camp Crafts and has served as vice president and treasurer of the West Virginia Herb Association.Read our feature on Harless apprenticeship with Vaneck here: https://wvfolklife.org/2018/12/20/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-marion-harless-kara-vaneck-green-traditions/Read Emily Hilliards article on Marion Harless here and in the Spring 2019 issue of Goldenseal Magazine: https://wvfolklife.org/2019/03/22/the-state-folklorists-notebook-people-need-to-know-about-plants-herbarist-marion-harless/"]%

25. White lobelia in Marion Harless' garden in Kerens, West Virginia

Identifier:
4224.HarlessMarionVaneckKara.Photo.011.8.28.18
Title:
White lobelia in Marion Harless' garden in Kerens, West Virginia
Date:
2018-08-18
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Herb gardening, Herbalists, Apprenticeship programs, Gardening
Location:
Randolph County (W. Va.)
["Marion Harless of Kerens led a 2018 apprenticeship in green traditions with Kara Vaneck of Weston as part of the 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Harless is a co-founder of the Mountain State Organic Growers and Buyers Association and the West Virginia Herb Association, and has taught widely on medicinal herbs, edible landscaping, and native plants. Vaneck is the owner of Smoke Camp Crafts and has served as vice president and treasurer of the West Virginia Herb Association.Read our feature on Harless apprenticeship with Vaneck here: https://wvfolklife.org/2018/12/20/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-marion-harless-kara-vaneck-green-traditions/Read Emily Hilliards article on Marion Harless here and in the Spring 2019 issue of Goldenseal Magazine: https://wvfolklife.org/2019/03/22/the-state-folklorists-notebook-people-need-to-know-about-plants-herbarist-marion-harless/"]%

26. Blue lobelia in Marion Harless' garden in Kerens, West Virginia

Identifier:
4224.HarlessMarionVaneckKara.Photo.012.8.28.18
Title:
Blue lobelia in Marion Harless' garden in Kerens, West Virginia
Date:
2018-08-28
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Herbalists, Gardening, Apprenticeship programs, Herb gardening
Location:
Randolph County (W. Va.)
["Doug Van Gundy of Elkins led an apprenticeship in old-time fiddle of the Greenbrier Valley with Annie Stroud of Charleston as part of the 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Doug Van Gundy is an eighth-generation West Virginian who learned old-time fiddle from Greenbrier County fiddler Mose Coffman through the 1993 Augusta Heritage Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. See our feature on Van Gundys apprenticeship with Stroud here: https://wvfolklife.org/2019/01/23/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-doug-van-gundy-annie-stroud-old-time-fiddling-of-the-greenbrier-valley/"]%

27. Artist profile of Doug Van Gundy

Identifier:
4224.VanGundyDoug.ArtistProfile.11.9.18
Title:
Artist profile of Doug Van Gundy
Date:
2018-11-09
Creator:
Van Gundy, Doug
Subject:
Fiddling, Folk music--West Virginia, Fiddle tunes, Greenbrier River Valley (W. Va.), Apprenticeship programs
Location:
Greenbrier River Valley (W. Va.), Randolph County (W. Va.), Elkins (W. Va.)