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["Appalachian Acres in Tallmansville, West Virginia, is owned and operated by Donnie Tenney and Lorelie Nicolas-Tenney. On September 28, 2017, they gathered with family and friends, including Nicolas-Tenney's mother Liz Villegas, seedsaver and farmer Charlie Radabaugh (of Radabaugh Farm in Buckhannon, WV), and seedsaver, farmer, and chef Mike Costello (of Lost Creek Farm in Lost Creek, WV), to harvest, process and boil sorghum into syrup."]%

61. Donnie Tenney, Mike Costello, and Charlie Radabaugh standing by Tenney's sorghum patch

Identifier:
4224.AppalachianAcresSorghum.Photo.063.9.28.17
Title:
Donnie Tenney, Mike Costello, and Charlie Radabaugh standing by Tenney's sorghum patch
Date:
2017-09-28
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Farms--West Virginia, Sorghum syrup, Food habits, foodways, Sorghum as food
Location:
Upshur County (W. Va.)
["Appalachian Acres in Tallmansville, West Virginia, is owned and operated by Donnie Tenney and Lorelie Nicolas-Tenney. On September 28, 2017, they gathered with family and friends, including Nicolas-Tenney's mother Liz Villegas, seedsaver and farmer Charlie Radabaugh (of Radabaugh Farm in Buckhannon, WV), and seedsaver, farmer, and chef Mike Costello (of Lost Creek Farm in Lost Creek, WV), to harvest, process and boil sorghum into syrup."]%

62. Liz Villegas feeds sorghum cane through press

Identifier:
4224.AppalachianAcresSorghum.Video.001.9.28.17
Title:
Liz Villegas feeds sorghum cane through press
Date:
2017-09-28
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Farms--West Virginia, Food habits, Sorghum syrup, foodways, Sorghum as food
Location:
Upshur County (W. Va.)
["Appalachian Acres in Tallmansville, West Virginia, is owned and operated by Donnie Tenney and Lorelie Nicolas-Tenney. On September 28, 2017, they gathered with family and friends, including Nicolas-Tenney's mother Liz Villegas, seedsaver and farmer Charlie Radabaugh (of Radabaugh Farm in Buckhannon, WV), and seedsaver, farmer, and chef Mike Costello (of Lost Creek Farm in Lost Creek, WV), to harvest, process and boil sorghum into syrup."]%

63. Liz Villegas feeds sorghum cane through sorghum press powered by a tractor engine

Identifier:
4224.AppalachianAcresSorghum.Video.002.9.28.17
Title:
Liz Villegas feeds sorghum cane through sorghum press powered by a tractor engine
Date:
2017-09-28
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Sorghum syrup, Food habits, foodways, Sorghum as food, Farms--West Virginia
Location:
Upshur County (W. Va.)
["Appalachian Acres in Tallmansville, West Virginia, is owned and operated by Donnie Tenney and Lorelie Nicolas-Tenney. On September 28, 2017, they gathered with family and friends, including Nicolas-Tenney's mother Liz Villegas, seedsaver and farmer Charlie Radabaugh (of Radabaugh Farm in Buckhannon, WV), and seedsaver, farmer, and chef Mike Costello (of Lost Creek Farm in Lost Creek, WV), to harvest, process and boil sorghum into syrup."]%

64. Charlie Radabaugh cuts tops off of sorghum stalks with a weedeater

Identifier:
4224.AppalachianAcresSorghum.Video.003.9.28.17
Title:
Charlie Radabaugh cuts tops off of sorghum stalks with a weedeater
Date:
2017-09-28
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Food habits, Sorghum syrup, Farms--West Virginia, Sorghum as food, foodways
Location:
Upshur County (W. Va.)
["Appalachian Acres in Tallmansville, West Virginia, is owned and operated by Donnie Tenney and Lorelie Nicolas-Tenney. On September 28, 2017, they gathered with family and friends, including Nicolas-Tenney's mother Liz Villegas, seedsaver and farmer Charlie Radabaugh (of Radabaugh Farm in Buckhannon, WV), and seedsaver, farmer, and chef Mike Costello (of Lost Creek Farm in Lost Creek, WV), to harvest, process and boil sorghum into syrup."]%

65. Liz Villegas feeds sorghum cane through press as sorghum juice drips into a bucket

Identifier:
4224.AppalachianAcresSorghum.Video.004.9.28.17
Title:
Liz Villegas feeds sorghum cane through press as sorghum juice drips into a bucket
Date:
2017-09-28
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Food habits, Farms--West Virginia, foodways, Sorghum syrup, Sorghum as food
Location:
Upshur County (W. Va.)
["Appalachian Acres in Tallmansville, West Virginia, is owned and operated by Donnie Tenney and Lorelie Nicolas-Tenney. On September 28, 2017, they gathered with family and friends, including Nicolas-Tenney's mother Liz Villegas, seedsaver and farmer Charlie Radabaugh (of Radabaugh Farm in Buckhannon, WV), and seedsaver, farmer, and chef Mike Costello (of Lost Creek Farm in Lost Creek, WV), to harvest, process and boil sorghum into syrup."]%

66. The sorghum press is powered by a John Deere tractor motor

Identifier:
4224.AppalachianAcresSorghum.Video.005.9.28.17
Title:
The sorghum press is powered by a John Deere tractor motor
Date:
2017-09-28
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Sorghum as food, Sorghum syrup, foodways, Food habits, Farms--West Virginia
Location:
Upshur County (W. Va.)
["Appalachian Acres in Tallmansville, West Virginia, is owned and operated by Donnie Tenney and Lorelie Nicolas-Tenney. On September 28, 2017, they gathered with family and friends, including Nicolas-Tenney's mother Liz Villegas, seedsaver and farmer Charlie Radabaugh (of Radabaugh Farm in Buckhannon, WV), and seedsaver, farmer, and chef Mike Costello (of Lost Creek Farm in Lost Creek, WV), to harvest, process and boil sorghum into syrup."]%

67. Liz Villegas feeds sorghum cane through press

Identifier:
4224.AppalachianAcresSorghum.Video.006.9.28.17
Title:
Liz Villegas feeds sorghum cane through press
Date:
2017-09-28
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
foodways, Sorghum as food, Food habits, Farms--West Virginia, Sorghum syrup
Location:
Upshur County (W. Va.)
["Appalachian Acres in Tallmansville, West Virginia, is owned and operated by Donnie Tenney and Lorelie Nicolas-Tenney. On September 28, 2017, they gathered with family and friends, including Nicolas-Tenney's mother Liz Villegas, seedsaver and farmer Charlie Radabaugh (of Radabaugh Farm in Buckhannon, WV), and seedsaver, farmer, and chef Mike Costello (of Lost Creek Farm in Lost Creek, WV), to harvest, process and boil sorghum into syrup."]%

68. Emily Hilliard feeds sorghum cane through the press

Identifier:
4224.AppalachianAcresSorghum.Video.007.9.28.17
Title:
Emily Hilliard feeds sorghum cane through the press
Date:
2017-09-28
Creator:
Costello, Mike
Subject:
Sorghum as food, Farms--West Virginia, Sorghum syrup, Food habits, foodways, Hilliard, Emily
Location:
Upshur County (W. Va.)
["Eleanor Betler was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia in 1940 and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She spent her summers in Helvetia at the farm of her maternal grandparents, James and Anna Merkli McNeal. She married Howard Bud Betler in 1961. The couple moved to a hilltop farm in Helvetia and raised four children. All the good cooks, many of them relatives of Mr. Betler taught Mrs. Betler about canning, preserving, cooking and baking. She was especially interested to learn the skills of butchering and preserving meat, and making sausage. Mrs. Betler loves the Swiss traditional baking but also Appalachian ways of some neighbors. She grinds her own flour for baking bread. At Fasnacht time she invites neighbors and friends to make the hosablatz and rosettes just to keep the tradition alive. She also preserves this history by collecting stories, music, and photographs for The Helvetia Archives.This interview is part of a series of interviews conducted with foodways practitioners in Helvetia, West Virginia, as part of the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Learn more: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]%

69. Audio slideshow of Eleanor Betler talking about making rosettes and hozablatz for Fasnacht in Helvetia

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Video.001.2.5.16
Title:
Audio slideshow of Eleanor Betler talking about making rosettes and hozablatz for Fasnacht in Helvetia
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Betler, Eleanor
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Folk dancing, Swiss, Doughnuts, Swiss American women, Food habits, foodways, Bakers, Square dance music--United States, Farms--West Virginia, Cooking, Swiss, Helvetia (W. Va.), Carnival masks, Carnival
Location:
Helvetia (W. Va.)
["Kathy Evans (b. July 8, 1962, Morgantown, WV) of Bruceton Mills and Margaret Bruning of Elkins are participants in the 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, in an apprenticeship titled, Sheep to Shawl: The Art of Raising Sheep and Creating Fiber Arts. Evans is a fifth-generation farmer and co-owner with her husband Reid of Evans Knob Farm in Preston County where she cultivates Certified Naturally Grown vegetables and raises sheep and poultry. She teaches and exhibits her fiber arts both in West Virginia and across the country and has been featured in Modern Farmer and Morgantown Magazine. Bruning grew up on a goat farm in upstate New York and has been a lifelong fiber artist. She and her husband David raise sheep at their homestead in Randolph County.Read a profile of Evans and Bruning on the West Virginia Folklife blog:https://wvfolklife.org/2020/11/04/2020-folklife-apprenticeship-feature-kathy-evans-margaret-bruning-sheep-to-shawl/Evans Knob Farm website: https://www.evansknobfarm.com/Poe Run Craft and Provisions: http://www.poerun.org/"]%

70. Artist profile of Margaret Bruning

Identifier:
4224.BruningMargaret.ArtistProfile.3.20.20
Title:
Artist profile of Margaret Bruning
Date:
2020-03-20
Creator:
Bruning, Margaret
Subject:
Sheep farming, Apprenticeship programs, Textile crafts, Farms--West Virginia, Weaving, Spinning-wheel, Spinning, Fiberwork, Woolen and worsted spinning
Location:
Randolph County (W. Va.), Elkins (W. Va.)
["Shirley A. Campbell (March 17,1949-January 10, 2021), a native of Pinch, West Virginia and a resident of Charleston, West Virginia, was a lifelong songwriter and poet. Two of her songs were recorded by Grandpa Jones and Ernest Tubb, respectively. Campbell married into the Reed-Campbell family of the bluegrass musician Ola Belle Reed, who was her mentor. Read Campbells obituary:Shirley A. Campbell, 71, of Charleston, WV, passed away suddenly at home, Sunday, January 10, 2021.Born March 17, 1949, in Pinch, WV, she was the daughter of the late Ruby Francis Jarrett and Jack White.She is survived by her two children, daughter Carlie Campbell of Charleston and son Jeremy Campbell of Elkton, MD; and pets.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her beloved dachshunds, Buckwheat and Alfalfa.Shirley studied at Oklahoma University and Marshall University. She was a nurse for 20 years, a dog groomer for 15 years, and a small business owner for approximately 10 years. She was a woman of endless talents, for many of which she received recognition. She was deeply devoted to animal welfare; throughout her life caring for ANY and ALL that she found in need.There will be a symphony of animal calls greeting her at the gates of heaven; and it will be glorious!As per her request, there will be no services. She asks that, in lieu of flowers, please donate to an animal charity in her honor.You may send condolences to the family at: www.barlowbonsall.com.Barlow Bonsall Funeral Home, Charleston, WV, has been entrusted with the arrangements."]%

71. Song/Poem "Old MacDonald," written by Shirley A. Campbell, October 3, 1985

Identifier:
4224.CampbellShirley.Writing.160.5.16.16
Title:
Song/Poem "Old MacDonald," written by Shirley A. Campbell, October 3, 1985
Date:
1985-10-03
Creator:
Campbell, Shirley A.
Subject:
Farms--West Virginia, Folk poetry, American, Working class--Songs and music, Women poets, American, Women lyricists
Location:
Charleston (W. Va.)

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72. Oral history of Carole Daniels and Ed Daniels, 1 of 3

Identifier:
4224.DanielsCaroleDanielsEd.AudioInt.001.9.3.19
Title:
Oral history of Carole Daniels and Ed Daniels, 1 of 3
Date:
2019-09-03
Creator:
Daniels, Ed, Daniels, Carole
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Herb products, Hemp farmers, Herbs--Therapeutic use, American ginseng industry, Herb gardening, Herbs--Utilization, Forage plants, Farms--West Virginia, Agroforestry, American ginseng
Location:
Randolph County (W. Va.)