WVFA Mountain State Forestry Winter 2021-22

F E A T U R E D N E W S www.wvfa.org Winter 2021–22 | West Virginia Forestry Association Mountain State Forestry 9 References “A Life’s History,” by Maggie Hammons Parker. Carl Fleishhauer and Alan Jabbour, editors, The Hammons Family: A Study of a West Virginia Family’s Traditions, (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1973), 42. ID #000374, View Looking West Showing Company Store, Ice House, Lumber Yard, and Houses, https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/000374. This project is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations do not necessarily represent those of the West Virginia Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding has been provided by the WVU Humanities Center. The Jam at Jerry’s Rock, Collected by Patrick Gainer from Patrick Starcher, Bolair, Webster County. ID #000045, Spruce Lumber Company Woods Crew at Camp, Cass, W. Va., c. 1910, https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/000045 . Photo credit, Elizabeth Satterfield. Central to the project’s research was the gathering of folk songs sung by and about loggers in the Allegheny Highlands. Sourced from the West Virginia and Regional History Center’s (WVRHC) folk music collections, lyrics, and audio of songs by and about loggers are featured in the exhibit’s exploration of life in the timber camps of the region. Visitors can explore the ways that loggers shared tales of bravery and comradery through songs like “The Jam at Jerry’s Rocks,” which was collected from Webster County: It was on a Sunday morning, In the springtime of the year, Our logs they piled up mountain high, We could not keep them clear. Songs from the pre-boom, boom, and post- boom periods are prominent in the exhibit, to provide context about the seismic shifts that happened as a result of industrial timber coming in to, and then ultimately, leaving the region. The exhibit, which opened at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park on June 5, 2021, will later move to the McClintic Branch of the Pocahontas County Library system from October–December 2021, and then to Davis and Elkins College. The museum exhibit, which explores the influence of the timber industry in song, will be accompanied by monthly cultural programming developed by Bailey, including events which highlight camp cooking, camp tools, and music. The museum exhibit and all cultural events are free and open to the general public.