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The State Folklorist’s Notebook: “If You want to be a part of Huntington, you need to eat at Jim’s!”

The State Folklorist’s Notebook is a regular column written by state folklorist Emily Hilliard for Goldenseal magazine. This article appears in the Summer 2019 issue.

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Watch the intro to "Turkish Cuisine and Seed Keeping," the 4th and final film in our Homegrown Foodways in #WestVirginia series, featuring the owner of @twoseedsinapod and teaching artist in seedsaving in our 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, Mehmet Öztan, as he speaks about food as a point of connection to both his new home in rural West Virginia and his home country of Turkey.

Watch the intro to "Ravioli and Sauce," the 3rd film in our Homegrown Foodways in #WestVirginia series, featuring 93-year-old son of Italian immigrants, farmer, square dance caller, and home cook Lou Maiuri as he reflects on food as a sensory memory connecting him to his mother and other family members who have since passed.

Join us tomorrow, September 15th at noon EST on the American Folklife Center's Facebook page, for the premieres of the 3rd and 4th films in the Homegrown Foodways in #WestVirginia series, featuring Lou Maiuri on Ravioli and Sauce & Mehmet Öztan on Turkish Cuisine and Seed Keeping.

Cool job alert! The West Virginia Folklife Program at @wvhumanities seeks a new state folklorist!

Watch the intro to "Korean Heritage and Kimchi," the second film in our Homegrown Foodways in #WestVirginia series, featuring farmer, forager, and cook Marlyn McClendon (@appalasian) on exploring her Korean and Appalachian identities through food.

We're thrilled to announce that our digital archives collection, The West Virginia Folklife Collection, is now accessible online through @wvulibraries. The collection may be viewed via the link in our profile.

Join us online this evening starting at 7pm for the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum's Blair Centennial #Blair100 kick-off event, featuring blues harmonica player Phil Wiggins, a 2017 @neaarts National Heritage Fellow, and West Virginia folklorist and musician Gerry Milnes, songwriter & 3rd-generation harmony singer from the coal fields of West Virginia Heather Hannah @just_heatherly, and Appalachian ballad singer, Saro-Lynch Thomason @song_speak_saro.

Join us tomorrow, September 1 at noon EST on the American Folklife Center's Facebook page, for the premiere of the 2nd film in the Homegrown Foodways in #WestVirginia series, featuring Marlyn McClendon on Korean heritage and kimchi.

When Sterling Ball got back to his hometown of Parkersburg, #WestVirginia after being discharged from the U.S. Army in 1971, his plan was to buy a motorcycle, grow his hair long, move to California, and become a hippie. He got to step one, but because he had purchased his bike through a loan from the credit union of his employer, Kroger, he needed to keep his job to make his payments. So instead of becoming a hippie, Sterling became a union organizer.

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