This is the house in Gilmer County near Tanner, West Virginia, where the music and the chorus to the West Virginia Hills was written by the late H. E. Engle.
Lt. Col. F. K. Everest, Chief of Flight Test Operations Laboratory at Edwards Air Force base, Calif., and test pilot for the North American F-200, unofficially set a new world speed record of 754.96 miles per hour over a 15 kilometer course in an F-100 "Super Sabre" along the Salton Sea in California, 29, October 1953.'
'Cecil D. Eby, Jr., the biographer of Porte Crayon, is a native of Charles Town. He is a graduate of Shepherd College and holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Eby's specialty has been American literary history. His biography of David Hunter Strother appeared in 1960 under the title "Porte Crayon": the Life of David Hunter Strother. The journals of General Strother were edited and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1961 under the title, A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War. Selections from Strother's Virginia Illustrated, North Carolina Illustrated, A Winter in the South and the Dismal Swamp, along with "Porte Crayon's" inimitable illustrations appeared under the collective title, The Old South Illustrated, also published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1959. The author is presently on the faculty of Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va., where he is assistant professor of English.'
George Bird Evans and Kay Evans With 'Blue' and 'Ruff', Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
1950
Description:
Co-Authors, George Bird and Kay Evans pose with others members of their family, "Blue and "Ruff" while Kay holds a copy of the couples' first novel, "Death In Four Colors", published under the pen name, "Brandon Bird". The photograph was taken at their home, "Old Hemlock Farm" in Preston County, West Virginia.