by Helen Bradfield Shambaugh
Editor’s note: This article was published originally in the Winter 2003 issue of Goldenseal: West Virginia’s magazine of traditional life. It is reprinted here with the permission of Goldenseal and the author.
Shambaugh grew up in the community of Woodrow. She first met Patty Norton while Norton was working as a school nurse in Paw Paw and the author was a student there. The two met again during the 1950’s…






