West Virginia Agriculture Heritage Contest
Every family has stories and photos depicting farm life from earlier generations. These stories and photos are sentimental and interesting to our family but they are also historical "treasures" for our entire state. To help preserve our state's agriculture heritage, the West Virginia FFA Association is partnered with the Collaborative for the 21st Century Appalachia to conduct two separate agriculture history contests, essay and photography. The following photos were submitted by various high school FFA members across the state of West Virginia.
Their task: Find, scan and submit for consideration a photo depicting life on a farm at least 20 years ago. Each photo must be accompanied with a narrative and location.
Below are the list of winners and their photographs (click on the links below)
1st Place: Ian Dransfield, Hay Crew
Monroe County, FFA
2nd Place: Sara Hunt, Apple Ladies
Mineral County FFA
3rd Place: Matthew Morrison, Molassess Making, Woman with Press and Horse
Cabell Midland FFA
4th Place: Brent Ebert, Wonda Lee Muntzing bottle feeding a lamb 1940
Mineral County FFA
Honorable Mention
Daniel Copeland: Grandpa and Foxhounds
Kathy Snodgrass: Nelson and Linda
More Entries>>
Special Thanks
Every initiative of this scope requires a team effort:
Every family has stories and photos depicting farm life from earlier generations. These stories and photos are sentimental and interesting to our family but they are also historical "treasures" for our entire state. To help preserve our state's agriculture heritage, the West Virginia FFA Association is partnered with the Collaborative for the 21st Century Appalachia to conduct two separate agriculture history contests, essay and photography. The following photos were submitted by various high school FFA members across the state of West Virginia.
Their task: Find, scan and submit for consideration a photo depicting life on a farm at least 20 years ago. Each photo must be accompanied with a narrative and location.
Below are the list of winners and their photographs (click on the links below)
1st Place: Ian Dransfield, Hay Crew
Monroe County, FFA
2nd Place: Sara Hunt, Apple Ladies
Mineral County FFA
3rd Place: Matthew Morrison, Molassess Making, Woman with Press and Horse
Cabell Midland FFA
4th Place: Brent Ebert, Wonda Lee Muntzing bottle feeding a lamb 1940
Mineral County FFA
Honorable Mention
Daniel Copeland: Grandpa and Foxhounds
Kathy Snodgrass: Nelson and Linda
More Entries>>
Special Thanks
Every initiative of this scope requires a team effort:
- W.E.R. Byrne was a fisherman and a story teller. In fact because of his stories about the Elk River, and the people along its banks, first published serially in West Virginia's Wildlife Magazine and subsequently encapsulated in the book, Tales of the Elk, he has come to be regarded as one of West Virginia’s most famous story tellers. His great-grand daughter, Suzanne Thorniley, of Charleston, West Virginia, a long time major supporter of Collaborative for the 21st Century Appalachia, shares her grandfather’s passion for ensuring that the charm and lore of days now gone, not be allowed to be forgotten. The idea of fostering FFA student's efforts to re-capture those times, prompted her support for this contest and in his memory, Suzanne has generously funded the cash awards for the FFA winners.
- Annie Seay, whose son Sam was in the FFA, suggested the contest as a means of tying the next generation of West Virginia’s agriculturalists into Collaborative for the 21st Century’s mission of preserving the best of our Appalachian heritage.
- Jason Hughes, Co-Coordinator for West Virginia Department of Education’s Agricultural Division, spread the word to teachers across the state and coordinated all the details.
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