Thanks to ...

Susan Church, who inspired this project in the beginning, by talking about the Weston State Hospital and getting me interested in the hospital.

All the wonderful volunteers (especially Betty Ann and Jill) at the Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendents library, for allowing me to interview people there and for helping me get information and pictures.

All the people who talked to me or e-mailed me about their stories and memories. This includes Lucy Ann West and her father, Damon West, Marlene, Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker, Matt Turner, Naomi Turner, Hubert Foster, Cary Williams, Barb Palmer, Julia Spelsburg, Nettie Gregory, Chip Turner, Nancy Bauman, Jim Jendro, Ethel Nielsen, Darrell Groves, and Alberta Sue Drummond Keene. I couldn't have done it without you. Thanks for preserving history!

All the friendly and helpful people at Appalachian Glass for being so kind and helping me find people to interview.

The Weston Democrat newspaper, for publishing my story, and the radio station for giving me more publicity.

And, or course, a tremendous amount of thanks goes to my parents, my mom for driving me all the way to West Virginia and helping me that entire week, and my dad for helping me with the website designing. Also thank you mom and dad for supporting me and forcing me to work hard and meet my goal all the way through.

Thank you to everyone, I couldn't have done it alone.

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