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Maple Sticky Buns
Photo Source: MaryJane’s Cast Iron Kitchen
Casting a spell
with cast iron
Laura Dean Bennett
Staff Writer
very once in a while,
when I’m grazing
through the stacks at
McClintic Library, I come
across a book that casts a
spell on me and demands
that I spend morethan a lit-
tle time with it.
MaryJane’s Cast Iron
Kitchen, by MaryJane But—
ters, is such a book.
This marvelous cook-
book contains more than
200 cast iron cookery
recipes, each depicted in
stunning color photogra-
phy, and it’s also the clos-
est thing I’ve ever come
across to a cast iron cook-
ware bible.
Anyone who loves their
cast iron cookware and is
casting about for a fresh
batch of cast iron recipes,
will love this book.
Or,- you’re'a cast iron,
neophyte ,‘j'u’ast'n'ow considl’
ering casting your lot with
cast iron, MaryJane ’5 Cast-
Iron Kitchen will give you
everything you need to be-
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There are answers to
common questions about
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iron, and a helpful photo-
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It covers a lot of cast iron
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Suzanne Stewart
Staff Writer
hen you think
about the music of
West Virginia, the
instruments that come to
mind are usually stringed ——
guitars, banjos and fiddles -
but there’s a not-so—new kid
that has found its way to the
mountains. That instrument
is the handpan.
The handpan is in the steel
drum family — a smaller in-
strument with a smoother
sound than its fellow steel
drums.
The father of modern steel
drums, Ellie Mannette,
moved from Trinidad to
America in 1967, and after
traveling the country starting
steel drum bands, he found
himself in Morgantown,
where he founded the West
Virginia University steel
drum program and his own
store, Mannette’s Steel
Drums.
Mannette was also teach-
ing his trade at WVU, and
that is where April Moncrief,
now of Slaty Fork, was first
introduced to the instrument
that would lead her to found
her own handpan business.
“I learned from Ellie Man-
nette,” she said. “He came
from Trinidad, and he went
to New York City. He was
going out to all these little
boroughs and he was setting
up steel bands for their inner
city youth, teaching them as
a way to enrich their lives.
“Then, West Virginia Uni-
versity called him and said,
‘would you like to be an
artist in residence for a se-
mester,’ and he said ‘yes,’”
she continued. “He started
the WVU Steel Band and the
University tuning project,
and he started teaching stu—
dents how to build and tune
steel drums.” ’
Moncrief wanted a steel
drum, but didn’t have the
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APRIL MONCRIEF, 0F Slaty Fork, tests a completed handpan in her studio near
her
home. Moncrief moved to Pocahontas County in 2010 and has created Adinkra
Han-
pans with her business partner, Daniel Maples, a renowned handpan musician.
S.
Stewart photo
money to buy one, so she
worked off the price as a
tuner at Mannette’s store and
realized she found her call-
ing.
“It was great,” she said.
“Unconventional. I actually
went to school to be a forest
ranger, but I guess rarely do
you ever do what you went
to school for.”
Moncrief continued to
work in Morgantown.as a
tuner and builder .of steel
drums until 2010, when she
moved to Pocahontas
County.
“We moved here, and I
was still working for Man-
nette’s from a long distance
and another company had
called us to see if we would
be interested in contracting
tuning work for handpans,”
she said. “That was some-
thing new for me, but I was
like, ‘I’ll give it a
After a few years of con-
tract work, Moncrief con-
nected with handpan musi-
cian Daniel Waples and the
licensed Insured
License #2226-1961 Since
pair created Adinkra Hand-
pans, a business in which
they make, tune and sell
handpans.
“It took us a couple of
years to get it together,” she
said. “He’s originally from
London, but he travels the
world playing them. He was
bringing me some tech-
niques from builders in Eu-
rope.”
Once the business began
to grow, Moncrief’s partner,
Jorge Montemayor, built a
larger workspace for her,
complete with a kiln, custom
drier and custom tuning sta-
tion.
“I was in a little ten by ten
shed up behind the house
doing this,” she said, laugh-
ing. “So he built this. He’s
got his man side and his man
cave and he built [a space]
for me.”
As for the handpans, there
is a unique and specific
process to follow, and it be-
gins with the steel.
“The steel we get is from
France,” she said. “You want
relatively low carbon steel so
when you go to tune it, it
doesn’t break and crack
— I’ve had that happen. It’s
hard to tune if it’s really high
carbon.”
Moncrief uses stencils to
map out where the dimples
are pressed into the rounded
pan top. Then, she uses dies
and a 40-ton press to create
the dimples.
“After I do that, I put them
in the kiln and heat them to
about five hundred degrees,”
she said. “It makes a pretty
blue color on them for the
finish and it hardens it a lit-
tle. It makes it a little easier
for me to use.”
Next, the handpan top
goes into a custom—made
round clamp where she can
tune each dimple with a cer-
tain note. ‘
“There’s a guy in Lynch—
burg who made it for me,”
she said of the piece of
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