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Mann is pictured with a bouquet of roses in front of the ship.
Karl Myers (1899 - 1951) from Tucker County, appointed as the first 'West Virginia's Poet Laureate' in 1927.
Myers was West Virginia Poet Laureate from 1927 to 1937. His remains are buried in an unknown grave in an IOOF cemetery near Elkins. The people of Tucker County, determined to honor Myers, raised money to place this monument near the Myers family graves in Moore Cemetery. A bucket of dirt from the immediate area of where Karl Myers is thought to be buried was placed in his plot with the monument.
Photo taken in Hendricks, W. Va. Meyers was West Virginia Poet Laureate from 1927 to 1937.