ALDERSON W.Va. (WVDN) – Alderson Main Street has announced the arrival of its latest “History Highlights and Tantalizing Tidbits” book of Alderson history. Meticulously researched and written by Belinda Anderson, it features “the first baby born in an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean.” She relates the account, as told by Alderson resident Rebecca Wilson, of Wilson’s uncle, James Clifford Parker, meeting Darinka “Dora” Marinkovic when he helped liberate the concentration camp in Germany where she was held at the end of World War II. The meeting led to marriage, and to the birth of Howard Miodrag Parker four miles above the Atlantic Ocean.
Volume XII also includes stories about the Alderson Presbyterian Church, which closed in July 2024; The Physician Ferryman; Eleanor Roosevelt; Aviation Adventures; the Legacy of the Lion; and more. It concludes with a tribute to Fawn Valentine, a beloved local citizen who died in 2025.
The book is available at the Alderson Artisans Gallery for $15 per copy. Volumes I-XI are also available for $10 each. All volumes can be purchased through the Gallery’s online shop.
Alderson Main Street President Don Sutherland said, “You don’t think of Alderson being in the international news or multiple countries trying to claim one of our citizens as their own. But it happened and, once again, Belinda Anderson tells this tale and more.
