Phoeba Parsons and Ginny Hawker seated on the porch at Phoeba's home in Orma, WV. Related content features Phoeba Parsons' recollection of learning to play the old-time songs from her "relations," including her great uncle, Harvey Simmons. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, April 1989, Calhoun County, WV. archive reference: GM S1499. (Related content: A ACS 6.196, recorded by Gerry Milnes.) Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.
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