Banjo

Phoeba Parsons and Ginny Hawker

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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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Jimmy Dowdle

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Jimmy Dowdle from Cowen holding an old Dobson pegheaded banjo made in Baltimore possibly in the 1890’s. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Jan 1988, Cowen, WV.

archive reference: GM S1462.

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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Glen Smith and Gerry Milnes

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Glen Smith with fiddle and Gerry Milnes with guitar, performing in Elizabeth, Wirt County, WV. Photograph by Dwight Diller (using Gerry Milnes’ camera), Nov 1989, Elizabeth, WV.

archive reference: GM S1461.

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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Dwight Diller and Glen Smith

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Dwight Diller playing banjo with Glen Smith on fiddle while performing in Elizabeth, Wirt County, WV. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Nov 1989, Elizabeth, WV.

archive reference: GM S1460.

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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Glen Smith and Dwight Diller

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Dwight Diller playing banjo with Glen Smith on fiddle while performing in Elizabeth, Wirt County, WV. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Nov 1989, Elizabeth, WV.

archive reference: GM S1459.

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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Jimmy Dowdle with banjo

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Jimmy Dowdle from Cowen holding an old Dobson peghead banjo made in Baltimore, possibly in the 1890’s. Metal plate on banjo could contain the name of the original owner. Related content is a recording featuring Jimmy Dowdle playing Dusty Roads and Home Sweet Home on banjo (beginning at 28:40). Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Jan 1988, Cowen, WV.

archive reference: GM S1472. (related content reference: A ACS 6055)

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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Clyde Case playing banjo

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Clyde Case playing banjo while seated on a porch swing with woven baskets at his feet. Related content from the Augusta Archives is a recording from Augusta Festival on 7/20/1988. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, August 1989, Duck, WV.

archive reference: GM S1436. (related content: A C541).

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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Slate-neck banjo

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Long, slate neck banjo from Madison, Boone County WV, in Patty Looman’s extensive instrument collection. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, July 1990, Marion County, WV.

archive reference: GM S1405.

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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Banjo on display at General Lewis Inn

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Fretless banjo on a rug leaning against the wall, displayed at General Lewis Inn in Lewisburg. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Nov 1993, Lewisburg, WV.

archive reference: GM S1194.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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