Beatrice Metheny holding lap dulcimer made by Jack Keith. This instrument was reportedly brought to Beatrice Metheny's farm on horseback by her mother in 1899. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, April 1989, Braxton County, WV. Attached: link to interview with Beatrice Metheny. archive reference: GM S1339. (Links to ACS 6.201). 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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