ACS 6.385
Artist: Bert Thompson
Album/Event:
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Collected/Recorded by: Gerry Milnes
Date: 12/1/1994
Location: Beverly, WV
Notes: Thompson is a “water witch” living in Beverly, WV. In this interview, he talks about his family, getting into the water well drilling business, learning to “dowse,” finding water for people, considers it a “gift,”
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 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.