While filming for the documentary Helvetia: The Swiss of West Virginia, Bob Campbell, Sue Rutisill, and the film crew stopped for footage at Pleasant Hill church on a fall day between Pickens and Hacker Valley. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Oct 1992, near Helvetia, WV. archive reference: GM S2640. 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.
