A ACS 6.394
Artist: Burcie Ward
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Collected/Recorded by: Gerry Milnes
Date: 5/8/1996
Location: Cottle, Nicholas County, WV
Notes: Ward lives in an old farm house in Nicholas County owned by the Woods family. She has lifelong rights to live there as a family friend. The house contains detailed mural paintings in an upstairs bedroom and has much folklore attached to the story of how it got there.
Area history, talk of Ward’s family history, Woods family, tells story about Carpenter baby born under a rock, talk of painter, talk of childhood play, early timbering, story about rattlesnake; Story about wife shooting bear, herbalism and natural remedies, snakebite cures, granny grease, stopping blood with Bible verse, girls killed on Stroud’s Creek by Indians, local train lines, remembers first airplane and first cars
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.