Carl Davis from Racoon Creek in Braxton County, WV, playing his lap dulcimer. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Jan 1989, Braxton County, WV. Link to recording from Gerry Milnes Audio Collection of Carl Davis playing dulcimer tunes. archive reference: GM S1208. Link to ACS 6.286. 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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