Archive Reference: GM S1397
Description: Fiddle made by a Cartright at Mannington, WV, from Patty Looman’s instrument collection.
Photographed by: Gerry Milnes
Date: July 1990
Location: Marion County, WV
Notes: In Patty Looman’s interview with Gerry Milnes, Patty talks about her family’s feed store, where people from the community sometimes traded handmade instruments for goods from the shop. Related content archive reference: A ACS 6.375
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.
related content
https://augustaartsandculture.org/document/patty-looman-interview-and-dulcimer-tunes-8-18-1994/