Fiddle made by a Cartright at Mannington, WV, from Patty Looman's instrument collection. 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. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, July 1990, Marion County, WV. archive reference: GM S1397. (related content archive reference: A ACS 6.375). 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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https://augustaartsandculture.org/document/patty-looman-interview-and-dulcimer-tunes-8-18-1994/