Archive Reference: GM S2597 Description: Dairy cow giving milk for cheese on Balli Farm. Photographed by: Gerry Milnes Date: September 1991 […]
Archive Reference: GM S2597
Description: Dairy cow giving milk for cheese on Balli Farm.
Photographed by: Gerry Milnes
Date: September 1991
Location: Hacker Valley near Helvetia, WV
Notes: The video project culminated in a documentary film entitled Helvetia: The Swiss of West Virginia that features descendants of 19th century Swiss immigrants sharing and discussing their music, dance, yodeling, foodways, crafts, customs, and celebrations.
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.
