Fiddle made by Dayton Howes. According to his granddaughter Missy (Howes) Daugherty, Dayton Howes was obsessed with the tone and sound of the fiddle, more than the look. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Dec 1988, Upshur County, WV. archive reference: GM S1503. 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.
