Two children looking at person with video camera over shoulder as they stand next to Alpen Rose Garden Club cart and Helvetia Public Library Bookmobile cart at the Helvetia Community Fair. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Sept 1992, Helvetia, WV. archive reference GM S2563. 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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.
