Festivalgoers perusing an exhibit of Swiss food and crafts by The Hutte restaurant. The Hutte restaurant in Helvetia was founded in 1968 and serves traditional Swiss-American food. Photograph by Gerry Milnes 1991, Elkins City Park, Elkins, WV. archive reference: GM S2485. 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.
