The Helvetia Folk Dancers performing at Augusta Heritage Festival in Elkins City Park. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Sept 1991, Elkins, WV. archive reference: GM S2494. 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.
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Augusta Heritage Festival, Milnes Collection Photography