Black and white photo of Basil Blake standing on the porch. Milnes described Basil Blake as a pre-revival Braxton County dulcimer-maker from Bragg Run. Original photograph by Carl Fleischhauer. Photograph of the original photo by Gerry Milnes, Feb 1990, Braxton County, WV. archive reference: GM S1367. 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.
