A ACS 6.393
Artist: Rufus Kuhl
Album/Event: Interview
Tracks:
Collected/Recorded by: Gerry Milnes
Date: 4/2/1996
Location: Gilman, Randolph County, WV
Notes: Kuhl born 1911; Talk of family history, parents, grand-parents, Elk River, johnboats, hard times, poverty, education, work fishing, gigging, story about big “blue pike,” when river got dirty, depression days, made guitars, fiddles, school, business school, chair making, shaving horse lathe, selling white oak splits, basket making, tying fodder with grapevines, going to mill, Singleton mill, story about using molasses instead of oil in engine, old-time music, peddlers, pioneers, broom corn, neighbors along Elk River, snakes, Civil War, grandfather’s account, Thanksgiving poem,
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 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.