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![["Jim Costa, 67 (as of 2016), is a native of Summers County, and an accomplished traditional musician and storyteller. He is also an avid collector and expert of 18th and 19th century farm tools and objects of rural life, including Hammons family fiddles, spinning wheels, cast iron cookware, and blacksmith tools. Costa has been building this collection throughout his life, and he restores many of the old tools and instruments himself. In addition to his public presentations on music and material culture, Costa appeared in the 1987 John Sayles film Matewan.In the summer of 2016, University of North Carolina folklore graduate student Zoe van Buren spent two months with Costa, conducting oral histories and documenting his extensive collection. Read more about van Burens work here: https://wvfolklife.org/2016/09/06/thats-a-grand-story-to-tell-documenting-jim-costas-collection/Zoe van Buren's website:https://zoevanburen.wordpress.com/"]](/thumb/4224CostaJimPhoto1126616 "Chopping and mashing tools for making sauerkraut in Jim Costa's collection")
- Identifier:
- 4224.CostaJim.Photo.112.6.6.16
- Title:
- Chopping and mashing tools for making sauerkraut in Jim Costa's collection
- Date:
- 2016-06-06
- Creator:
- van Buren, Zoe
- Contributor:
- Costa, Jim (Banjoist)
- Subject:
- Antique collecting for men, Cooking (Sauerkraut), Collectors and collecting, and foodways
- Location:
- Summers County (W. Va.)
![["The Helvetia Community Fair, located in the Swiss community of Helvetia in Randolph County, is one of the oldest agricultural fairs in West Virginia. Activities include a parade in Swiss costume, alphorn music, Swiss folk dancing and singing, fahnenschwingen (flag twirling), a crafts, food, and canning exhibition, field events, an archery shoot, and more.Learn more in Emily Hilliard's Bitter Southerner piece on Helvetia's seasonal celebrations, including the Community Fair: https://bittersoutherner.com/my-year-in-helvetia-west-virginiaAnd in the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project conducted by the West Virginia Folklife Program in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]](/thumb/4224HelvetiaCommunityFair070Photo91016 "Sauerkraut exhibition at the Helvetia Community Fair")
- Identifier:
- 4224.HelvetiaCommunityFair.070.Photo.9.10.16
- Title:
- Sauerkraut exhibition at the Helvetia Community Fair
- Date:
- 2016-09-10
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Cooking, Swiss, Agricultural exhibitions, Swiss Americans, Food habits, Festivals, Cooking (Sauerkraut), Canning and preserving, Helvetia (W. Va.), and foodways
- Location:
- Helvetia (W. Va.)
![["The Htte Swiss Restaurant was founded in Helvetia in the 1960s by Eleanor Mailloux and Delores Bagerly. Mailloux took sole ownership of the restaurant in 1976, and it is now owned by a collective of family members. The Htte is still open every day and functions as a community gathering place and ad hoc museum. The restaurant offers mostly Swiss-German fare, with menu items such as rosti, veal and pork bratwurst, parsley potatoes, sauerkraut, house made sausage, homemade bread, and sauerbraten (sour beef). The sampler plate includes veal and pork bratwurst, sausage, parsley potatoes, green beans, curry chicken, homemade bread, sauerkraut, pickled pineapple, Helvetia cheese, and peach cobbler.Visit the Httes facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/The-H%C3%BCtte-Restaurant-164869667005759Read more about the Htte in Emily Hilliards articles for the Southern Foodways Alliance: https://www.southernfoodways.org/something-good-from-helvetia/NPRs The Salt: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/17/386970143/swiss-village-west-virginia-mardi-gras-feast-fasnachtAnd The Bitter Southerner:https://bittersoutherner.com/my-year-in-helvetia-west-virginiaAlso see the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project conducted by the West Virginia Folklife Program in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]](/thumb/4224HelvetiaCommunityFair082Photo91016 "Hutte sampler plate offered during the Helvetia Community Fair")
- Identifier:
- 4224.HelvetiaCommunityFair.082.Photo.9.10.16
- Title:
- Hutte sampler plate offered during the Helvetia Community Fair
- Date:
- 2016-09-10
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Helvetia (W. Va.), Bread, foodways, Cooking (Sausages), Cooking, Swiss, Restaurateurs, Cooking (Sauerkraut), Food habits, and Restaurants--United States
- Location:
- Helvetia (W. Va.)
