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["Charles Steven Adams is a hand-hewn bowl carver living in Martinsburg, WV. Originally from Nitro, WV, Steve worked as a social worker and took up bowl carving in retirement. He also makes wood furniture and hand-hewn carved sinks. His wife Jan works with him at local craft shows. Adams also teaches bowl carving workshops at his woodshop. http://www.charlesstevenadams.com/index.php."]%

13. Bed made by Charles Steven Adams

Identifier:
4224.AdamsCharlesSteven.Photo.007.3.22.17
Title:
Bed made by Charles Steven Adams
Date:
2017-03-22
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Woodworking tools, Furniture making, woodworking
Location:
Berkeley County (W. Va.), Martinsburg (W. Va.)
["Charles Steven Adams is a hand-hewn bowl carver living in Martinsburg, WV. Originally from Nitro, WV, Steve worked as a social worker and took up bowl carving in retirement. He also makes wood furniture and hand-hewn carved sinks. His wife Jan works with him at local craft shows. Adams also teaches bowl carving workshops at his woodshop. http://www.charlesstevenadams.com/index.php."]%

14. Woodshop of Charles Steven Adams

Identifier:
4224.AdamsCharlesSteven.Photo.008.3.22.17
Title:
Woodshop of Charles Steven Adams
Date:
2017-03-22
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
woodworking, Woodworking tools, Furniture making
Location:
Berkeley County (W. Va.), Martinsburg (W. Va.)
["Charles Steven Adams is a hand-hewn bowl carver living in Martinsburg, WV. Originally from Nitro, WV, Steve worked as a social worker and took up bowl carving in retirement. He also makes wood furniture and hand-hewn carved sinks. His wife Jan works with him at local craft shows. Adams also teaches bowl carving workshops at his woodshop. http://www.charlesstevenadams.com/index.php."]%

15. Shelf in home of Charles Steven Adams, featuring a hand-hewn bowl he made

Identifier:
4224.AdamsCharlesSteven.Photo.009.3.22.17
Title:
Shelf in home of Charles Steven Adams, featuring a hand-hewn bowl he made
Date:
2017-03-22
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Furniture making, woodworking, Woodworking tools
Location:
Martinsburg (W. Va.), Berkeley County (W. Va.)
["Charles Steven Adams is a hand-hewn bowl carver living in Martinsburg, WV. Originally from Nitro, WV, Steve worked as a social worker and took up bowl carving in retirement. He also makes wood furniture and hand-hewn carved sinks. His wife Jan works with him at local craft shows. Adams also teaches bowl carving workshops at his woodshop. http://www.charlesstevenadams.com/index.php.Glenn Horr, who made the hand adzes, is a metal worker in Berkeley Springs, WV"]%

16. Charles Steven Adams' hand adzes made by Berkeley Springs metal worker Glenn Horr

Identifier:
4224.AdamsCharlesSteven.Photo.010.3.22.17
Title:
Charles Steven Adams' hand adzes made by Berkeley Springs metal worker Glenn Horr
Date:
2017-03-22
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Woodworking tools, Furniture making, woodworking
Location:
Martinsburg (W. Va.), Berkeley County (W. Va.)
["Dave Bing is a fiddler and fiddle maker from Melissa, West Virginia, outside of Huntington. He now lives in Harmony in Roane County, West Virginia with his wife. As a young man, he spent time learning from many elder fiddlers in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, including the Hammons Family of Pocahontas County. Dave Bing has been a member of numerous old-time bands such as The Bing Brothers with his brothers Tim Bing and Mike Bing, Gandydancer with Gerry Milnes, and The High Ridge Ramblers with Mark Payne and Andrew Dunlap."]%

17. Fiddle back and tools in Dave Bing's workshop

Identifier:
4224.BingDave.Photo.007.6.21.17
Title:
Fiddle back and tools in Dave Bing's workshop
Date:
2017-06-21
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Bowed stringed instruments, Bing, Dave, 1955-, woodworking, Fiddling, Woodworking tools
Location:
Roane County (W. Va.)
["Dave Bing is a fiddler and fiddle maker from Melissa, West Virginia, outside of Huntington. He now lives in Harmony in Roane County, West Virginia with his wife. As a young man, he spent time learning from many elder fiddlers in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, including the Hammons Family of Pocahontas County. Dave Bing has been a member of numerous old-time bands such as The Bing Brothers with his brothers Tim Bing and Mike Bing, Gandydancer with Gerry Milnes, and The High Ridge Ramblers with Mark Payne and Andrew Dunlap."]%

18. Dave Bing's fiddle making tools

Identifier:
4224.BingDave.Photo.008.6.21.17
Title:
Dave Bing's fiddle making tools
Date:
2017-06-21
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
woodworking, Woodworking tools, Bing, Dave, 1955-, Bowed stringed instruments, Fiddling
Location:
Roane County (W. Va.)
["Dave Bing is a fiddler and fiddle maker from Melissa, West Virginia, outside of Huntington. He now lives in Harmony in Roane County, West Virginia with his wife. As a young man, he spent time learning from many elder fiddlers in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, including the Hammons Family of Pocahontas County. Dave Bing has been a member of numerous old-time bands such as The Bing Brothers with his brothers Tim Bing and Mike Bing, Gandydancer with Gerry Milnes, and The High Ridge Ramblers with Mark Payne and Andrew Dunlap."]%

19. Templates for Fiddle Making in Dave Bing's Workshop

Identifier:
4224.BingDave.Photo.009.6.21.17
Title:
Templates for Fiddle Making in Dave Bing's Workshop
Date:
2017-06-21
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
woodworking, Bowed stringed instruments, Fiddling, Woodworking tools, Bing, Dave, 1955-
Location:
Roane County (W. Va.)
["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/"]%

20. 15 hatchets, 2 knives, 1 axe in Jim Costa's collection, c. late 17th century through 19th century, West Virginia & Virginia

Identifier:
4224.CostaJim.Photo.001.6.6.16
Title:
15 hatchets, 2 knives, 1 axe in Jim Costa's collection, c. late 17th century through 19th century, West Virginia & Virginia
Date:
2016-06-06
Creator:
van Buren, Zoe
Contributor:
Costa, Jim (Banjoist)
Subject:
Antique collecting for men, Woodworking tools, Knives, Collectors and collecting, Axes
Location:
Summers County (W. Va.)
["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/"]%

21. "Sqaw axe" with original tree branch handle in Jim Costa's collection, c. 1740, found August County, Virginia

Identifier:
4224.CostaJim.Photo.002.6.6.16
Title:
"Sqaw axe" with original tree branch handle in Jim Costa's collection, c. 1740, found August County, Virginia
Date:
2016-06-06
Creator:
van Buren, Zoe
Contributor:
Costa, Jim (Banjoist)
Subject:
Woodworking tools, Antique collecting for men, Collectors and collecting, Axes
Location:
Summers County (W. Va.)
["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/"]%

22. Double edged forged hatchet in Jim Costa's collection, 19th century, Greenbrier County, West Virginia

Identifier:
4224.CostaJim.Photo.003.6.6.16
Title:
Double edged forged hatchet in Jim Costa's collection, 19th century, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
Date:
2016-06-06
Creator:
van Buren, Zoe
Contributor:
Costa, Jim (Banjoist)
Subject:
Woodworking tools, Collectors and collecting, Axes, Antique collecting for men
Location:
Summers County (W. Va.)
["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/"]%

23. Belt hatchet head in Jim Costa's collection from the John Ellison farm, Hans Creek, West Virginia

Identifier:
4224.CostaJim.Photo.004.6.6.16
Title:
Belt hatchet head in Jim Costa's collection from the John Ellison farm, Hans Creek, West Virginia
Date:
2016-06-06
Creator:
van Buren, Zoe
Contributor:
Costa, Jim (Banjoist)
Subject:
Collectors and collecting, Woodworking tools, Antique collecting for men, Axes
Location:
Summers County (W. Va.)
["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/"]%

24. Weapon axe head in Jim Costa's collection

Identifier:
4224.CostaJim.Photo.005.6.6.16
Title:
Weapon axe head in Jim Costa's collection
Date:
2016-06-06
Creator:
van Buren, Zoe
Contributor:
Costa, Jim (Banjoist)
Subject:
Woodworking tools, Axes, Antique collecting for men, Collectors and collecting
Location:
Summers County (W. Va.)