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Storytellers at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival (Storytelling Stage) (Sunday)

Type:

Sound

Date:

05/30/1993

Item:

Audio recording

Container:

31

Series:

S1576

Item ID:

C93-42 through C93-49

Event Name

Collector or Fieldworker

Tradition Bearer

Genre or Occupation

Title of Work

  • Welcome remarks (Smith) (C93-42)
  • Jack the Hunter (Newsome)
  • Cow Salve
  • Hatchee Hen
  • Ground Hog and the Seven Wolves
  • Jennifer Kisses a Frog (Taluga) (C93-43)
  • Four Sisters
  • Coyote Party (Cont. on C93-43)
  • Joe Baldwin (Smith)
  • Aboriginal Story (Skipper)
  • How the Turtle Got His Shell Cracked (Spitzer)
  • How the Skunk Got Its Stripe (Dowling)
  • Magic Grind (Cont. on C93-45)
  • I Would Rather Have a Spanking Than Go To The Doctor
  • Big Fat Bear
  • Jack Does Not Have the Sense He Was Born With (Nesmith)
  • Washing the Pot (C93-46)
  • Wonderful Shrinking Shirt
  • The Little Pine Tree (Spitzer)
  • Noisy House
  • Fiddle Story (C93-47)
  • Goldilocks and the Tree Bears (Harshbarger)
  • Lazy Boys
  • Scared Little Boy at Grandmothers Creaky House
  • Creaking Stairs
  • How the Toucan Got His Striped Beak (C93-48)
  • Cinderella
  • Bird That Grows Bigger and Bigger (Mutima)
  • How Dog Came To Be Mans Best Friend
  • Dry Fry (Smith) (C93-49)
  • Epaminondas
  • Joe Kelly

Place Name

Corporate or Conference Name

Subject

General Note/Comment

  • Eight audio cassette recordings. Storytellers spoke between 10am and 2pm at the storytelling stage. The coordinator was Peggy Smith. Festival director (since 1954) Thelma Boltin passed away in late 1992. A well-known storyteller, the 1993 Storytelling workshops were dedicated to her, and many of the storytellers talked about her. Smith was from Jacksonville. Spitzer and Matimu resided in Miami. Skipper, and Harshbarger lived in Tallahassee. Dowling was from St. Augustine. Nesmith lived in Nocatee.

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