| a_s1576_13_c84-054 | Interview with fiddler Wilborn Reaves | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Fiddle music
Fiddling
Music performance
Old time music
Musicians
Fiddlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fiddler Wilborn Reaves
- Date
- 1983-03-28
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side A Mr. Reaves discusses the history of his family and the area; how he learned to play from a traveling violinist; other family members who play music; his playing style; bands in which he played; community gatherings for music; his father, a square dance caller; quitting and starting back again with the fiddle; meeting to play with his cousin twice a year; his mother, a guitar player; his FFA quartet; different fiddles he had owned; other musical family members. Side B Mr. Reaves performs: "Sally Goodin"; "Waltz You Saved for Me" (his mother's favorite); "Orange Blossom Special"; "Rye Whiskey" (first song he learned); Mr. Reaves plays with three fingers. For images of Reaves, see S 1577, v. 22.
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-053 | Interview with furniture maker George Wilson | Sound | Furniture maker
Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Furniture makers
Furniture making
Cypress
Woodwork
Furniture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with furniture maker George Wilson
- Date
- 1983-03-28
- Description
- One audio cassette. Mr. Wilson discusses family history; how he learned to build furniture from his father; where his father learned; how his family became involved in building cypress furniture; moving from Tampa to Lee, Florida; how he makes his furniture; why he stays in the business; time it takes to build a chair; alteration in furniture design; other family involved in the business; experiences in the woods while cutting trees for furniture; names of furniture pieces (Nusz notes that Mr. Wilson worked as he was interviewed).
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-059 | Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon | Sound | Millers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Gristmills
Milling
Occupational groups
Occupational training
Mills | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with grist miller S. M. Blackmon
- Date
- 1983-06-29
- Description
- One audio cassette. Mr. Blackman discusses learning how to run grist mill; background of his property; discusses how the mill works; differences between old process and new (grist mill is running in background during interview).
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-060 | Interview with herbalist LaVerne Zipperer | Sound | Herbalists
Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Marriage
Health
Herbs
Flora
Diseases
Childbirth
Family history
Natural childbirth
Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with herbalist LaVerne Zipperer
- Date
- 1983-11-03
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side A Ms. Zipperer talks about her early childhood and things she learned; speaks of her children and two husbands; talks about getting 5 adopted children and 16 foster children for a total of 32 children; making a living to support the family by farming and public work; family property they live on; discusses various herbal remedies treating ailments such as infection, venereal disease, pneumonia, burns, colds; homemade shampoo; planting by the moon; talks about her parents' backgrounds; Indian and Spanish backgrounds in her family; family tradition of net making; husband taught her farming, she taught him net-making; talks about her grandmother's Indian herbal cures; strange cures. Side B Discusses natural cures further; discusses natural vs. non-natural childbirth; delivering 4 of her grandchildren; delivering animal babies; talks about making hoghead cheese.
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-051 | Interview with quilter Alva Gaston | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Family history
Canning and preserving
Sugarcane grinding
Sugarcane products
Quilting
Quiltmakers
Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with quilter Alva Gaston
- Date
- 1983-03-14
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side A Alva Gaston discusses family history; quilting; other crafts/traditions passed down through her family; canning - fig preserves. Side B Alva Gaston discusses preserving; cutting sugar cane; local cane grinding (Annie Sue and P.K. Powell); her father's blacksmith shop; family remedies.
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-055 | Interview with singer Louise Sanders | Sound | Musicians
Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Family history
Singing
Poetry
Old time music
Craft
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with singer Louise Sanders
- Date
- 1983-03-17
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C84-55: Side A Ms. Sanders discusses her family history - especially tragic episodes like the death of her mother by starvation and the disappearance of her son; tells jokes; sings songs and talks about the songs she sings: "It's Pretty and White" (racy birthday song); "Dying Cowgirl" (talks about but does not sing) "I Come Home the Other Night as Drunk as I can be"; "The Blind Child"; "My Father Is a Drunkard" (A Lonely Orphan Child); "The Drinking House Over the Way"; "Engineer's Child"; "The Miner's Child"; unidentified song about a mother's death; "Letter Etched in Black". Side B "My Blue Heaven"; yodeling; tongue twister "Hello Betsy; three riddles; joke about two Irishmen on the ocean; poem/rhyme about a black man being baptized; Pat and Mike joke; preacher story; joke about a rooster; joke about a bull/steer; more jokes; tells story about her early married life; tells cemetery story; sings "Skin a Flea for its Tallow"; story about falling off a wagon; story about a wild cat coming in the house. C85-56: Side A Ms. Sanders quotes a letter/poem her son wrote her husband; son's religious comments; recites several rhymes and poems; sings: "I Took My Girl to a Restaurant"; "Tree in the Hole and Hole in the Ground"; "Dying Cowgirl"; talks about her youth; sings: "The Brave Engineers"; "Put My Little Shoes Away"; "Kiss and Make It Well"; "Dear Lord Forgive"; "Dear Ole Faded Picture on the Wall"; "Sweet Lullabye"; talks about putting on plays for the school; sings: "Curtin Rize"; "It's Tough to be a Boy"; talks about her daughter reciting a book of the Bible. Side B Ms. Sanders recites the rhyme, "I'm Momma's Little Curly Head"; sings: "Whoa, Mule, Whoa" (sung by Louise's husband); recites more rhymes; tells joke about three preachers; sings: "Single Young Soldier"; "My Little Darling"; "Kiss Those Lips That You Betrayed"; "Oh, Darling You Can't Love But One"; "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down" (about the Titanic); part of "Ole '97"; explains how to make snuff box baskets; bathroom tile gift; egg carton ice-box decoration/magnet; how to make poodles [?].
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-057 | J. D. Agner, Jr. interview for Folk Arts in Rural Education | Sound | Folksingers
Bluegrass music
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Grinding (manufacturing processes)
Old time music
Syrups | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
J. D. Agner, Jr. interview for Folk Arts in Rural Education
- Date
- 1983-03-31
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Mr. Agner discusses his family and background; how he got started in music; remembers first song he learned, "I Saw the Light"; talks of his first band, The North Florida Bluegrass Boys; talks about styles he plays - bluegrass and Gospel; how he learned to play guitar; songs he learned from his father: "I Live On", "Great Speckled Bird"; talks about other family members that play; talks about cane grinding; making can syrup; speaks of plans to teach his children music and cane grinding. At the time of interview, he worked as a meat packer.
- Collection
| Jesse Hughey demonstrating sugar cane processing methods | Jesse Hughey demonstrating sugar cane processing methods | Still Image | Fieldwork
Sugarcane grinding
Sugarcane products
Elderly, the
Sugar crops
Farmer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Louise Sanders in her home discussing folk beliefs | Louise Sanders in her home discussing folk beliefs | Still Image | Oral communication
Interviewing
Fieldwork
Material culture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Louise Sanders in her home discussing folk beliefs
- Date
- 1983-03-28
- Description
- Five color slides. Sanders discussing folk tales, medical beliefs, jokes, and other North Florida folk beliefs. For a recording of Sanders, see S 1576, Box 13, tapes C84-55 and C84-56.
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-063 | Louise Sanders telling stories and singing at Madison Elementary School (3rd graders) | Sound | Singers
Storytellers
Fieldwork
Schools
Classrooms
Children
Students
Demonstrations
Storytelling
Family history
Jokes
Life histories
Singing
Yodeling
Hand-clapping games | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Louise Sanders telling stories and singing at Madison Elementary School (3rd graders)
- Date
- 1983-10-12
- Description
- "One audio cassette. Side A Louise Sanders tells the student stories about her childhood such as going to school in a one-room schoolhouse; foods they ate; things her family did for entertainment; chores. She also tells rhymes and sings: "Folks Behold a Little Boy" and "Sunbonnet Sally"; tells tongue-twisters; Othella (student?) demonstrates a clapping game. Side B Louise Sanders sings: "I Took My Girl to a Resstaurant"; "Just Becky and Me"; "Dying Cowgirl"; yodels; tells story about her start in singing; tells a rooster joke; tells about her bottle."
- Collection
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