Florida Memory is administered by the Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services, Bureau of Archives and Records Management. The digitized records on Florida Memory come from the collections of the State Archives of Florida and the special collections of the State Library of Florida.

State Archives of Florida

ArchivesFlorida.com
State Archives Online Catalog
ArchivesFlorida.com
ArchivesFlorida.com

State Library of Florida

Related Sites

Listen: The Blues Program

11 items found

Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Date: 1989-05-27
Description: One reel to reel recording. Patricia Sawin served as emcee. A discussion that arose out of the Florida Forest Industries Project. The Baxleys discuss their logging business, including contracts, the process of logging, their workers, working with Georgia Pacific, and duties of their workers.
Collection

Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Firefighting workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Date: 1989-05-28
Description: One reel to reel recording. Jan Rosenberg served as emcee. A discussion that arose out of Rosenberg's work of the Florida Forest Industries Project. They discuss training for causes of forest fires, their intensity, equipment and clothing used, and tactics employed.
Collection

Firefighting workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Date: 1991-05-25
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Hansen served as emcee. Often called the 'Queen of Florida Folk,' Fitchen debuted at the Florida Folk Festival at fifteen in 1966 as Eugenia Sisinni. Born in Orlando, Fitchen has played most of the festivals ever since, as well as many others including the Beers' Fox Hollow Festival. In 1999 she was nominated for a Grammy for her album, Roads.
Collection

Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Land Management workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-28
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Rosenberg served as emcee. A discussion that arose out of Rosenberg's work of the Florida Forest Industries Project. They discuss prescribed burns, growing of timber trees, caring for longleaf pine, what is land management, measuring and plotting trees, and education for timber and logging. The workshop began with Bryan playing fiddle tunes.
Collection

Land Management workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Logging Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-26
Description: One reel to reel recording. Rosenberg served as emcee. A discussion that arose out of Rosenberg's work of the Florida Forest Industries Project. They discuss training for logging, typical day logging, safety hazards, and superstitions. Afterwards, logger Bryan played fiddle tunes.
Collection

Logging Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Logging workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Date: 1989-05-28
Description: One reel to reel recording. Jan Rosenberg served as emcee. A discussion that arose out of Rosenberg's work of the Florida Forest Industries Project. They discuss training for logging, typical day logging, safety hazards, and superstitions. Afterwards, logger Bryan played fiddle tunes.
Collection

Logging workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Lynn Wadley playing the musical saw at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-28
Description: One reel to reel recording. Rosenberg served as emcee. She was joined by guitarist Doug Pease.
Collection

Lynn Wadley playing the musical saw at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Mangum Trio performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Date: 1991-05-25
Description: One reel to reel recording. Hansen served as emcee. The trio consisted of Larry Mangum, Terry Campbell, and Kevin Banks.
Collection

Mangum Trio performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Sawmill Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-27
Description: One reel to reel recording. Sawin served as emcee. A discussion that arose out of the Florida Forest Industries Project. They discuss the history of portable sawmills, dipping pine in chemicals, quality of wood, ban saws, forzen lumber, losing fingers, safety, stacking lumber, and roughwood.
Collection

Sawmill Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Swing Fever and the Fretless Wonders Band performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Date: 1991-05-25
Description: One reel to reel recording. Hansen served as emcee. Swing Fever was a dance troupe out of Gainesville, and consisted of Bart Ruark, and Marietta Massey. The Band consisted of Betsy Palmer (guitar), Richard Lefts (violin), and Mark Mackelvie (bass). A Song For Will was written in tribute of the late Will McLean by Palmer.
Collection

Swing Fever and the Fretless Wonders Band performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
a_s1576_t89-070a	Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area	Sound	Merchants Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Business Logging Forests and forestry Trees Labor Occupational folklore Occupational groups Interviews Workshops (Adult education) Loggers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-077b	Firefighting workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area	Sound	Foresters Fire fighters Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Burning of land Land use Prescribed burning Forests and forestry Trees Fire Occupational folklore Occupational groups Interviews Workshops (Adult education) Forest fires Prevention and control Forest fire fighters	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t91-027b	Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)	Sound	Guitarist Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Composers Singing Guitarists Folk singers Guitar music Musicians Singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-074	Land Management workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Land tenure Land use Burning of land Forests and forestry Trees Timber Longleaf pine Prescribed burning Foresters Fiddlers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-053	Logging Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Logging Land use Forests and forestry Trees Timber Occupational folklore Occupational groups Interviews Workshops (Adult education) Loggers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-076	Logging workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Logging Land use Forests and forestry Trees Timber Occupational folklore Occupational groups Interviews Workshops (Adult education) Loggers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-077a	Lynn Wadley playing the musical saw at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Music performance Musical saws Saws, musical Musical instruments Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t91-027a	Mangum Trio performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)	Sound	Dancers Bands (Music) Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singers Swing music Singing Musical groups Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-068	Sawmill Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Sawmill workers Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Sawmilling Sawmills Lumber trade Forests and forestry Trees Timber Occupational folklore Occupational groups Interviews Workshops (Adult education) Saws	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t91-026	Swing Fever and the Fretless Wonders Band performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)	Sound	Dancers Bands (Music) Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singers Swing music Singing Tributes Dance Dance music Demonstrations Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg

Florida Memory is a digital outreach program providing free online access to select archival records from collections housed in the State Library and Archives of Florida. Florida Memory digitizes materials that illuminate the state's history and culture.

Additional Links

Florida Memory is funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Florida's LSTA program is administered by the Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services.

For FY2022-23, the percentage of total costs for the Florida Memory program financed with federal money is 66%; the federal dollar amount to be spent on the program is $646,422. This program does not receive any non-governmental funding.

State Archives of Florida

State Library of Florida

Related Sites

Change Background Color

Change Font-Size

Change Font

Cursor

Highlight Links

Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Firefighting workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Firefighting workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Land Management workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Land Management workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Logging Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Logging Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Logging workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Logging workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Lynn Wadley playing the musical saw at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Lynn Wadley playing the musical saw at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Mangum Trio performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Mangum Trio performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Sawmill Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Sawmill Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Swing Fever and the Fretless Wonders Band performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Swing Fever and the Fretless Wonders Band performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

State Archives of Florida

State Library of Florida

Related Sites

Reconstruction era voting records

Florida's first automobile registrations

Milestones in Florida's political framework

Letters, ephemera and other historical records

Documenting Florida's chief executive officers

Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Firefighting workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Firefighting workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Jeannie Fitchen performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Land Management workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Land Management workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Logging Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Logging Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Logging workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Logging workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Lynn Wadley playing the musical saw at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Lynn Wadley playing the musical saw at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Mangum Trio performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Mangum Trio performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Sawmill Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Sawmill Workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Swing Fever and the Fretless Wonders Band performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Swing Fever and the Fretless Wonders Band performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)