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Bill Butler interview

Date: 1977-01-25
Description: One audio cassette. Recorded at Butler's Key West home. Butler discusses the woman who formed the band; the instruments he plays; the kind of music the band plays; playing for funerals and parades; nicknames for people in the band; the origins of the band's name; and discusses his brother and father.
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Bill Butler interview

Mrs. Walsh interview on cigar making

Date: 1977-01-26
Description: One audio cassette. Walsh owned a cigar making factory in Key West. Walsh discusses when and how she opened her factory, the mechanics of running her business, how they make cigars, and she describes her sole steady employee, George Culmer.
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Mrs. Walsh interview on cigar making

Al Boza interview

Date: 1977-01-26
Description: One audiocassette. Boza describes his personal history and the Comparsa carnivals in Key West. He helped train the dancers and musicians who participated in the carnivals.
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Al Boza interview

Performance by the Key West Junkanoo Band

Date: 1975
Description: One audio cassette. Performance of calypso music.
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Performance by the Key West Junkanoo Band

Interview with Lee Whyms and Ken Rahming of the Key West Junkanoo Band

Date: 1977-01-28
Description: One audio cassette. Whyms played the saw with a butter knife, and Rahming was a conga drum player. Interviews on side 1, recorded music on side 2. Whyms describes how he learned how to play the saw from Blackshirt, an old man from Key West; when the band was formed; how Marion Stevens discovered the band in an alley in Key West; how he plays the fine tooth crosscut saw. Rahming describes how he played the "coon-hide" drum (which was heated by fire to tune) when he first learned to play the drums at age sixteen; how his father came to Key West for the sponging industry; when he came home at night; how the Nassau-like parades began in Key West; how he visited Nassau and bought Calypso records, influencing his style of Calypso music to reflect Cuban and Bahamian characteristics; how he learned the limbo from Bill Butler; how Calypso is usually only played by men.  On side 2 they play examples of Calypso recordings, not included here due to copyright restrictions.
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Interview with Lee Whyms and Ken Rahming of the Key West Junkanoo Band

Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed

Date: 1977-01-30
Description: One audio cassette. Interview on side 1, music performance on side 2. Thurlow describes how he doesn't use music notes to play the conch shell; how shells are used for communication on boats in Key West, Bahamas, Hawaii; how he holds a BA in music; and how he plays the instrument. He also demonstrates playing the conch shell.
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Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Date: 1978-04-14
Description: One audio cassette. Side 1: Clarke, born in Jefferson County in 1904, started making white oak baskets when she was 13. She learned to do so from her parents and grandparents and discusses the types of baskets she made and explains how she makes them. She also discusses her grandparents - - who were once slaves - - and talks about the changes Lamont, Florida, has undergone throughout the years. In addition, she talks about planting and harvesting collards, peas, sweet corn, tomatoes, okra, and snap beans, and she discusses cooking collards and snap beans. Side 2: Clarke continues her discussion on foods and wild plants like the palm tree bud [??], polk salad (poisonous), elephant ears, tanion, and pepper grass. Also, she describes home remedies such as mint, ragweed, tallow, turpentine and camphos, castor oil and turpentine, cow water (for whooping cough), "Yellow Gal" (for fever), asaphidity bag. Further, she talks about growing up on a plantation, travels to Syracuse, New York, New Jersey, and Naples, Florida, talks about her relatives, and discusses finishing baskets by soaking them in water for a brown finish.
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Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Date: 1978-04-17
Description: One audio cassette. Side 1, C78-48: Rains, born December 24, 1894, discusses wrought ironwork. He learned the trade from his father, a former slave from Americus, Georgia. Rains began the practice himself in 1912. He discusses his work on wagons, wheels, and tools and talks of how he does restoration work for historical societies. Side 2, C78-48: Rains discusses his philosophy on life, making decorative hinges and tie backs; making unusual items; making white oak baskets; work on the farm, etc. Side 1, C78-49: Discusses his family, his blacksmith shop and equipment, his church, his membership in the Farmers' Union, Elizabethan Missionary Baptist Church, exhibiting for fairs and events, shoeing horses, etc.
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Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Claude Sheppard interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Date: 1978-05-03
Description: One audio cassette. Sheppard discusses how he began to braid whips and gives step-by-step instructions for starting whips. He also talks about his knowledge of Florida history and the use of the whip in Florida history, his trademark, his whip acts, and an accident driving cattle. Sheppard then discusses the origins of the term "Florida Cracker," talks about brindles and Conway buckles, and demonstrates how to braid a whip.
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Claude Sheppard interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Ella Mae Huffman interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Date: 1978-05-03
Description: One audio cassette. Huffman discusses the materials she uses to create the baskets, talks about the first steps used in creating the baskets, demonstrates fastening the needles together, talks about learning the craft in grade school, explains the application of shellac, and tells how long it takes to complete a basket. She also discusses life and her family's background.
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Ella Mae Huffman interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

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a_s1576_01_c77-012a	Mrs. Walsh interview on cigar making	Sound	Interviews Cigar making Cigars Oral narratives Tobacco Cigar makers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-012b	Al Boza interview	Sound	Folk dance Interviews Carnival Oral narratives Festivals	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-019	Performance by the Key West Junkanoo Band	Sound	African Americans Calypso music Music performance Musical instruments Musicians Performing arts Bands (Music) Musical groups	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-020	Interview with Lee Whyms and Ken Rahming of the Key West Junkanoo Band	Sound	African Americans Calypso music Interviews Musical instruments Life histories Oral histories Music performance Bands (Music) Musical groups Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-021	Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed	Sound	Shells Interviews Oral narratives Musical instruments Life histories Music performance Oral histories Musicians Preachers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_02_c78-047	Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark	Sound	Basket maker Interviews Basket work Basket making Basketry African Americans White oak Family history Life histories Agriculture Family farming Seed crops Food preparation Food habits Plants Flora Harvesting Healers Medicine Fieldwork	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_02_c78-048	Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains	Sound	Interviews Metalwork Occupational groups Occupational training Blacksmithing Metal craft Family history Life histories Metal products Slavery African Americans Labor Labor unions Fieldwork Blacksmiths	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_02_c78-051	Claude Sheppard interview for the North Florida Folklife Project	Sound	Whips Braiding Interviews Field recordings Oral narratives Leatherworking Leather Ranching	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_02_c78-052	Ella Mae Huffman interview for the North Florida Folklife Project	Sound	Basket making Interviews Field recordings African Americans Baskets Pine straw Oral narratives Weaving	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg

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Bill Butler interview

Bill Butler interview

Mrs. Walsh interview on cigar making

Mrs. Walsh interview on cigar making

Al Boza interview

Al Boza interview

Performance by the Key West Junkanoo Band

Performance by the Key West Junkanoo Band

Interview with Lee Whyms and Ken Rahming of the Key West Junkanoo Band

Interview with Lee Whyms and Ken Rahming of the Key West Junkanoo Band

Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed

Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Claude Sheppard interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Claude Sheppard interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Ella Mae Huffman interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Ella Mae Huffman interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

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Bill Butler interview

Bill Butler interview

Mrs. Walsh interview on cigar making

Mrs. Walsh interview on cigar making

Al Boza interview

Al Boza interview

Performance by the Key West Junkanoo Band

Performance by the Key West Junkanoo Band

Interview with Lee Whyms and Ken Rahming of the Key West Junkanoo Band

Interview with Lee Whyms and Ken Rahming of the Key West Junkanoo Band

Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed

Interview with conch shell player Rev. Thurlow Weed

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains

Claude Sheppard interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Claude Sheppard interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Ella Mae Huffman interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Ella Mae Huffman interview for the North Florida Folklife Project