| a_s1576_10_c83-099 | Interviews with visitors to the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Sound | Interviews
Fieldwork
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Special events | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interviews with visitors to the 1983 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1983-05
- Description
- One audio cassette. Features interviews with first-time and returning participants and visitors at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival on their feelings about the year's event, including an interview with Lucreaty Clark in which she remarks on the festival's history of tolerance towards people from all cultures.
- Collection
| a_s1576_12_c84-008 | Silver Springs boat drivers Willie Marsh and William Crowell | Sound | African Americans
Life histories
Interviews
Oral histories
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Glass bottom boats
Boat drivers
Boat driving
Libraries
Springs
Tourists
Tourism
Boat driver
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Silver Springs boat drivers Willie Marsh and William Crowell
- Date
- 1984-03-09
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C84-8: Side A Interview/talk with Willie Marsh and William Crowell as part of the Library Folklife Program; they discuss their childhood at Silver Springs as well as their work as guides at Silver Springs; driving boats at Silver Springs; tipping problems; stories told on boat tours (Bridal Chamber, Mammoth Rock Ledge, Main Spring, Catfish Reception Hall, Ladies' Parlor; Devil's Kitchen, Geysers; Florida Snowstorm, Blue Grotto, Backbone of Prehistoric Remains, Christmas Tree Grove, Boat used by Ponce De Leon, Catfish Hotel); commercialization damaging vegetation at Springs; visitor damage to the ecosystem of Springs. Side B They discuss glass-bottom boats; visitors who rode the glass-bottom boats; stories told; tipping gimmicks; experiences with snakes, boat breakdown, alligators. C84-9: Continuation of interview -- they discuss a row boat in the river; drowning of visitors on an excursion; traveling to New York to be on "What's My Line?"; seniority on the job; Tarzan; family members that worked at Silver Springs; music they learned from their parents; age and retirement; big boats on the river; drinking story and hunting story; different owners of Silver Springs; trip to Daytona Beach by horse and wagon.
- Collection
| a_s1576_12_c84-010b | Cowboy musician Jim Bob Tinsley | Sound | Cowboys
Life histories
Interviews
Oral histories
Country music
Country dancing
Clogging
Demonstrations
Music performance
Ranching
Libraries
Clog dancing
Musicians
Singers
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Cowboy musician Jim Bob Tinsley
- Date
- 1984-03-09
- Description
Two audio cassettes. C84-10: Interview with Jim Bob Tinsley and Dottie Tinsley as part of the Library Folklife Program; Jim Bob describes his early life and how he learned to play music and how he got into cowboy music; Woodmen of the World Band; joining the Navy playing in a band in Africa during World War II; tells stories about the songs he performs as well as about Gene Autry and Winston Churchill; Dottie describes clogging steps. C84-11: Continuation of interview and performance in C84-10; he continues discussing cowboy music and the songs he performs; vagabonds; WLS National Barndance; Dr. John R. Brinkley stations in Mexico and Texas; continuation of traditions in singing and writing cowboy songs; his book; Jim Reeves; his albums.
- Collection
| a_s1576_13_c84-050 | Ft. White Fourth Grade Class | Sound | Teacher
Storytellers
Fieldwork
Elementary schools
Storytelling
Teachers
Teaching of folklore
Ghosts
Jump rope rhymes
Games
Supernatural legends
Children
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Ft. White Fourth Grade Class
- Date
- 1983-10
- Description
- One audio cassette. Students and teachers discuss family photographs brought in by students; scary stories; games and rhymes; jump rope rhymes.
- 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_c84-052 | Interview with Charlie Mae Williams | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Family history
Canning and preserving
Sugarcane grinding
Sugarcane products
Cane syrup
Cookery (syrups)
Life histories | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Charlie Mae Williams
- Date
- 1983-03-18
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side A Williams discusses her life history and family history; canning traditions and methods for preserving. Side B She discusses where she learned to can; her early education; making cane syrup.
- 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_c84-054 | 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_c84-055 | 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
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