a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt007 | Interview with Camilla (Mickey) McRae | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Fishing Recreation Rivers Flora Local history Boats and boating | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Camilla (Mickey) McRae
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- 1986-07-30
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with long-time St. Johns River resident McRae. Originally contacted as having possible information on commercial fishing in Mayport (which she did not), she discussed life upon the St. Johns River; river fishing and boating; gardening; and local history. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt002 | Interview with Captain Eddie Baker | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Life histories Sound recordings Oral histories Fishers Occupational groups Boats and boating Seafood gathering Family history Maritime life Maritime folklore Occupational folklore Folklore Labor African Americans Family farming Religion Beliefs and cultures World War, 1939-1945 Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Captain Eddie Baker
- Date
- 1986-07-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Captain Eddie Baker. Born in Georgia, Baker moved to Mayport in the 1920s, and worked as a captain for several fish houses. He discusses growing up around fishing and farming; farming techniques; learning the trade; recreational fishing; eating and cooking fish; skippering shrimp boats; economic aspects of shrimping; immigrant fishers in Mayport; regulations of fishing; World War II in Florida; bait; weather lore; superstitions and folklore; dangers of shrimping; and race relations. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1592_08_reel01 | Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins | Sound | Fieldwork Seafood industry Fisheries processing Fishery processing plants Selling seafood Oyster fisheries Oyster industries Oyster shucking Oysters Fishing Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Life histories Oral narratives Oyster tongs Fishers Merchants Dealers (retail trade) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins
- Date
- 1986-10-16
- Description
- Two reel to reels (also copied onto audio cassette). Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins. He discusses his early life in Pensacola; learning the oyster fishing trade; local oystermen; opening his own seafood business; the oystering process; boats; the seafood industry; harvesting clams; Florida Seafood Festival; and ecological changes to Bay. Also available on reel to reels (reels 6-7). Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt012 | Interview with fisher Albert Gufford | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Fishing Recreation Rivers Boats and boating Local history Tourism Tourists Fishing Equipment and supplies Fishing tackle Fishing weights Charter boat fishing Boats and boating Chartering Smuggling Charter boat captains Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fisher Albert Gufford
- Date
- 1986-08-08
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with retired fisher and charter boat captain Gufford in his home in Mayport. He discusses fishing; making fishing tackle (lead fishing weights); boating; tourism; sports fishers; rum running during Prohibition; drug smuggling; and local history. Throughout the recording, a loud electric fan can be heard blowing. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1592_08_reel05 | Interview with fisher Angelo Fichera | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Fishing Greek Americans Italian Americans Boats and boating Oyster fisheries Seafood gathering Sturgeon fisheries Sturgeon fishing Sturgeons Mullet fisheries Mullet fishing Fishing nets Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fisher Angelo Fichera
- Date
- 1986-11-05
- Description
- Two reel to reels (also copied onto audio cassette). Interview with fisher Angelo Fichera, whose family came from Sicily. He fished for oysters, clams, shrimps, and sturgeon. He discusses Italian and Greek communities in Apalachicola; his fisher father; oystering; fishing boats; mullet and sturgeon fishing; using nets; local businesses; and local fishers. Also a copy can be found in the Library of Congress' American Folk Archive (AFS 26,808). Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1592_06_tape18 | Interview with fisher Frank "Sonny Boy" Segree | Sound | Fieldwork Sound recording Interviewing Interviews Oral narratives Maritime life Oral histories Life histories Fishing Seafood gathering Family history Netmaking Boatbuilding Shrimpers (persons) Oyster industries Oyster fisheries Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fisher Frank "Sonny Boy" Segree
- Date
- 1986-11-11
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with fisher Segree in Eastpoint. Segree discusses oystering; shrimping; family history; growing up in the Panhandle; life during the Depression; netmaking; boatbuilding; oystering; crabbing; trot lines; arrival of motors; shrimping; star navigation; catching flounder; local businesses; fish houses; and selling seafood. A duplicate copy of the interview may be found at the Library of Congress's American Folk Center archive (AFS 26,814-26,815). Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project may be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt004 | Interview with Geraldine Margerum and John Gavagan, Jr. | Sound | Fieldwork Sound recording Interviewing Interviews Life histories Oral histories Oral narratives Family history Shrimpers (persons) Saltwater fishing Labor World War, 1939-1945 Cooking and dining Seafood gathering Cookery (Mullet) Seafood Folklore Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Geraldine Margerum and John Gavagan, Jr.
- Date
- 1986-07-26
- Description
- Three audio cassettes. Interview with Geraldine Margerum, whose family were long-time Mayport fishers. She discusses growing up in North Carolina; moving to Florida in the 1930s; working at a local Jacksonville restaurant; World War II; her father-in-law; a local Duval County judge; her husband's death at sea in 1956; Mayport in 1940s and 1950s; commercial fishing; pogy fishing (Menhaden); cooking mullet; stories of local residents; drug running in Mayport; and local legends. Recorded in her home in Neptune Beach. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1592_06_tape16 | Interview with netmaker Costa Buzier | Sound | Fieldwork Sound recordings Netmaking Nets Fishing nets Occupational groups Textile arts Maritime life Interviewing Interviews Life histories Oral histories Oral narratives Family history Weather Ethnometeorology Beliefs and cultures Belief systems Occupational folklore Shrimpers (persons) Boats Hurricanes Net maker Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with netmaker Costa Buzier
- Date
- 1986-11-11
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Buzier at his netmaking shop by Taylor and Hepburn. He discusses his father as a fisher and shrimper; family history; learning the fishing trade; shrimping; clamming; hurricanes; oystering; local businesses; George Kirvin; recreation activities of fishers; oyster canning; Apalachicola life; learning to make nets; net making tools and methods; shrimp trawls; net mending; weather folklore; superstitions; and netmakers like Billy Burbank. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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a_s1576_22_c86-171 | Interview with Nuhad Farmand | Sound | Fieldwork Interviews Sound recordings Life histories Oral histories Palestinian Americans Embroidery Textile arts Emigration and immigration Decorative arts Arab Americans Clothing and dress Naming practices Marriage rites Community enterprise Stores, retail Christianity Embroiderers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Nuhad Farmand
- Date
- 1984-12-04
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Her husband Kamel is present for part of the interview. Farmand discusses moving to Florida at age 21; her father-in-law working in the South as a salesman; life in Bethlehem and South America; learning embroidery; patterns and designs; symbolism; Palestinian clothing; Ramallah-American Clubs; Palestinian community in Jacksonville; dating and marriage practices; naming traditions; her husband Kamel talked about running a grocery store and sandwich shop; Arabic music; Christianity among Palestinians; and life in the U.S. Images of Farmand can be found in S 1577, v.36. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
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a_s1592_06_tape08 | Interview with oyster shuckers Virginia Duggar and Nanette Lolley | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Fishing Seafood gathering Seafood industry Shrimpers (persons) Stores, retail Boats and boating Mullet fisheries Dealers (Retail trade) Local history Family history Mullet fishing Oyster tongs Oyster shucking Weather Shuckers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with oyster shuckers Virginia Duggar and Nanette Lolley
- Date
- 1986-10-10
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with oyster shuckers Duggar and Lolley. They discuss family history; George Kirvin (Duggar's first boss); local oysters; job conditions; shucking; how they learned the craft; Loys Cain; tools for shucking; and fishing superstitions. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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