| a_s1576_t85-219 | Interview with Myakka City assitant fire chief Paul Phillips | Sound | Fire fighters
Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Community culture
Fire
Occupational folklore
Occupational training
Women fire fighters
Volunteer fire fighters
Fire extinction | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City assitant fire chief Paul Phillips
- Date
- 1984-11-13
- Description
- One reel to reel. Phillips talks about fire fighting in Myakka, including volunteer and women fire fighters, local fires, being on call, the fire department organization, and equipment used. He also discusses the influx of new residents and local development. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-220 | Interview with Myakka City postmistress Marilyn Roberts Coker | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Community culture
Occupational folklore
Occupational training
Post office buildings
Postal service
Postmasters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City postmistress Marilyn Roberts Coker
- Date
- 1984-02-04
- Description
- One reel to reel. Coker discusses growing up in Myakka, including piano lessons, going to school, the old-timers, and the birth of her children there. She also talks about the local post office, which was a social center, as well as her job with the Federal postal service. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-226 | Interview with Myakka City resident Ellen Richardson | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Community culture
Environment
Pollution
Water pollution
Farming
Ecology
Agricultural ecology
Waterways | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City resident Ellen Richardson
- Date
- 1984-06-12
- Description
- One reel to reel. Richardson talks about environmental concerns of Myakka City. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-218 | Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton | Sound | Farmers
Beekeepers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Family history
Alligators
Distilling, Illicit
Ranching
Hunting
Hunting Anecdotes
Cookery (Alligator)
Fences
Education
Local history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton
- Date
- 1984-02-05
- Description
- One reel to reel. Albritton talks about growing up in Myakka, including hunting (alligators, frogs, and rabbits), ranching, going to school, moonshining, and fishing. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-223 | Interview with Myakka City resident Lois Payne | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Community culture
Turpentine industry workers
African Americans
African Americans Segregation
Timber
Turpentining
Marriage rites
Churches
Religion
Railroads
Family history
Local history
Church services
Leisure | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City resident Lois Payne
- Date
- 1984-06-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. Payne talks about life in Myakka, including turpenting, segregation, marriage practices, timber industry, leisure activities, the Ku Klux Klan, games, churches, and trains. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-216 | Interview with Myakka City residents Brian and Irene Carlton | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Livestock brands
Pigs
Horses
Burning of land
Prescribed burning
Bee culture
Beekeeping
Farm life
Cookery (Mullet)
Canning and preserving
Fishes Eggs
Farmers
Beekeepers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City residents Brian and Irene Carlton
- Date
- 1984-11-12
- Description
- Two reel to reels. The Carltons discuss farm life, hog raising and branding, keeping bees, canning foods, cooking fish roe, picking strawberries and blueberries, raising horses, and controlled buring of land. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-222 | Interview with Myakka City residents Irene and Brian Carlton | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Community culture
Gardening
Gardens
Plants
Vegetable gardening
Kitchen gardens
Churches
Religion
Pigs
Cookery (Pork)
Cooking and dining
Corn bread
Okra
Cookery (Okra)
Gardeners | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City residents Irene and Brian Carlton
- Date
- 1984-06-18
- Description
- Two reel to reel. The Carltons talk about gardening and cooking in Myakka. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-211 | Interview with Myakka City residents Joe and Libby Warner | Sound | Ranchers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Family history
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Ranch life
Ranching
Farm life
Local history
Cattle diseases
Screwworm
Fences
Agriculture
Turpentining
Meat | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City residents Joe and Libby Warner
- Date
- 1984-04-14
- Description
- Three reel to reels. The Warners, longtime Myakka ranchers, talk about cattle ranching, rodeos, raising horses and cattle, cattle diseases, butchering and canning meat, coprorate versus family ranching, fencing land, turpentining, timber, rounding up cattle, rural development, and the history of cows in Manatee county. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-225 | Interview with Myakka City teacher Charlotte Tucker | Sound | Teacher
Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Community culture
Teachers
Teaching
Education
Students
Schools
Churches
Religion
Railroads
Family history
Local history
Church services
Leisure
Educators | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City teacher Charlotte Tucker
- Date
- 1984-06-20
- Description
- One reel to reel. Tucker talks about education in Myakka City, as well as her reaction to Florida, and the local community as a newly arrived resident (in the 1960s). The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-229 | Myakka Community Profile Project slide show master recording | Sound | Fieldwork
Community culture
Community identity
Teaching of folklore
Interviews
Slides (Photography)
Slideshows
Fieldwork (educational method)
Audiotape recordings | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Myakka Community Profile Project slide show master recording
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Two reel to reels. (Duplicate copies can be found in S 1576, box 39, tapes 22-26.) The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
Listen: The Latin Program
