| a_s1576_t81-027 | Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair | Sound | Festivals
Fairs
Demonstrations
Craft
Folklife
Boat drivers
Occupational folklore
African Americans
Public speaking
Polka music
Oral narratives
Polka
Performing arts
Music performance
Boat driver
Folklorists
Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair
- Date
- 1981-02-13
- Description
- Seven reel to reels. Recordings of the folklife demonstration booths at the Florida State Fair. Informants at the Big Bend Folklife Area include Wakulla Springs boat drivers (Jackson/Gavin) and the Polka Sweethearts.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-048 | Saturday performances at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 9) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Folk singers
Guitar music
Boat drivers
African Americans
Ecotourism
Oral performance
Tours
Vietnamese Americans
Arts, Vietnamese
Women dancers
Dance
International dances
Folk dancing
Singers
Musicians
Dancers
Guitarist
Boat driver
Orators
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday performances at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 9)
- Date
- 1981-05-23
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Jackson and Gavin were boat drivers at Wakulla Springs. Boat tours have been given at the springs on since the late 1800s. Many of the 1980s drivers were descendents of those early drivers, and provide some of the same folk tales. The springs was developed as a tourist attraction in the 1930s (and became a Florida state park in 1987.) Singer-songwriter-guitarist McLean played & sang while Lais interpreted his songs through dance.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-008 | Wakulla Springs glass bottom boat tours (and interview) by Tommy (Hawk) Jackson | Sound | Boat driver
Orators
Fieldwork
Boats and boating
Oral performance
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tours
Boat drivers
Transportation
Springs
Attractions
Interviews
Waterways
Fauna
Flora
Occupational folklore
Occupational training
Glass bottom boats
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Wakulla Springs glass bottom boat tours (and interview) by Tommy (Hawk) Jackson
- Date
- 1980-11-09
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Recordings of two glass-bottom boat tour spiels conducted by Jackson. He discusses various animals, birds, and trees on the tour, history of the attraction, legends of the springs, Henry the pole vaulting fish, and other natural features. Boat tours have been given at the springs on since the late 1800s. Many of the 1980s drivers were descendents of those early drivers, and provide some of the same folk tales. One tale/feature was Henry the Pole Vaulting Fish, a bass fish that jumped over a pole (actually scratching its gills). The springs was developed as a tourist attraction in the 1930s (and became a Florida state park in 1987.) Images of some of the drivers can be found in S 1577, v. 7.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t81-059 | Sunday performances at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 10) | Sound | Musicians
Singers
Boat driver
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
String bands
Stringband music
Ecotourism
Boat drivers
African Americans
Oral performance
Arts, Irish
Celtic music
Songs, Irish
Old time music
Bluegrass music
Bands (Music)
Bluegrass musicians
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Sunday performances at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 10)
- Date
- 1981-05-24
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Jackson and Gavin were boat drivers at Wakulla Springs. Boat tours have been given at the springs on since the late 1800s. Many of the 1980s drivers were descendents of those early drivers, and provide some of the same folk tales. The springs was developed as a tourist attraction in the 1930s (and became a Florida state park in 1987.) Images of the drivers can be found in S 1577, v. 7. The start of the New Sand Mountain Wildcats performance can be found on T81-58. The Peyton Brothers continued on T81-60.
- Collection
| Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair | Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair | Still Image | Festivals
Fairs
Demonstrations
Craft
Folklife
Boat drivers
Occupational folklore
African Americans
Teaching of folklore
Egg decoration
Eggs
Polka
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Fishing lures
Wood carving
Music performance
Wood carvers
Musical groups
Artisans
Boat driver
Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Big Bend Folklife demonstrations at the 1981 Florida State Fair
- Date
- 1981-08-31
- Description
- Seventy-seven color slides. Folklife demonstration booths at the Florida State Fair. Culled from informants at the Big Bend Folklife Area, demonstrations include pysanky egg decoration, Wakulla Springs boat drivers (Jackson), wood carving (fishing lures by Woodward and Jones), and polka music by the Polka Sweethearts.
- Collection
| Boat drivers at Wakulla Springs | Boat drivers at Wakulla Springs | Still Image | Tourists
Tourism
Ecotourism
African Americans
Fishes
Boat drivers
Boat driving
Rivers
Waterways
Transportation
Oral performance
Nature
Fauna
Flora
Birds
Trees
Amusement parks
Wildlife watching industry
Occupational groups
Boat driver
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Boat drivers at Wakulla Springs
- Date
- 1980-10
- Description
- Eighty-one color slides. Images of Wakulla Springs boat drivers. Glass bottom boat tour over the deep springs had been going on since the late 1800s. Many of these drivers are descendents of those early drivers, and provide some of the same folk tales. One tale/feature was Henry the Pole Vaulting Fish, a bass fish that jumped over a pole (actually scratching its gills). The springs was developed as a tourist attraction in the 1930s (and became a Florida state park in 1987.) Drivers pictured: George Bower(640-657, 813-814); Jackson (765-781); Moretz (784-785); and Gavin (790-793). Henry the fish pictured in 759-763, 781. Also includes are images of the river, alligators, fish, cypress trees, and plant life.
- Collection
| Boat tours at Wakulla Springs | Boat tours at Wakulla Springs | Still Image | Fieldwork
Boats
Boats and boating
Boat drivers
Boat driving
Glass bottom boats
Fishes
Rivers
Springs
Transportation
Docks
Waterways
Tour guides (Persons)
Ecotourism
Tourism
Tourists
Hotels
Alligators
Boat driver | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Boat tours at Wakulla Springs
- Date
- 1980-10
- Description
- Seventy-seven color slides. Images of boat tours at Wakulla Springs, a tourist attraction dating back to the 1930s. Many of the tours and features (such as the pole vaulting fish, a bass fish which rubs its gills on a wooden pole in the spring) date back to the 1800s. Images include the river, fauna and flora, the springs, the boat drivers and their boats, and the attraction's 1938 lodge. (Today the area is a state park.) Most of these images are duplicated in S 1577, v. 7, S81-741 - S81-820.
- Collection
| Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival | Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Demonstrations
African Americans
Needlework
Textile arts
Woven goods
Material culture
Boat driver
Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1982-05
- Description
- One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images, plus negatives. Demonstrations at the Florida Folk Festival, culled from fieldwork performed by the Big Bend Folklife Survey. 1-6: Wakulla Springs boat drivers Hawk Jackson and Wilbert Gavin; 7-11: Feather baster; 12:-20: Czechoslovakian needlework by Isabel Skrceny; 21-36: Various festival images.
- Collection
| Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla Springs | Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla Springs | Still Image | African Americans
Boats and boating
Narratives
Tall tales
Storytelling
Storytellers
Oral performance
Oral communication
Rivers
Springs
Tourism
Workplace
Workers
Labor
Glass bottom boats
Ecotourism
Wildlife watching industry
Boat driver
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla Springs
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- Black and white 9.5 x 14 inch mounted photographic print. Images of Wakulla Springs, a popular tourist located just south of Tallahassee that offered boat tours and lodging. One of the features on the tours was Henry the Fish, a bass fish that would appear to jump over a pole when called. Hawk Jackson died in 2001.
- Collection
| Images for the Library Folklife Program, Pastimes and Pursuits | Images for the Library Folklife Program, Pastimes and Pursuits | Still Image | Boat driver
Woodworkers
Whip maker
Basket maker
Ecotourism
Tourism
Folk dance
Clothing and dress
Whips
Whip making
Fishing lures
Dogs
Vietnamese
Basket making
Boat driving
Dancers
Hunters
Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images for the Library Folklife Program, Pastimes and Pursuits
- Date
- 1983
- Description
- Ten 8x12 color images. Duplicates of earlier fieldwork photographs, these prints were created for the Library Folklife Program, Pursuits and Pastimes. Includes Wilbert Gavin and Hawk Jackson driving tour boats at Wakulla Springs, Joe Klotz driving a boat at Silver Springs, a woman in a quince dress, Edenfield with his hunting dogs, Jones making fishing lures, Phem making a rice basket, Sheppard making a whip, Vietnamese dancers at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival, and a worker making a citrus ladder. A traveling exhibit concerning the occupational groups in Florida relating to tourism and recreation. The exhibit used text and images from the Folklife Program's fieldwork files. There was also a booklet that accompanied the exhibit (found in S 1606, box 2, folder 5). More images of the exhibit can be found in S 1606, box 2, folder 1, and box 1, folder 9.
- Collection
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