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Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Date: 1990
Description: Four color slides; 6 negatives. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
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Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 9, 10)

Date: 1997-05-25
Description: Two audio cassette recordings. Johns discusses his life story and talks about his family life as a boy and learning the trade. He also discussed his carved work and his hand-made tools.
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Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 9, 10)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Date: 2000-05-26
Description: One audio cassette tape. Henry Ohumukini continues from C00-64 discussing Hawaiian crafts and dance. Bobby Johns discusses Creek Indian woodcarving.
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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Wood carving workshop at the Stephen Foster Center

Date: 1991-04-13
Description: One proof sheet with thirty-seven black and white images. Images of a carving workshop directed by Bobby Johns at the Stephen Foster Center in White Springs. Johns can be seen in images 9 through 11.
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Wood carving workshop at the Stephen Foster Center

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Date: 1989-05-27
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Patricia Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Wood carver Bobby Johns

Date: 1993
Description: Two color prints. Used for the 1993 Florida Folk Festival booklet.
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Wood carver Bobby Johns

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-26
Description: One reel to reel recording. Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-28
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore. They also disucss hunting, and alligator hunting, as well as insects and pests encountered.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Date: 1989-05-27
Description: One proof sheet with twenty-seven black and white images, plus negatives. 1-3: Mill workers Barbara Dye, Nancy Pywell, Patricia Savin; 4-12: Unidentified fiddlers; 13: Forestry saw operator; 14-17: Gospel Grass, religious bluegrass musical group; 18: Patricia and unidentified participants; 19-22: Unidentified participants; 23-25: Simmons Family Band, bluegrass muscial group; 26-28: Unidentified.
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Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Forest foodways workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Date: 1989-05-26
Description: One reel to reel recording. Patricia Sawin serves as emcee. They discuss swamp cabbage, mullet, corn, canning with hog lard, squirrels, and chicken feet.
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Forest foodways workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart	Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart	Still Image	Apprentices Creek art Wood carving Wood craft Decorative arts Woodwork Woodworking tools Workshops Native Americans Creek Indians Teaching of folklore Carvers (Decorative artists) Wood carvers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_68_c97-094	Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 9, 10)	Sound	Carvers (Decorative artists) Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Oral performance Life histories Interviewing Creek Indians Native Americans Wood carving Woodworking tools Woodwork Decorative arts Wood carvers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_82_c00-065	Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)	Sound	Dancers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Occupational groups Occupational folklore Woodwork Dance Carvers (Decorative artists) Wood carvers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Wood carving workshop at the Stephen Foster Center	Wood carving workshop at the Stephen Foster Center	Still Image	Demonstrations Wood carving Material culture Woodwork Woodworking tools Wood craft Workshops (Adult education) Folklife Wood carvers Carvers (Decorative artists)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t89-071	Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Fishing Fishing baits Baitworms Earthworms Turtles Gopher tortoise Workshops (Adult education) Fishers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Wood carver Bobby Johns	Wood carver Bobby Johns	Still Image	Fieldwork Hats Carvers (Decorative artists) Jewelry Native Americans Wood carvers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t89-059b	Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Fishers Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Fishing Fishing baits Baitworms Earthworms Turtles Gopher tortoise Workshops (Adult education)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-082	Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Fishers Hunters Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Fishing Fishing baits Baitworms Earthworms Turtles Gopher tortoise Workshops (Adult education)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival	Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival	Still Image	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Folklife Demonstrations Stringband music Mills Workers Oral narratives String instruments Fiddles Occupational groups Occupational folklore Fiddlers Musical groups Performers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t89-060	Forest foodways workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area	Sound	Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Food preparation Foodways Seafood Food preservation Canning	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 9, 10)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 9, 10)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Wood carving workshop at the Stephen Foster Center

Wood carving workshop at the Stephen Foster Center

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Wood carver Bobby Johns

Wood carver Bobby Johns

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Forest foodways workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Forest foodways workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

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Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Carvers Bobby Johns and Randy Stewart

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 9, 10)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 9, 10)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 3)

Wood carving workshop at the Stephen Foster Center

Wood carving workshop at the Stephen Foster Center

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Wood carver Bobby Johns

Wood carver Bobby Johns

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Folklife area at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival

Forest foodways workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Forest foodways workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area