14 items found
Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Tradition Bearer is exactly "Saunders, Lillian, 1893-1985"
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Friday morning performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Friday morning performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Date
1966-05-06
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. The Wiggins Sisters (Betsy and Hallie) played the bottlephone, a musical instrument using hanging bottles that were struck to produce a sound. This was popular storyteller Tomlin's (of White Springs) last festival. She passed away later the same month.
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Friday morning performances at the 1969 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Friday morning performances at the 1969 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Date
1969-05-02
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. (The second half of the reel consists of Friday afternoon performances -- see separate entry for details.) Saunders was the chairman of the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission. Meadows was White Springs' mayor. Housewright was the Dean of Music for Florida State University. Shore was from Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation. Knott was the festival's first director. The Caney Forkers were based out of Cookeville, Tennessee. The Wiggins (Velma and daughter Hallie) lived in Bradenton. For You Are My Sunshine, they played the musical bottlephone. Hall lived in Sarasota, and sang mountain ballads.
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Friday morning performances of the 1967 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Friday morning performances of the 1967 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Date
1967-05-05
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Nolan, of Miami, was the 1967 Jeannie With Light Brown Hair.
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Friday morning performances of the 1968 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Friday morning performances of the 1968 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Date
1968-05-03
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee.
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Images from the 1985 Florida Folk Heritage Awards ceremony

Images from the 1985 Florida Folk Heritage Awards ceremony

Date
1985
Description
Five proofs with 132 black and white images (plus negatives). This was the first year the award was given out. Held at the Florida State Capitol, Secretary of State George Firestone handed awards out to Boltin, Clark, Billie, Saunders, and Frog Smith. Florida Folklife Program folklorists Bulger and Taylor were also on hand. Other folk artists also were there performing, such as Greek bagpiper Tsimouris.
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Lillian Saunders interview

Lillian Saunders interview

Date
1963-08-22
Description
Two reel-to-reel recordings. Saunders speaks on the history of the Stephen Foster Memorial park and recounts its establishment. She discusses Josiah Lilly and Foster Barnes' involvement. She was a member of the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission and her family donated land to the Stephen Foster Memorial (now Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park).
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Meeting of the Florida Folklife Council, 9 December 1981

Meeting of the Florida Folklife Council, 9 December 1981

Date
1981-12-09
Description
Two audio cassettes. Council Members present: Catherine Sugrue, Lillian Saunders, Ronald Foreman, E.W. Carswell; Council Members absent: James Billie, Alan Jabbour, Miguel Gonzalez-Pando; Florida Folklife Program Staff: Lee Warner (Acting Director), Merri Belland (Folk Arts Coordinator), Peggy Bulger (Arts Administrator), Doris Dyen (Historian), Iris Greene (Secretary), John Marshall (Folk Arts Coordinator), Betsy Peterson (Arts Administrator), Bob McNeil (Archives Assistant), Visitors: David Closson, Rosemary Closson, Ross Morrell, and Sharon Perry, Lake City Reporter. For minutes and details of the meeting, see the S 1579, box 1, folder: Indexes for C84-102 through C84-125. The Florida Folklife Council (FFC) was created by legislation in 1979 (79-322, SB 1203) within the Department of State to advise the Secretary of State on issues relating to folk arts and folk life as well as stimulate and encourage statewide public interest and participation in folk arts and folklore, sponsor conferences and workshops throughout the state, and make recommendations for the development of a statewide Florida Folk Arts program. The Florida Folklife Council consists of seven members appointed by the Secretary of State for four-year terms.
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Performances at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Performances at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Date
1970-05
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Saunders was the chairman of the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission. Meadows was White Springs' mayor. Morris was a professor at the University of Florida. Keen was from White Springs. Godwin was from Hawthorne. Thrailkill was a poet from Wauchula. Borns lived in Daytona Beach. The LeFevre Family were based out of Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

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Performances at the 1973 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Performances at the 1973 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Date
1973-08-31
Description
One reel to reel recordings. Boltin served as emcee. Wiggins played the musical bottlephone. The audience sang Dumbarton's Drums in tribute to long-time festival performer Bob Beers, who died in a car accident in 1972.
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Saturday morning performances at the 1959 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Saturday morning performances at the 1959 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Date
1959-05-02
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Detailed information on the performers can be found on the 1959 festival program, located in S 1619, box 1.
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Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1576_t77-154Friday morning performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)SoundSingers
Storytellers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
African Americans
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Elementary schools
Trickster tales
Animal tales
Oral narratives
Children
Choruses
Musicians
Students
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a_s1576_t77-208aFriday morning performances at the 1969 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)SoundFestivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Guitar music
Dance
Old time music
African Americans
Bluegrass music
Folk singers
Elementary schools
Mayors
Jump rope rhymes
Singers
Dancers
Public officer
Orators
Children
Choruses
Musicians
Students
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a_s1576_t77-170Friday morning performances of the 1967 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)SoundSingers
Guitarist
Secretary of State
Public officer
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Guitar music
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Secretaries of State (State governments)
Florida. Office of Secretary of State (1961-1969 : Adams)
Music performance
Maypoles
Elementary schools
Children
Musicians
Students
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a_s1576_t77-180Friday morning performances of the 1968 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)SoundSingers
Guitarist
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Guitar music
Boy Scouts
Scouts and scouting
Indian dance
Musical saws
Maypoles
Elementary schools
Children
Musicians
Students
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Images from the 1985 Florida Folk Heritage Awards ceremonyImages from the 1985 Florida Folk Heritage Awards ceremonyStill ImageAwards
Public officers
Public officials
Demonstrations
Craft
Folklorists
Secretaries of State (State governments)
Florida. Dept. of State (1979-1987 : Firestone)
African Americans
Bagpipers
Tsabouna
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a_s2043_00153Lillian Saunders interviewSoundMemorials
Florida history
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a_s1576_14_c84-103Meeting of the Florida Folklife Council, 9 December 1981SoundPublic officer
Meetings
Folklife
Folklore
Arts administrators
Oral communication
Public officers
Public officials
Folklorists
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a_s1576_t77-213Performances at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)SoundFestivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Guitar music
Dance
Old time music
Bluegrass music
Folk singers
Elementary schools
Mayors
Storytelling
Trickster tales
Animal tales
Oral narratives
Singers
Dancers
Public officer
Orators
Children
Choruses
Girl Scouts
Musicians
Storytellers
Students
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a_s1576_t77-233Performances at the 1973 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)SoundFestivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Old time music
Fiddle music
Banjo music
String bands
Stringband music
Bluegrass music
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Mikasuki language
Florida history
Puppet theater
Puppet drama
Tall tales
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Folk singers
Singers
Guitarist
Bluegrass musicians
Bands (Music)
Musicians
Puppeteers
Storytellers
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a_s1576_t77-082Saturday morning performances at the 1959 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)SoundFestivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Creek Indians
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Oral performance
Singers
Bands (Music)
Children
Musicians
Students
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