| a_s1576_38_tape16 | Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Community culture
Family history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t81-100 | Interview with Stetson Kennedy | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Folklore
New Deal, 1933-1939
United States. Work Projects Administration
Painters
Artists
Publishers and publishing
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Collecting
Labor unions
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Authors
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Stetson Kennedy
- Date
- 1981-09-22
- Description
- Three reel to reel recordings. In the interview, Kennedy discusses Stanley Papio; the WPA and the Federal Writers Project; working with anthropologist/writer Zora Neale Hurston; Carita Doggett Corse; collecting folklife during the 1930s; painter Mario Sanchez; his many books; infiltrating the KKK; work with labor unions; and the reprinting of the Folk Songs of Florida by Alton Morris, and Kennedy's Palmetto Country. Stetson Kennedy was one of the earliest folklorists working in Florida. Born in 1916, the Jacksonville native began collecting Northeast Florida folk sayings as a teenager. After a stint at the University of Florida, Kennedy joined the Florida WPA Writers Project in 1937 to administer the folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies section. Among the workers he supervised was novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Soon thereafter he published Palmetto Country, an exploration of Florida folklife edited by Erskine Caldwell. His papers from the WPA are housed within the Florida Folklife Collection. Although he remained a lifelong folklife supporter, in the 1940s and 1950s, Kennedy also worked to end Jim Crow laws and helped exposed the Ku Klux Klan with several publications. The recipient of many awards, including the Florida Folk Heritage Award and the NAACP Freedom Award, he was also the subject of Library of Congress' folklorist Peggy Bulger's dissertation. Among his books are Southern Exposure, The Klan Unmasked, and South Florida Folklife, co-authored with Bulger and Tina Bucuvalas. Bulger wrote her dissertation on Kennedy. Copied onto C81-71, C81-72 & C81-73.
- Collection
| a_s1576_38_tape11 | John French oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Community culture
Church services
Family history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
John French oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival
- Date
- 1990-01-02
- Description
- One audio cassette. French was born in Jacksonville but grew up in Eatonville. He talks about his life, life in Eatonville, and Zora Neale Hurston. His memory was very poor. Nusz conducted several interviews for the first Zora Neale Hurston Festival held at the end of January of 1990.
- Collection
| a_s1576_38_tape12 | Mildred Board oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Community culture
Church services
Family history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Mildred Board oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival
- Date
- 1990-01-26
- Description
- One audio cassette. First part of the tape is blank. Recorded in her home,Board talks about her life, community life in Eatonville, and Zora Neale Hurston. Nusz conducted several interviews for the first Zora Neale Hurston Festival held at the end of January of 1990.
- Collection
| a_s1576_38_tape14 | Oral history with Annie Lue Davis | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
African Americans
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Community culture
Family history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Oral history with Annie Lue Davis
- Date
- 1990-01-27
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recorded in her home, Davis talks about her life, community life in Eatonville, and Zora Neale Hurston. Nusz conducted several interviews for the first Zora Neale Hurston Festival held at the end of January of 1990.
- Collection
| a_s1576_64_c96-070 | Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Fieldwork
Folklife
Oral histories
Hurricanes
Florida history
New Deal, 1933-1939
United States. Work Projects Administration
Folklore
Authors
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 10)
- Date
- 1996-05-25
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Stetson Kennedy (introduced by Tina Bucuvalas) discusses the WPA and projects they conducted in Florida recording early songs and stories of the state. He notes that minorities were included in the project and speaks of the contributions of Zora Neale Hurston in collecting early history. He also discusses the 1936 Keys Hurricane and working with Allen Lomax.
- Collection
| a_s1576_32_c94-034 | Storytellers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Storytelling Auditorium) (Saturday) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Narratives
Trickster tales
Animal tales
Tales
Great Depression
Ghosts
Supernatural legends
Fishing stories
Hunting stories
Arts, Haitian
Haitian Americans
African Americans
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Storytellers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Storytelling Auditorium) (Saturday)
- Date
- 1994-05-28
- Description
- Six audio cassette recordings. Storytellers spoke between 10:00am and 2pm at the Storytelling Auditorium. The coordinator was Peggy Smith. (The Storytelling Tent area, coordinated by Nancy Case, and featuring some of the same storytellers, was not recorded.) Larkin, of Atlanta, spoke twice; the first time to fill in for the two absent storytellers: John Johnson and Margie Baldwin. Cappa, (of Williamsport, PA), Roy (of Fort Myers), and Rivers (of Ybor City) were audience members participating in the Cousin Thelma Story Swap. Harshbarger, of Tallahassee, used finger puppets in her presentation. Smith and Seaman were from Jacksonville. Louis resided in Miami.
- Collection
| a_s1576_38_tape13 | Vivian Hall Boston oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Community culture
Family history
Education | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Vivian Hall Boston oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival
- Date
- 1990-01-28
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recorded in her home, Boston talks about her life, community life in Eatonville, and Zora Neale Hurston. Nusz conducted several interviews for the first Zora Neale Hurston Festival held at the end of January of 1990.
- Collection
| Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991 | Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991 | Still Image | A capella singing
Churches
Church services
Protestants
Hats
Special events
Music
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
African Americans
Haircutting
Barbering | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991
- Date
- 1991-01
- Description
- One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Zora Neale Hurston was a major literary figure, known as one of the nation's preeminent African American writers. She was from Eatonville. Now, each January, the town holds a festival in her honor. 1-2: Jamie Lee Harell; 3-4: Orlando School of Culture and Dance performing; 5-11: Vaughan McCall demonstrating hair styling; 12-14: Washington Sisters singing a capella; 15-18: Gloria's Hats 19-21: Elden Earl Madison 22-36: St. James Church worshiping (33-36: Rev. Nolan Pitts preaching).
- Collection
| Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991 | Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991 | Still Image | African Americans
Special events
Festivals
Barbecue cookery
Craft
Demonstrations
Food
Food preparation | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991
- Date
- 1991-01
- Description
- One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white prints. Zora Neale Hurston was a major literary figure, known as one of the nation's preeminent African American writers. She was from Eatonville. Now, each January, the town holds a festival in her honor. 1-4: Festival organizer David Closson; 5-6: Conch and crab fritters by Deborah Chester; 7-12: Good Samaritan foods (BBQ); 13-14: painting called "Wandering Feather;" 15-16: Jewelry maker; 17-19: Clark Fashions; 20-26: George Alexander making BBQ; 27-30: Unidentified; 31-36: Patti's Thing (Jamaican pattie).
- Collection
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