| a_s1640_20_tape10 | Interview with Hungarian embroiderers Margaret Horvath and Elizabeth Spreckelsen | Sound | Needleworkers
Embroiderers
Apprentices
Interviews
Sound recordings
Emigration and immigration
Family history
Embroidery
Needlework
German Americans
Hungarians Americans
Teaching of folklore
Textile arts
Decorative arts
Design
Life histories
Oral histories
Occupational groups | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Hungarian embroiderers Margaret Horvath and Elizabeth Spreckelsen
- Date
- 1985-03-06
- Description
- One audio cassette. Spreckelsen apprenticed under Margaret Horvath in 1984-1985. Horvath was a Hungarian and moved to the U.S. in 1970. Spreckelsen was from a German American family in New York City. They discuss immigration; family history; learning embroidery; types of Hungarian embroidery; designs; and teaching embroidery. For a transcript, see S 1640, box 2, folder 9. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1576_23_c86-195 | Interview with Rabbi Yitzclok Adler | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Jewish Americans
Religion
Religious rites
Naming practices
Rites of passage
Holidays
Judaism
Churches
Synagogues
Antisemitism
Jews
Torah
Bar mitzvah
Confirmation (Jewish rite)
Scrolls
Rabbis | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Rabbi Yitzclok Adler
- Date
- 1984-08-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Born in New York City to German parents, Adler spent most of his life in the US South. He discusses Judaism in the South including his training to be a rabbi; the art of Torah scroll writing; repairing Torah scrolls; Torah origins and interpretations; activities associated with the Sabbath; laws of Kosher; the Jewish community in Jacksonville; Jewish holidays; rites of passage: naming, circumcision, redemption of first born, bar mitzvah; significance of the synagogue; and anti-Semitism. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| a_s1708_04_tape06 | Interview with wood carver Harold Dunn | Sound | Fieldwork
Circus wagons
Material culture
Wagons
Woodwork
Wood carving
Decorative arts
Wood craft
Woodworking tools
Workshops
Miniatures
Miniature craft
Oral histories
Life histories
Sound recordings
Interviews
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Wood carvers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with wood carver Harold Dunn
- Date
- 1986-12-12
- Description
- Three audio cassettes. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk art between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
- Collection
| a_s1685_04_tape05 | Mary Brandenburg interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Basket making
Field recordings
German Americans
Interviews
Baskets
Pine straw
Family history
Oral narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Mary Brandenburg interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1987-08-28
- Description
- One audio cassette. Brandenburg was originally from Pennsylvania; her family was part of the Gaudy Dutch, famous for their hex paintings. She discusses basket making; types of baskets (pine needle, willow); designs; lids and handles; her family history; learning the art from her mother; moving to Florida; and uses of her baskets.
- Collection
| a_s1618_04_tape03 | Peggy Hollowell interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Needlework
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Quilting
Embroidery
Family history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Peggy Hollowell interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-07-27
- Description
- One audio tape. The Kansas-born Hollowell, a homemaker, explains quilt making. She discusses learning the craft from her mother; the quilting tradition in her German-American family; uses of quilts; family history; relief quilts; popularity of quilting; common patterns; Dunkard communities; quilting in Jacksonville; and quilting in Indiana.
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| a_s1640_22_tape16 | Recording of a music rehearsal by autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger | Sound | Fieldwork
Zither
Autoharp
String instruments
Musical instruments
German Americans
Women apprentices
Music rehearsals
Old time music
Country music
Apprentices
Harpists
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recording of a music rehearsal by autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger
- Date
- 1991-05-05
- Description
- One DAT tape. 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 2004.
- Collection
| a_s1576_38_tape17 | Recordings of the 1987 Summer Folk Culture Seminar | Sound | Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Teaching of folklore
Education
Teachers
Folklife
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Storytelling
Tales
Teacher
Educators
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recordings of the 1987 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
- Date
- 1987-07-13
- Description
- Ten audio cassettes. (The final tape appears to be blank.) The theme for this year was Seminole Indian folklore. The main speaker was Dr. Rayna Green, director of the American Indian Program with the Smithsonian Institute. A graduate from the Indian university folklife program, she researched and wrote on Native American culture and images. She also taught at several universities, and published several books. Other speakers included traditional healer Jeanette Cypress and Seminole Tribe of Florida president James Billie.
- Collection
| a_s1640_22_tape17 | Sampler tape of autoharp player Charley Groth | Sound | Old time music
Music performance
Zither
Autoharp
String instruments
Musical instruments
German Americans
Harpists
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Sampler tape of autoharp player Charley Groth
- Date
- 1990
- Description
- One audio tape. 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 2004.
- Collection
| American German Club dancing at the I Am An American | American German Club dancing at the I Am An American | Still Image | Fieldwork
Festivals
Folk dance
German Americans
Clothing and dress
Stepdancing
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
American German Club dancing at the I Am An American
- Date
- 1986-08-16
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
- Collection
| Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger | Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger | Still Image | Fieldwork
Apprentices
Zither
Autoharp
String instruments
Musical instruments
German Americans
Teaching of folklore
Harpists
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger
- Date
- 1991-05
- Description
- 105 color slides. 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.
- Collection
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