| a_s1576_10_c83-102 | Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr. | Sound | Turpentiners
Farmer
Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Turpentine industry and trade
Turpentining
Agriculture
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
Tractors
Mules | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr.
- Date
- 1983-04-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C83-102: Macmillan discussed how Two Egg, Florida, and Paramour, Florida, were named; his birth in Grand Ridge, Florida, in 1910; his and his father's work in turpentining; getting into the farming business after the turpentining industry's decline; farming with mules and, later, with tractors in the 1930s; raising peanuts, soy beans, and corn; his son's work in cattle farming; blacksmithing; canning and preserving food; and magic and omens in farming. He also tell stories about voting Republican due to promises of racial equality and talks about "Hoover Days" and the Depression; old farming sayings and practices; and making moonshine from cane skimmings. C83-103: McMullian discusses visiting the Florida Folk Festival; collecting antique engines as a hobby; the turpentining process; tally calls and tally boards; "raking" trees; enjoying his work in the turpentine industry; bank loans; and trains and business transportation. In addition, he tells a story about the first toilet he ever saw and talks about losing crops in droughts and from nematodes; his father's employment in a large farm; fiddle and piano music and dances; Sacred Harp music; African-Americans; square dancing and clogging; serenades, housewarmings, and quilting parties; and farming in cold weather.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-211 | Interview with Myakka City residents Joe and Libby Warner | Sound | Ranchers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Family history
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Ranch life
Ranching
Farm life
Local history
Cattle diseases
Screwworm
Fences
Agriculture
Turpentining
Meat | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Myakka City residents Joe and Libby Warner
- Date
- 1984-04-14
- Description
- Three reel to reels. The Warners, longtime Myakka ranchers, talk about cattle ranching, rodeos, raising horses and cattle, cattle diseases, butchering and canning meat, coprorate versus family ranching, fencing land, turpentining, timber, rounding up cattle, rural development, and the history of cows in Manatee county. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
- Collection
| a_s1685_07_tape15 | Karen Spooner interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Farmers
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Occupational folklore
Agriculture
Farm life
Family history
Sugarcane
Burning of land
Green beans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Karen Spooner interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1987-09-03
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Karen Spooner farmed Hub Spooner Farms with her husband John, She was from Milwaukee, Wisconsin originally, while his family had been farming the same land for several generations. Growing sugar and green beans, they were some of the only independent farmer sin the area. In the interview she discusses sugar farming; cane cutting; learning the trade; the Spooner family; migrant workers; burning fields; and the farm industry.
- Collection
| a_s1685_05_tape29 | William & Lois DuBois interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Agriculture
Peppers
Harvesting
Crops
Family farms
Farm life
Agricultural workers
Local histories
Ranching
Foodways | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
William & Lois DuBois interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1987-08-06
- Description
- Three audio cassettes. William & Lois DuBois discuss farming peppers. W. DuBois moved to Florida from Oklahoma in 1934, and married L. DuBois in 1936. They began growing green beans, squash, and lima beans before moving to peppers. In the interview, they discuss farm life; planting, growing, harvesting, and selling peppers; types of peppers; diseases and care of peppers; the many jobs needed to grow and sell peppers; farm labor relations; farm brokers; life in Deland and Boynton Beach; land development; cattle ranching; and related legal issues of pepper farming in Florida.
- Collection
| Agricultural fields in Hastings, Florida | Agricultural fields in Hastings, Florida | Still Image | Artisans
Fieldwork
Agriculture
Crops
Plants
Farming
Minorcans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Asa May House in Capps, Florida | Asa May House in Capps, Florida | Still Image | Agriculture
Architecture
Houses
Buildings
Material culture
Settlement patterns
Farm buildings
Greek Revival (architecture)
Plantations
Plantation life
Plantation owner
Farmer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Asa May House in Capps, Florida
- Date
- 1981-01-15
- Description
- Three black and white prints. Asa May was a cotton planter and owner of Rosewood Plantation, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house dates from c. 1840, and was made of cypress and heart pine. Capps is located South of Monticello, Florida.
- Collection
| Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting | Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting | Still Image | Fieldwork
Classrooms
Schools
Elementary schools
Education
Occupational training
Cuban Americans
Sugar
Sugar crops
Sugarcane
Oral education
Agricultural implements
Agriculture
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Children
Farm workers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Billy Sanchez explainging sugar cane growing and cutting
- Date
- 1987-04-28
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. Images of Sanchez talking one on one with students. Sanchez oversees cane burning and cutting, as well as recruiting workers for a local sugar grower. His father was rancher in Cuba, who left as political exiles in the 1960s. 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
| Buildings at Morningside Nature Center | Buildings at Morningside Nature Center | Still Image | Fieldwork
Architecture
Buildings
Log buildings
Farm buildings
Tourism
Farm life
Farming
Agriculture
Chickens
Domestic animals
Wagons
Folklorism
Roofs
Frame buildings
Outbuildings
Porches
Historic preservation | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Buildings at Morningside Nature Center
- Date
- 1978
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. Details of farm building construction at Morningside Nature Center, including wagons, corner joints, waddle and daub, shingles, and fencing. The living history farm at the nature center -- which promotes natural and historical education -- dates to 1840. Missing is slide S77-614.
- Collection
| Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex | Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex | Still Image | Farmers
Farm buildings
Farm life
Farm workers
Sugarcane
Sugarcane grinding
Agriculture
Material culture
Family farming
Cash crops
Sugar crops
Architecture
Food industry and trade
Structures
Cane syrup
Food preparation | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex
- Date
- 1989-11
- Description
- Ninety-seven color slides. Images of cane grinding at the Dudley Farms complex. Today a state park, Dudley Farms had been used as the Dudley family farm since the 1840s. Donated to the state in 1984 by Myrtle Dudley, the Bureau of Florida Folklife was contracted by the Florida Park Service to survey the sugarcane grinding complex at the farms. The final result, as a report of the findings,is available in S 1597.
- Collection
| Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex | Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex | Still Image | Farmers
Farm buildings
Agriculture
Architecture
Structures
Family farming
Farm life
Farm workers
Farms
Sugar crops
Sugarcane grinding
Sugarcane products
Cane syrup
Material culture
Tools
Agricultural implements | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cane grinding at the Dudley Farm complex
- Date
- 1989-11
- Description
- Twelve proof sheets with 384 black and white images. Images of cane grinding at the Dudley Farms complex. Today a state park, Dudley Farms had been used as the Dudley family farm since the 1840s. Donated to the state in 1984 by Myrtle Dudley, the Bureau of Florida Folklife was contracted by the Florida Park Service to survey the sugarcane grinding complex at the farm. The final result was a report of the Bureau's findings, available in S 1597. Logs are included with the proof sheets.
- Collection
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