| 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_s1622_04_tape08 | Al Ballard interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project | Sound | Beekeepers
Field recordings
Beekeeping
Beehives
Honey
Apiaries
Bees (insects)
Citrus fruits
Plants
Harvesting
Agriculture
Interviews
Oral histories | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Al Ballard interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project
- Date
- 1988-01-27
- Description
- Two audiocassettes. Ballard was born in Myakka City, where his family dates back to 1860. His father was a beekepper, and when Al retired from the U.S. Army in 1978, he began beekeeping. In the interview, he discusses his family history with beekeeping; main prime product: honey; his business Ballard's Apiary; selling honey: methods, equipment, and buyers; handling swarms and queens; tools used; bee hive boxes; transportation; use of citrus, palmetto and mangrove for pollinating; bee bahvior and life cycle; disease control; myths about bees and honey; ideal bee weather; and Africanized bees.
- 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
| a_s1685_07_tape11 | Billy Sanchez interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Supervisors
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Immigration
Cuban Americans
Sugar
Sugarcane
Agricultural implements
Agriculture
Occupational folklore
Jamaican Americans
Labor unions
Employee morale
Agricultural workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Billy Sanchez interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1987-01-17
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. (Note on depositor agreement that interview cannot be reproduced in newspapers.) 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. In the interview, he discusses recruiting cane cutters in Jamaica; training workers; pay schemes; labor camps (set-up, conditions); field burning; types of workers: head pushers, ticket writers, camp supt., demonstrators; unions in Jamaica; and working conditions.
- 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_s1714_04_tape62 | Interview with fern grower James Taylor | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recording
Labor
Occupational groups
Ferns
Crops
Farm life
Agriculture
Farming
Life histories
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Farmer
Farm workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fern grower James Taylor
- Date
- 1985-03-05
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with fern farmer Taylor, who discusses why Pierson was the center of fern belt; history of fern farming; laborers used on such farms; labor involved in growing ferns; selling ferns; his family history; and Latino workers. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the 'St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area' at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| a_s2034_05_cd06-078 | Saturday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 2) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Farm life
Mules
Agriculture
Workshops (Adult education)
Working animals
Domestic animals
Oral narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s2034_05_cd06-080 | Saturday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 4) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Workshops (Adult education)
Agriculture
Fruit
Plants
Farming
Citrus industry | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s2034_05_cd06-083 | Saturday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7) | Sound | Public officer
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Personal experience narratives
Workshops (Adult education)
Oral narratives
Agriculture
Interviews
Public officers
Public officials
Florida history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7)
- Date
- 2006-05-27
- Description
- One compact disc. Stone served as emcee. Martin interviewed Conner. Conner was Florida Commissioner of Agriculture from 1960 to 1990. Born in Starke, Florida on 17 December 1928, Doyle Conner's service in Florida government began in 1950 when he was elected to Florida's House of Representatives while a sophomore at the University of Florida working towards his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture. In 1956, Conner was named Speaker of the House, the youngest person to ever serve in that capacity. He was first elected Commissioner of Agriculture in 1960, and was re-elected commissioner for the next seven elections. Conner retired from that office in 1990. Here Conner discusses the issues he dealt while Commissioner and the state of Florida agriculture in 2006.
- Collection
| a_s2034_05_cd06-088 | Saturday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 12) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Workshops (Adult education)
Women vintners
Agriculture
Wine
Occupational groups
Grapes
Vintners | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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