| Justin Brown demonstrating cane cutting to students | Justin Brown demonstrating cane cutting to students | Still Image | Fieldwork
Classrooms
Schools
Elementary schools
Education
Teaching of folklore
Jamaican Americans
Sugar
Sugar crops
Sugarcane
Machetes
Agricultural implements
Agriculture
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Children
Farm workers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Justin Brown demonstrating cane cutting to students
- Date
- 1987-04-24
- Description
- Eighteen color slides. Demonstration for elementary school students. Brown began working for US Sugar in 1950 -- he was recruited by them in Jamaica. He was hired as a cane cutter, which was usually done by hand with a machete. 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
| 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
| Kingsley Plantation | Kingsley Plantation | Still Image | Agriculture
Parks
Historic parks
Cultural parks
Park facilities
Plantations
Plantation life
Architecture
Buildings
Farm buildings
Houses
Furniture
African Americans
Land use
Slavery
Slaves dwellings
Florida history
Tabby (concrete) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Kingsley Plantation
- Date
- 1980-12-12
- Description
- Ten black and white prints. Kingsley Plantation was owned by several planters and slave owners, including John McQueen, John McIntosh, Zephaniah Kingsley, and Anna Kingsley. It became a state park in the 1950s, and a National Park in 1989. P80-415 Kingsley Plantation P80-416 Grounds P80-417-419 Furniture in house P80-420-422 Interior images P80-423-425 Tabby slave cabins P80-426 Woods near plantation
- Collection
| Large wooden farm building on Hwy 131 | Large wooden farm building on Hwy 131 | Still Image | Fieldwork
Material culture
Farm buildings
Structures
Frame buildings
Agriculture
Buildings
Architecture | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Large wooden farm building on Hwy 131
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- Two color slides. The Folk Arts in Schools Project in Columbia and Hamilton County was a joint venture between the county school systems and the Florida Folklife Program. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists.
- Collection
| Mango groves on Pine Island | Mango groves on Pine Island | Still Image | Tree farmers
Fieldwork
Mango
Harvesting
Crops
Trees
Fauna
Agriculture
Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Mango groves on Pine Island
- Date
- Description
- Nine color slides. Bryan manages Gulf Island Groves. The Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project was conducted under the direction of Barbara Beauchamp in two phases: 12 November 1987 through 31 January 1988 by Debbie Fant; and in February 1988 by Nancy Nusz. Using a 35mm camera and a Sony tape recorder, and funded through a NEA grant, the two fieldworkers spoke with over fifty informants in Manatee, Sarasota, Lee, Collier, and Charlotte counties, resulting in 20 participants chosen for a special SW Florida folklife area at the 36th Annual Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes | Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes | Still Image | Latinos
Farm life
Agriculture
Tractors
Farming
Farms
Labor
Workers
Migrants
Occupational groups
Crops
Migrant workers
Farm workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Migrant farmers harvesting sweet potatoes
- Date
- 1985-09-06
- Description
- Thirteen color slides. Images are of Latino migrant workers harvesting sweet potatos; also includes images of pickers and tractor drivers. The Metro-Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| Migrant house in Bryant, Flordia | Migrant house in Bryant, Flordia | Still Image | Agriculture
Migrants
Architecture
Houses
Material culture
Settlement patterns
Seasonal settlement | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Migrant house in Bryant, Flordia
- Date
- Description
- One black and white print. See S 1577, Box 17, folder 46 (images P80-174 through P80-180) for more of same housing. 29 August 1980.
- Collection
| Migrant housing in Bryant, Florida | Migrant housing in Bryant, Florida | Still Image | Migrants
Agriculture
Farmers
Architecture
Houses
Farm workers
Migrant workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Myrtle Dudley at the Dudley Family Farm | Myrtle Dudley at the Dudley Family Farm | Still Image | Folklife
Folklore
Farm life
Farming
Farms
Women
Agriculture
Storytelling
Oral narratives
Storytellers
Farmer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Myrtle Dudley at the Dudley Family Farm
- Date
- 1991-05
- Description
- Eight color slides. Myrtle Dudley lived on the Dudley family farm in Newberry, Florida. The Dudleys were a pioneer family that originally built the farm in the 1850s. In 1983, Ms. Dudley donated the farm complex to the Florida Park Service. She lived on-site until her death in 1996. Images taken for research for the 1991 Florida Folk festival.
- Collection
| Pahokee architecture | Pahokee architecture | Still Image | Fieldwork
Architecture
Buildings
Farm buildings
Houses
Structures
Agriculture
Sugar
Farm life | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Pahokee architecture
- Date
- 1986-08-10
- Description
- Nine color slides. Shotgun houses and a commissary for sugar farmers, mostly for the US Sugar Corporation. 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
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