| 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_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_s1576_09_c83-046 | Charles Usina interview | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Farm life
Agriculture
Minorcan Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Charles Usina interview
- Date
- 1982-10-27
- Description
- One audio cassette. Usina and his family talk about Minorcan work in the farming, fishing, timber, and turpentine industries.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-112 | Friday performances at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Reel 4) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Singing
Corridos
Performing arts
Ballads
Guitar music
Guitarists
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Folk music Mexico
Latinos
Music Latin America
Ethnicity, Mexico
Workshops (Adult education)
Pinatas
Leisure
Ferns
Oral education
Farming
Tacos
Cookery, Mexican
Cooking and dining
Agriculture
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Musicians
Singers
Bluegrass musicians
Bands (Music)
Cooks
Artisans
Guitarist
Blues singers
Farm workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday performances at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Reel 4)
- Date
- 1985-05-24
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Folklorist Owens served as emcee. Corrido music consist of ballads/narrative songs that roiginated in Mexico in the mid-1800s. Folklorist Figgen served as moderator for the workshop. The workshop came out of research for the St. Johns River Survey. Grimm discussed pinata making, Castillo talked aboau farming ferns, and Castillo discussed taco making. Folklorist McDonald introduced Thompson. Thompson was from Hastings.
- Collection
| a_s1576_33_c94-050 | Friday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshop Stage) (Tape 2) | Sound | Farm workers
Storytellers
Farmers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Workshops (Adult education)
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Citrus fruit industry
Citrus industry
Agriculture
Farming
Orange industry
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Tales | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_02_c78-047 | Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark | Sound | Basket maker
Interviews
Basket work
Basket making
Basketry
African Americans
White oak
Family history
Life histories
Agriculture
Family farming
Seed crops
Food preparation
Food habits
Plants
Flora
Harvesting
Healers
Medicine
Fieldwork | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark
- Date
- 1978-04-14
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side 1: Clarke, born in Jefferson County in 1904, started making white oak baskets when she was 13. She learned to do so from her parents and grandparents and discusses the types of baskets she made and explains how she makes them. She also discusses her grandparents - - who were once slaves - - and talks about the changes Lamont, Florida, has undergone throughout the years. In addition, she talks about planting and harvesting collards, peas, sweet corn, tomatoes, okra, and snap beans, and she discusses cooking collards and snap beans. Side 2: Clarke continues her discussion on foods and wild plants like the palm tree bud [??], polk salad (poisonous), elephant ears, tanion, and pepper grass. Also, she describes home remedies such as mint, ragweed, tallow, turpentine and camphos, castor oil and turpentine, cow water (for whooping cough), "Yellow Gal" (for fever), asaphidity bag. Further, she talks about growing up on a plantation, travels to Syracuse, New York, New Jersey, and Naples, Florida, talks about her relatives, and discusses finishing baskets by soaking them in water for a brown finish.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t80-105 | Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
African Americans
Family farming
Sugarcane grinding
Agriculture
Farm life
Animals
Domestic animals
Stoves, Wood
Equipment, domestic arts
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Farmers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry
- Date
- 1980-10-29
- Description
- One reel to reel. Interview with farmers who were neighbors of Lucreaty Clark (she also talks on the recording). Topics include farming, farm animals, marriage, wood stoves, cane grinding, chores, railroad work, and mules. For images of Perry's farm, see S 1577, box 17, box 83.
- 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_s1576_10_c83-104 | Interview with Fred Williams | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Turpentine industry and trade
Turpentining
Agriculture
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
New Deal, 1933-1939
Musical tradition, sacred
Shape note singing
World War, 1939-1945
Broom making
Farmer
Broom makers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Fred Williams
- Date
- 1983-04-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C83-104: Williams, born in Sneads, Florida, in 1923, discusses being raised in a rural farming family in Jackson County, Florida; joining the Army and using his disabled veterans' pension to start his own farm; the character of his family; life during the "Hoover Days" of the Depression; the Wesleyan Church creating a sense of civic community; farming under President Roosevelt's government policies; serving in the military and being injured in Europe during World War Two; being disabled; family sayings; and sacred harp singing in northern Alabama. In addition, he also talks about hog killing, smoking meat, mule plowing and other routines on the farm. C83-105: Williams talks about making homemade brooms; giving homemade brooms and bonnets to the elderly; the proliferation of modern technology; physical and mental challenges involved in farming; attending church revivals and going fishing in the summertime; training mules; and serenadings, weddings, and cane grindings. In addition, he remarks upon black quartet singing, his marriage, his political career and political outlook, and his religious views, including his outlook on the bible, Israel, and his favorable regard for Jews.
- Collection
| a_s1576_10_c83-107 | Interview with Gene Rawls | Sound | Auctioneers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Auctioneering
Auctions
Selling
Oral performance
Agriculture
Livestock
Cattle | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Gene Rawls
- Date
- 1983-05-07
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Rawls, an auctioneer at a cattlemen's market in Lakeland and Tampa, talks about working in agriculture. He discusses attending auctioneering school in Iowa; learning agribusiness; having stage fright; working with and controlling crowds of people; how to begin an auction; controlling his voice; the longest sale (it started on a Thursday afternoon at 1:00 PM and ended that Wednesday at 7:00 AM); learning how to talk fast; the use of "hot shots," improvements in the quality of cattle in Florida; and methods in taking care of his voice including taking a lot of vitamin A, putting salt water in one's nose, and drinking Gatorade; and dealing with hecklers and crooks.
- Collection
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