| a_s1576_t81-100 | Interview with Stetson Kennedy | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Folklore
New Deal, 1933-1939
United States. Work Projects Administration
Painters
Artists
Publishers and publishing
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Collecting
Labor unions
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Authors
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Stetson Kennedy
- Date
- 1981-09-22
- Description
- Three reel to reel recordings. In the interview, Kennedy discusses Stanley Papio; the WPA and the Federal Writers Project; working with anthropologist/writer Zora Neale Hurston; Carita Doggett Corse; collecting folklife during the 1930s; painter Mario Sanchez; his many books; infiltrating the KKK; work with labor unions; and the reprinting of the Folk Songs of Florida by Alton Morris, and Kennedy's Palmetto Country. Stetson Kennedy was one of the earliest folklorists working in Florida. Born in 1916, the Jacksonville native began collecting Northeast Florida folk sayings as a teenager. After a stint at the University of Florida, Kennedy joined the Florida WPA Writers Project in 1937 to administer the folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies section. Among the workers he supervised was novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Soon thereafter he published Palmetto Country, an exploration of Florida folklife edited by Erskine Caldwell. His papers from the WPA are housed within the Florida Folklife Collection. Although he remained a lifelong folklife supporter, in the 1940s and 1950s, Kennedy also worked to end Jim Crow laws and helped exposed the Ku Klux Klan with several publications. The recipient of many awards, including the Florida Folk Heritage Award and the NAACP Freedom Award, he was also the subject of Library of Congress' folklorist Peggy Bulger's dissertation. Among his books are Southern Exposure, The Klan Unmasked, and South Florida Folklife, co-authored with Bulger and Tina Bucuvalas. Bulger wrote her dissertation on Kennedy. Copied onto C81-71, C81-72 & C81-73.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-024 | Saturday performances at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) (Reel 6) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Awards
African Americans
Seminole Indians
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Rites and ceremonies
Musicians
Storytellers
Basket maker
Artists
Painters
Bagpipers
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Saturday performances at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) (Reel 6)
- Date
- 1985-05-25
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Presentation of the Florida Folk Heritage Awards. This was the first year that Florida Folk Heritage Award was presented. Winners were Susie Billie, Thelma Boltin, Lucreaty Clark, Lillian Saunders, and E.A. Frog Smith. Loomis, Carswell, and Waterman presented the awards. Bagpiper Hamilton played before the ceremony. There was also a second ceremony held in Tallahassee (see S1664, box 1, folder 5 for images of that Tallahassee ceremony.)
- Collection
| a_s1576_t85-144 | Interview with wood carver Jose Orta | Sound | Wood carvers
Carvers (Decorative artists)
Fieldwork
Sound recordings
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral narratives
Wood carving
Puerto Ricans
Latinos
Artists
Woodwork
Art | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with wood carver Jose Orta
- Date
- 1985-07-28
- Description
- One reel to reel. In Spanish with Orta's mother- in-law Reynardo Fernandez translating. The field notes indicate her translations were not always accurate. Orta discusses his carvings; wood used; techniques; making musical instruments; how he learned carving; and his family's involvement. The 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
| a_s1680_02_tape06 | Interview with ketubah maker Uriel Goldsmith | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Judaism
Religious rites
Religious art
Marriage contracts
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Jewish art and symbolism
Decorative arts
Ketubah
Life histories
Oral histories
Oral communication
Sound recordings
Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with ketubah maker Uriel Goldsmith
- Date
- 1989-03-24
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Goldsmith speaking about Ketubah making in his studio. He also talks about growing up in New York, Jewish caligraphy, history Jewish marriage contracts, Jewish art and symbolism, meaning of colors, and materials used in his art. Jewish marriage contract art is known as Ketubah (Katubut/Katabbah/Katubah). Jewish law requires men to give women a marriage contract on their wedding day. A katubah, usually written in Yiddish, guarantees her financial rights upon his death. The contracts are designed with art and motifs of the local Jewish community. For images of Goldsmith and his ketubah, see S 1680, box 1, folder 2.
- Collection
| a_s2034_04_cd03-102 | Saturday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 4) | Sound | Artists
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Demonstrations
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Weddings
Ketubah
Legal contract
Marriage contracts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 4)
- Date
- 2003-05-24
- Description
- One compact disc. Bucuvalis served as emcee. Jewish marriage contract art is also known as Katubut/Katabbah/Katubah. Jewish law requires men to give women a marriage contract on their wedding day. A ketubah, usually written in Yiddish, guarantees her financial rights upon his death. The contracts are designed with art and motifs of the local Jewish community.
- Collection
| a_s2034_04_cd03-110 | Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 2) | Sound | Artists
Storytellers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Ketubah
Arts, Jewish
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Weddings
Legal contract
Marriage contracts
Jewish Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 2)
- Date
- 2003-05-25
- Description
- One compact disc. Bucuvalis served as emcee. Jewish marriage contract art is also known as katubut/katabbah/katubah. Jewish law requires men to give women a marriage contract on their wedding day. A ketubah, usually written in Yiddish, guarantees the wife financial rights upon her husband's death. The contracts are designed with art and motifs of the local Jewish community.
- Collection
| 1986 Florida Folk Festival (17 of 17) | 1986 Florida Folk Festival (17 of 17) | Moving Image | Artists
Boatbuilders
Musicians
Musical groups
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Wood carvers
Painting
Painters
Arts, Haitian
Haitian Americans
Cigar making
Pinatas
Boatbuilding
Carvers (Decorative artists)
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1986 Florida Folk Festival (17 of 17)
- Date
- 1986-05-24
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 20 minutes. Lee Ellen Friedland, Limone Joseph and Po Lambi, Grupo Canaveral; Metro Dade Crafts Area: piñatas, Rafael Ozambela (Cuban cigars), The Scull Sisters (painting), Jose Ortí (woodcarving), Glen Simmons (boat making).
- Collection
| Artist E. A. (Frog) Smith | Artist E. A. (Frog) Smith | Still Image | Elderly, the
Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Artist E. A. (Frog) Smith
- Date
- Description
- One black and white slide. Copy of a black and white photograph of Frog Smith at White Springs. Undated.
- Collection
| Artist E. A. (Frog) Smith at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Artist E. A. (Frog) Smith at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Artists
Folk festivals
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Storytelling
Florida history
Public speaking
Elderly, the
Local history
Oral performance
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Artist Guy Le Bree | Artist Guy Le Bree | Still Image | Fieldwork
Portraits
Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
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