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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-26
Description: One reel to reel recording. Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Date: 1989-05-27
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Patricia Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-28
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore. They also disucss hunting, and alligator hunting, as well as insects and pests encountered.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Artificial worms

Date: 1980
Description: One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. Woody Woodward and Al Jones with plastic worms Woodward made as fishing lures. Woodward, with Al Jones, made artificial fishing worms out of plastic for sale in Happy's Bait and Tackle Shop in Inverness. Begun in the 1960s, the idea came to Woody and Al when they noticed that fish only struck worms that floated at the surface by their tails. Therefore, they made a lure to imitate that behavior.
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Artificial worms

Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival

Date: 1982-05
Description: One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images, plus negatives. Demonstrations at the Florida Folk Festival, culled from fieldwork performed by the Big Bend Folklife Survey. 1-4: Woody Woodward 5, 11: Boatdriver Wilbert Gavin of Wakulla Springs; 6, 12-13: Pysanka eggs; 7-9; 14-24: Isabel Skrceny and her Czechoslovakian needlework; 25-26, 32-36: Eric Youvanski; 29-31: Visitors at the Woody Woodward booth; 28: Czechoslovakian needlework.
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Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival

Images of the Big Bend Folklife Survey

Date: 1980
Description: One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images, plus negatives. 1-22: Woody Woodward making his artificial worm fishing lures; 23-32: Czechoslovakian needlework; 33-36: fishing lures made by Woody Woodward. Woodward, with Al Jones, made artificial fishing worms out of plastic for sale in Happy's Bait and Tackle Shop in Inverness. Begun in the 1960s, the idea came to Woody and Al when they noticed that fish only struck worms that floated at the surface by their tails. Therefore, the made a lure to imitate that behavior.
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Images of the Big Bend Folklife Survey

Woody Woodward making artifical worms for fishing

Date: 1980
Description: Twenty-two color slides. Woody's Worms were sold at Happy's Bait and Tackle Shop (pictured in slide S82-1710). The images show Woodward making plastic worms in his workshop.
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Woody Woodward making artifical worms for fishing

Woody Woodward making artificial worm fishing lures

Date: 1980-10
Description: One black and white print. Woodward, with Al Jones, made artificial fishing worms out of plastic for sale in Happy's Bait and Tackle Shop in Inverness. Begun in the 1960s, the idea came to Woody and Al when they noticed that fish only struck worms that floated at the surface by their tails. Therefore, they made a lure to imitate that behavior.
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Woody Woodward making artificial worm fishing lures

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a_s1576_t89-071	Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Fishing Fishing baits Baitworms Earthworms Turtles Gopher tortoise Workshops (Adult education) Fishers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-082	Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Fishers Hunters Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Fishing Fishing baits Baitworms Earthworms Turtles Gopher tortoise Workshops (Adult education)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Artificial worms	Artificial worms	Still Image	Material culture Fishing lures Fishing Equipment and supplies Worms Baitworms Fishing baits Artisans	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival	Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival	Still Image	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Fishing lures Needlework Fishing tackle Baitworms Textile arts Demonstrations Woven goods African Americans Boat driving Oral histories Oral narratives Artisans Boat driver Needleworkers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Images of the Big Bend Folklife Survey	Images of the Big Bend Folklife Survey	Still Image	Fishing baits Fishing lures Baitworms Worms Material culture Fishing tackle Needlework Textile arts Embroidery Fishing Equipment and supplies Textiles Artisans	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Woody Woodward making artifical worms for fishing	Woody Woodward making artifical worms for fishing	Still Image	Fieldwork Specialty stores Stores, retail Fishing Fishing lures Baitworms Fishing tackle Workplace Fishing Equipment and supplies Workshops Woodworkers Carpenters Fishers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Woody Woodward making artificial worm fishing lures	Woody Woodward making artificial worm fishing lures	Still Image	Material culture Fishing lures Baitworms Fishing baits Fishing tackle Craft Artisans	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg

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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Artificial worms

Artificial worms

Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival

Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival

Images of the Big Bend Folklife Survey

Images of the Big Bend Folklife Survey

Woody Woodward making artifical worms for fishing

Woody Woodward making artifical worms for fishing

Woody Woodward making artificial worm fishing lures

Woody Woodward making artificial worm fishing lures

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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Artificial worms

Artificial worms

Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival

Demonstrations of Big Bend Folklife at the Florida Folk Festival

Images of the Big Bend Folklife Survey

Images of the Big Bend Folklife Survey

Woody Woodward making artifical worms for fishing

Woody Woodward making artifical worms for fishing

Woody Woodward making artificial worm fishing lures

Woody Woodward making artificial worm fishing lures