| a_s1576_14_c84-093 | 1984 Summer Folk Culture Seminar | Sound | Teacher
Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Teaching of folklore
Education
Teachers
Folklife
Jack tales
Marchen
Storytelling
Tales
Children
Family history
Writing
Naming practices
Jokes
Beliefs and cultures
Educators
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
1984 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
- Date
- 1984-07-23
- Description
- Nine audio cassettes. Liz Simmons, folklorist and teacher from California, leads discussion with teachers on folklore and the place of jokes, legends, and games in folklore. Topics include Zora Neale Hurston; African American folklore; writing folklore; memory and expressive writing; tooth fairy stories; reinforced roles and stereotypes; politics, race and gender in folklore; teaching folklore; children's games; naming traditions; children's folklore; Jack Tales; and family folklore and stories.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t79-005 | Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral history
Personal experience narratives
African Americans
Midwifery
Occupational groups
Occupational training
Health
Labor
Children
Natural medicine
Natural childbirth
Healers
Family history
Beliefs and cultures
Midwives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project
- Date
- 1979-06-06
- Description
- One reel to reel. Taylor discusses her life and career as a midwife. Topics include family history; training with a local doctor; childbirth; medicinal treatments; pre-natal care; her first delivery in 1953; complications in childbirth including tearing, placenta, twins, and breached births; birth-related superstitions; labor pains; and monetary charges. Bonnie Carden, another midwife, also joins in towards the end of the interview.
- Collection
| Blessing of the Water for the Dead | Blessing of the Water for the Dead | Still Image | Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
Priests
Religion
Religious rites
Beliefs and cultures
Death rites
Catholics
Folk festivals
Special events | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Blessing of the Water for the Dead
- Date
- 1989-06-24
- Description
- Twenty color slides. The festival was held June 24-25, 1989 to celebrate Tarpon Springs heritage of sponge diving, a practice that dated back to the 1890s. By 1905, when 500 Greek immigrants answered an ad to be sponge divers, the town acquired a distinctive Greek flavor, as the Greek Americans thrived in the sponge industry. At one point, Florida provided 95% of the nation's sponges. Although today over fishing and synthetic materials have undercut the sponge diving industry, the tradition lives on in Greek families, and through tourism.
- Collection
| Botanica Santeria storefront | Botanica Santeria storefront | Still Image | Material culture
Stores, retail
Religion
Mysticism
Specialty stores
Belief systems
Beliefs and cultures
Santeria | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Botanica Santeria storefront
- Date
- Description
- One black and white print. Image of the Santeria Botanica storefront. This was a place where believers in Santeria can buy herbs and other supplies. Santeria is a Cuban version of the Yoruba religion. 1979. See also S 1577, box 17, folder 28 (P79-807, P79-808).
- Collection
| Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Father Tryfon Theophilopolus (Videos 5-6) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Father Tryfon Theophilopolus (Videos 5-6) | Moving Image | Preachers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Greek Americans
Catholics
Religion
Beliefs and cultures
Christianity
Priests | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Father Tryfon Theophilopolus (Videos 5-6)
- Date
- 1987-11
- Description
- Two video cassettes. 20 minutes each. (Copy of both can be found on FV-4, S 1615.) Interview with Father Theophilopolus in St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church on Greek Orthodox religious traditions and their meanings. Created for the Every Island Has Its Own Song project. The finished product was a documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family, and the Tarpon Springs Greek community he lived in. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael researched, wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t79-023 | First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
African Americans
Life histories
Oral history
Personal experience narratives
White oak
Basket making
Basket work
Basketry
Baskets
Family history
Marriage
Trickster tales
Animal tales
Childbirth
Children
Supernatural legends
Beliefs and cultures
Domestic arts
Midwives
Healers
Basket maker
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project
- Date
- 1979-10-31
- Description
- Six reel to reels. Lucreaty Clark was a white oak basket maker, a tradition that stretched back in her family to antebellum times. In 1979, no one else was making split white oak baskets, and she presumed the tradition would die with her. (In the mid-1980s, she trained her grandson Alphonso Jennings to make white oak baskets.) T79-23: Topics included plantation work, cooking, her first marriage, her children, Brer Rabbit tales, games, and smoking beef. T79-25: Clark discusses how she chooses the white oak to make her baskets, how she splits the wood, her tools, selling the baskets, sues of the baskets, and how her parents taught her the skill. T79-26: Clark talks about raising hogs, Christmas baskets, and various basket types. T79-27: Clark talks about giving birth, weather predictions, raising her kids, snakes in the area, and her grandchildren. T79-28: Recording of Clark making a basket while she narrates throughout the process. Afterwards, she talks about -- and tells -- stories from her childhood, including ghost stories, Brer rabbit tales, and Little Red Riding Hood. T79-29: She discusses marriage and kids, midwives, losing her last child during childbirth, morning sickness, medicinal cures for childbirth pains, birthmarks, pregnancy superstitions, and how to finish a basket.
- Collection
| Florida Yesterday: Superstitutions (raw footage) | Florida Yesterday: Superstitutions (raw footage) | Moving Image | Television
Storytelling
Beliefs and cultures
Ghosts
Supernatural legends
Personal experience narratives
Oral performance
Family history
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Superstitutions (raw footage)
- Date
- 1977
- Description
- One video cassette. (1/2" tape; 62 minutes) Filmed in Smith's home office as he tells various ghost stories and explains local superstitions. Includes many takes, cut-aways, and B-roll. First half of the completed episode can be found on V86-30; the second half can be found on FV-24.
- Collection
| Folk medicine demonstration at Jasper elementary | Folk medicine demonstration at Jasper elementary | Still Image | Students
Demonstrations
Beliefs and cultures
Belief systems
Education
Schools
Practices
Medicine
Natural medicine
Alternative medicine
Health
Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_t87-068 | Friday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 8) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Workshops (Adult education)
Maritime life
Seafood industry
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Storytelling
Belief systems
Oral narratives
Beliefs and cultures
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 8)
- Date
- 1987-05-22
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Traditional Beliefs in Fishing Industry workshop: Commerical fishers (Fulsom from Apalachicola, and Smith from Port St. Joe) discussed superstitutions, beliefs, and ideas of good and bad luck int he fishing industry. The folklife area in 1987 focused on Maritime folklife, which stemmed from Taylor's work on the 1986 Maritime Heritage Project, and cooperative project between the FFP and the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| a_s1576_63_c96-055 | Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 8) | Sound | Archaeologists
Dancers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Nicaraguan Americans
Latinos
Music Latin America
Archaeology
Florida history
Occupational groups
Dance
Beliefs and cultures
Occupational folklore
Arts, Nicaraguan
Anthropologists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
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