| a_s1576_40_tape11 | Billy Rolle interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral narratives
Jazz
Family history
Bahamian Americans
Jazz bands
Jazz musicians
Saxophones | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Billy Rolle interview for the Miami-Dade Folklife Survey
- Date
- 1985-12-10
- Description
- One audio cassette. Rolle, a jazz saxophonist, discusses his Bahamian parents, playing jazz, learning various instruments, segregation, South Florida nightclubs, and different styles of jazz.
- Collection
| a_s1576_06_c81-053 | Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview | Sound | Field recordings
Arts, Cuban
Cuban Americans
Emigration and immigration
Music business
Family history
Oral histories
Interviews
Latinos
Life histories | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview
- Date
- 1981-08-17
- Description
- Salazarte and Oliva talk about their family histories and how they came to immigrate to the U.S. and Miami; their experiences as musicians and Latin music promoters; Little Havana; and Latin American celebrations and customs. Oliva discusses his experience with his band, Los Sobrinos del Juez (The Judge’s Nephews), and his musical directorship of the Miami Sound Machine. Copied from T81-82 & T81-83.
- Collection
| a_s1595_02_tape01 | First Lottie Shore interview for the Seminole Exhibit at the Museum of Florida History | Sound | Seminole Indians
Field recordings
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Foodways
Storytelling
Family history
Indigenous peoples
Folk beliefs
Interviews | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_63_c96-049 | Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2) | Sound | Storytellers
Farmers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Oral narratives
Personal experience narratives
Life histories
Local history
Family farming
African Americans
Farm life
Arts, Haitian
Storytelling
Haitian Americans
Family history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 2)
- Date
- 1996-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Kerchmar served as emcee. Liliane Louis, Haitian storyteller, talks about the history of stories and tells: "The Smart-Ugly Student" and "The Charcoal Man". Sally Jones discusses her child hood in the White Springs area and talks about African-American culture, self-sufficiency and farming processes. Jones talk continues on C96-50.
- Collection
| a_s1714_04_tape57 | Happy Cole Driggers describing old photographs of 1920s shad fishing | Sound | Fieldwork
Photography
Fishing
Shad
Tourism
Fishers
Recreation
Family history
Oral narratives
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Happy Cole Driggers describing old photographs of 1920s shad fishing
- Date
- 1985-02-26
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with quilter Happy Driggers as she describes her family's old photographs of shad fishing in the 1920s. This tape may be listened while viewing slides S85-2522 - S85-2541, found in S 1577, v. 28. 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_38_tape16 | Harriett Mosley oral history for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival | Sound | Field recordings
Interviews
African Americans
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Community culture
Family history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/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_t79-023 | Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark | 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 |
Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark
- 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
| a_s1576_02_c78-048 | Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains | Sound | Interviews
Metalwork
Occupational groups
Occupational training
Blacksmithing
Metal craft
Family history
Life histories
Metal products
Slavery
African Americans
Labor
Labor unions
Fieldwork
Blacksmiths | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with blacksmith Thomas Rains
- Date
- 1978-04-17
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side 1, C78-48: Rains, born December 24, 1894, discusses wrought ironwork. He learned the trade from his father, a former slave from Americus, Georgia. Rains began the practice himself in 1912. He discusses his work on wagons, wheels, and tools and talks of how he does restoration work for historical societies. Side 2, C78-48: Rains discusses his philosophy on life, making decorative hinges and tie backs; making unusual items; making white oak baskets; work on the farm, etc. Side 1, C78-49: Discusses his family, his blacksmith shop and equipment, his church, his membership in the Farmers' Union, Elizabethan Missionary Baptist Church, exhibiting for fairs and events, shoeing horses, etc.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t82-033 | Interview with blues singer Mary McClain | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
African Americans
Music business
Blues (Music)
Performing arts
Singing
Religion
Christianity
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Traveling theater
Minstrel shows
Family history
Performers
Blues singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with blues singer Mary McClain
- Date
- 1982-08-05
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Known as Diamond Teeth Mary for the jewels she placed in her teeth in the 1940s, Mary was born in West Virginia, and always claimed to be the half sister of fellow blues singer Bessie Smith. In 1918, she moved to Florida's Gulf Coast. During her later years, she lived in Bradenton, Florida. Although McClain was a popular performer in the 1920s and 1930s, she stopped performing the blues for many years. She was rediscovered by the Florida Folklife Program in the 1980s. In 1986, she won the Florida Folk Heritage Award in 1986. She died on 4 April 2000. In the interview, she discusses the start of her career; blues music; various groups she performed with; performing with George Burns, Bessie Smith, and Sarah Vaughan; minstrel shows; her family history; her conversion to Christianity in 1962; and her work in churches. Copied on audiocassettes C83-24 and C83-25. Material used for the public radio program, Florida Home: I Started With the Blues. Copies of the programs can be found on C85-16.
- Collection
Listen: The Blues Program