| Asa May House in Capps, Florida | Asa May House in Capps, Florida | Still Image | Agriculture
Architecture
Houses
Buildings
Material culture
Settlement patterns
Farm buildings
Greek Revival (architecture)
Plantations
Plantation life
Plantation owner
Farmer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Asa May House in Capps, Florida
- Date
- 1981-01-15
- Description
- Three black and white prints. Asa May was a cotton planter and owner of Rosewood Plantation, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house dates from c. 1840, and was made of cypress and heart pine. Capps is located South of Monticello, Florida.
- Collection
| Farmer T.G. Mayo demonstrating sugarcane grinding to students | Farmer T.G. Mayo demonstrating sugarcane grinding to students | Still Image | Farmer
Students
Food preparation
Agriculture
Tools
Demonstrations
Farmers
Sugarcane grinding
Sugar
Sugarcane
Farming
Education
Sugar crops
Cash crops
Agricultural implements | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Fern Farm | Fern Farm | Still Image | Fieldwork
Farming
Ferns
Flora
Agriculture
Plants
Food habits
Mexican American cookery
Farmer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Fern Farm
- Date
- 1985-03-01
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Images of a typical fern farm owned by Bonnie Jones, located in an area known as the fern belt. The ferns are under plastic wrap to protect them from freezing. Many of the plants are brown from the recent January freeze. Ferns were often used by Mexican Americans as food additives, called herba. In winter 1985, the Bureau joined 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
| Gristmilling | Gristmilling | Still Image | Fieldwork
Gristmills
Material culture
Buildings
Structures
Farmer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Gristmilling
- Date
- 1983-06-29
- Description
- Eight color slides.
- 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_c83-102 | Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr. | Sound | Turpentiners
Farmer
Fieldwork
Interviews
Local history
Oral histories
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Turpentine industry and trade
Turpentining
Agriculture
Farm life
Family farming
Great Depression
Tractors
Mules | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr.
- Date
- 1983-04-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C83-102: Macmillan discussed how Two Egg, Florida, and Paramour, Florida, were named; his birth in Grand Ridge, Florida, in 1910; his and his father's work in turpentining; getting into the farming business after the turpentining industry's decline; farming with mules and, later, with tractors in the 1930s; raising peanuts, soy beans, and corn; his son's work in cattle farming; blacksmithing; canning and preserving food; and magic and omens in farming. He also tell stories about voting Republican due to promises of racial equality and talks about "Hoover Days" and the Depression; old farming sayings and practices; and making moonshine from cane skimmings. C83-103: McMullian discusses visiting the Florida Folk Festival; collecting antique engines as a hobby; the turpentining process; tally calls and tally boards; "raking" trees; enjoying his work in the turpentine industry; bank loans; and trains and business transportation. In addition, he tells a story about the first toilet he ever saw and talks about losing crops in droughts and from nematodes; his father's employment in a large farm; fiddle and piano music and dances; Sacred Harp music; African-Americans; square dancing and clogging; serenades, housewarmings, and quilting parties; and farming in cold weather.
- Collection
| James (Country Clyde) Guthrie | James (Country Clyde) Guthrie | Still Image | Farmer
Fieldwork
Farm life
Farmers
Farming
Vegetables
Crops
Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| James Ambrose plowing his field | James Ambrose plowing his field | Still Image | Farmer
Farm workers
Fieldwork
Draft animals
Working animals
Domestic animals
Mules
Plowing
Farming
Farm life
African Americans
Farmers
Plows | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Jennings Senior Center residents at North Hamilton County Elementary School | Jennings Senior Center residents at North Hamilton County Elementary School | Still Image | Farmer
Broom makers
Elementary schools
Education
Students
Children
Oral communication
Recreation
Demonstrations
Play
Hand-clapping games
Games
Elderly, the | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Jennings Senior Center residents at North Hamilton County Elementary School
- Date
- 1982-05-19
- Description
- Twelve color slides. Jacqueline Mathis's fourth grade class. Cromer discusses her upbringing, Maxwell demonstrating traditional domestic skills, and Murphy talking about farming. The Folk Arts in Schools Project in Columbia and Hamilton County was a joint venture between the county school systems and the Florida Folklife Program. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists.
- Collection
Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time Program