Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song : Interview with John Anton (Video 17-18) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song : Interview with John Anton (Video 17-18) | Moving Image | Philosophers Fieldwork Interviews Universities and colleges Faculty Greek Americans Emigration and immigration College teachers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song : Interview with John Anton (Video 17-18)
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- 1987-11
- Description
- Two video cassettes. 20 minutes. (Copy can be found on FV-9, S 1615.) Interview with John Anton, philosophy professor at the University of South Florida on Greek traditions brought from the Greek Islands to the US. 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.
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Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Interview with Angelo Angelatos (Video 8) | Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Interview with Angelo Angelatos (Video 8) | Moving Image | Fieldwork Interviews Greek Americans Radio announcing Radio public speaking Radio stations Entertainment Radio broadcasters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song: Interview with Angelo Angelatos (Video 8)
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- 1987-11
- Description
- One video cassette. 20 minutes. (Copy can be found on FV-5, S 1615.) Interview with Angelo Agelatos at WLVU Greek radio, Tarpon-Clearwater; discusses the importance of Greek radio to the Greek-American community. 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.
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1986 Florida Folk Festival (1 of 17) | 1986 Florida Folk Festival (1 of 17) | Moving Image | Musicians Artisans Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Bagpipe music Tsabouna Arts, Greek Greek Americans Palm frond weaving Seminole Indians Native Americans Patchwork Dolls Sweetgrass baskets Basket making Bagpipers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
1986 Florida Folk Festival (1 of 17)
- Date
- 1986-05-24
- Description
- One video cassette (3/4" tape). 20 minutes. Nikitas and Toni Tsimouris: Nikitas performs on and Toni explains the tsabouna (Greek bagpipe); Seminole Family Camp - palm frond roofing, making ash, patchwork, dolls, sweetgrass basketry.
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1986 Florida Folk Festival (3 of 17) | 1986 Florida Folk Festival (3 of 17) | Moving Image | Musicians Singers Pianists Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Tsabouna African Americans Arts, Greek Greek Americans Bagpipe music Bagpipes Religious music Religious songs Piano music Gospel (Black) Gospel music Gospel songs Bagpipers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Annual Grecian Festival | Annual Grecian Festival | Still Image | Fieldwork Festivals Arts, Greek Greek Americans Performing arts Dance Body movement Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Annual Grecian Festival
- Date
- 1987-02-21
- Description
- Eigth color slides. Includes images of Kontodaskalakis dancing. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
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a_s1576_01_c77-002 | Annual Tarpon Springs International Glendi | Sound | Performers Bands (Music) Animal trainers Arts, Ukrainian Ukrainian Americans Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Interviews Gospel songs Local history Religious music Arts, Greek Greek Americans Czechoslovakian Americans Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Annual Tarpon Springs International Glendi
- Date
- 1976-10-23
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. A glendi is a Greek festival, which can take the form of a fair or festival. Recording of a glendi in Tarpon Spring, including church choirs, interviews with Czechoslovakian and Greek residents, Greek and Czechoslovakian singers, and an interview with the chairman of Tarpon Springs Chamber of Commerce. Side two is blank.
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Antonio Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making dive helmets | Antonio Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making dive helmets | Still Image | Apprentices Diving Equipment and supplies Greek Americans Helmets Metal craft Sponge fisheries Workplace Workshops Teaching of folklore Copper Metal products Artisans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Antonio Lerios and apprentice Nick Toth making dive helmets
- Date
- 1986-02-24
- Description
- Thirty-four color slides. Lerios began making diving helmets for sponge divers in 1913 in Tarpon Springs. When he was in his 80s, he decided to retire. In the meantime, Toth, fresh with a degree from University of Florida, decided to learn the trade, and he worked as an apprentice for Lerios. By 1992 when Lerios died, Toth had assumed control of the business. Diving helmets date back to the early 1900s. Once Greek divers began diving for sponges in Tarpon Springs in 1905, the diving helmet industry in Florida began. The helmets allow divers to walk into deep water to gather sponges. For more history of Lerios and Toth diving helmets, see: http://www.divinghelmets.com/pages/history.html The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
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Apopka Folk Festivals | Apopka Folk Festivals | Still Image | Folk festivals Festivals Special events Folklore revival festivals Dancers Greek Americans Children Performing arts Pine needle crafts | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Apopka Folk Festivals
- Date
- 1976-11
- Description
- Seventeen color slides. Slide S77-48 is missing.
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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.
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a_s1576_t87-126 | Bouzouki player Spiros Skordilis and his apprentice performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Apprentices Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Music performance Bouzouki Arts, Greek Greek Americans Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |