| a_s2043_00056 | Albert and Jessie DeVane interview | Sound | Interviews
Oral histories
Oral history
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Florida history
Seminole Indians
Authors
Historian | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Albert and Jessie DeVane interview
- Date
- 1958-07-24
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. The DeVanes were considered experts on Florida's Seminole Indians. They arranged many of the Seminole performers at the Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Bluegrass music and Cracker culture promoter Carl Allen receiving Florida Folk Heritage Award | Bluegrass music and Cracker culture promoter Carl Allen receiving Florida Folk Heritage Award | Still Image | Folklife
Bluegrass musicians
Old time music
Restaurants
Public officials
Special events
Awards
Historian
Restaurateurs
Authors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Bluegrass music and Cracker culture promoter Carl Allen receiving Florida Folk Heritage Award
- Date
- 1990-03-17
- Description
- One proof sheet with seven black and white images, plus negatives. Images of Carl Allen receiving the Folk Heritage Award, presented by the Florida Folklife Program. Born 13 February 1918, Allen was awarded for his efforts to preserve "Cracker" culture through his restaurant and his newspaper columns. He also promoted bluegrass music throughout Florida with his restaurant, Allen's Historical Cafe, which featured live bluegrass music. 1-4: Rep. Fred Lewis, Carl Allen, and K. Monahan; 5: Rep. Fred Jones, Carl Allen, and Troy Green; 6-7: Carl Allen.
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| Former principal and local historian Spencer Pompey discussing Black History month | Former principal and local historian Spencer Pompey discussing Black History month | Still Image | Historian
Fieldwork
Classrooms
Education
Teaching of folklore
Elementary schools
Schools
Students
Children
Florida history
Local history
Historians
African Americans
School principals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Former principal and local historian Spencer Pompey discussing Black History month
- Date
- 1988-02-11
- Description
- Eleven color slides. Pompey, a native FLoridian from Live Oak, was a local historian and retired school principal. He was also invovled in local politics. 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_t77-184 | Friday evening performances at the 1968 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2) | Sound | Guitarist
Singers
Dancers
Historian
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Guitar music
Country music
Clogging
Clog dancing
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday evening performances at the 1968 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
- Date
- 1968-05-03
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Straley was the 1968 Jeannie With Light Brown Hair beauty pageant winner. Jahoda was a writer-historian who just published The Other Florida. Thomas was from Delray Beach. Grant was from Holmes Beach. Lemon was a guitarist who played in the Chet Atkins-style from Conn.
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| Images of the Florida Folk Arts Conference | Images of the Florida Folk Arts Conference | Still Image | Special events
Academic disciplines
Folklife
Folklore
Meetings
Forums (Discussion and debate)
Historians
Teaching of folklore
Conferences and seminars series
Historian
Educators
Public officer
Arts administrators
Ethnomusicologists
Anthropologists
Authors
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of the Florida Folk Arts Conference
- Date
- 1978-01-14
- Description
- 57 black and white prints. Images are from a folklife conference held at White Springs January 14-15, 1978. Hosted by the Florida Folklife Program at the Stephen Foster Center (SFC), the conference included folklorists and historians from the Library of Congress (LOC), Smithsonian Institute (SI), University of Florida, as well as throughout Florida and the South. The archives also houses a video of the conference -- V-192. Images include Thelma Boltin (P78-193,194,196,197,199, 224); Tom Norman, director of the Division of Cultural Affairs (P78-181); Sally Yerkovich of the NEA, Georganne Fletcher, and Alan Jabbour, director of the American Folklife Center (P78-184); Charles Bron (P78-185); P178-186, 190, 232 Foxfire books author George Reynolds (P78-186, 190, 232); Yerkovich, Fletcher (P78-191); Fletcher, Jabour, Syd Blackman of Tifton, Georgia's Art Exposition (P78-192); Trustee Mrs. Sanders of the Stephen Foster Center (P78-195); Tim Lewis and Bob Williams (P78-198); ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen (P78-200, 226); Boltin and John Herrman (P78-201); Yerkovich and Blackman (P78-203); Ted Grame and Jabour (P78-204); Ralph Rinzler of the SI and Ralph Boggs (P78-206); Jaboru and Fletcher (P78-207); Blackman (P78-208, 233); Olsen (P78-209-210); Samuel Proctor, UF history professor, and Yerkovich (P78-201); Norman (P78-213); Boggs and Morris (P78-214); Boggs (P78-215-234); FFP director Peggy Bulger (P78-216, 233); Boggs and Morris (P78-217-218); Jabour (P78-219); Charles Hall of Agrirama (P78-220); Morris (P78-221); Dr. William Ferris of Yale's Center of Southern Folklife (P78-222); Fletcher (P78-225); Pat Waterman from the University of South Florida (P78-227); Seminole Indian oral historian R. Thomas King (P78-228); Yerkovich (P78-229); Proctor (P78-230); Rinzler (P78-231); and the White Springs Quilt made by Nancy Morgan (P78-235-237).
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| a_s1708_05_tape01 | Interview with DeSoto county historian Howard Melton | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Life histories
Sound recordings
Interviews
Family history
Florida history
Historians
Local history
Historian | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with DeSoto county historian Howard Melton
- Date
- 1987-01-19
- Description
- Six audio cassettes. Melton was a De Soto County historian, was a contact for several folk artists in De Soto County for folklorist Steve Frangos. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk arts project between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
- Collection
| a_s1708_04_tape31 | Interview with local historian George Lane | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Life histories
Sound recordings
Interviews
Florida history
Local history
Historian | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with local historian George Lane
- Date
- 1987-03-02
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. The Florida Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1987 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalis, Steve Frangos, Merri Belland, and Barbara Seitz as preliminary research for a joint folk arts project between the Florida Folklife Program and the Florida Museum of History. The field researchers focused on those areas previously overlooked by FFP staff. The research focused on identifying folk artists and locating appropriate exhibit objects.
- Collection
| a_s2043_00092 | Interview with Stephen Foster expert and curator Fletcher Hodges (1961) | Sound | Interviews
Oral histories
Oral history
Life histories
Personal experience narratives
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Historian
Curators | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Stephen Foster expert and curator Fletcher Hodges (1961)
- Date
- 1961-09-26
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Fletcher Hodges, Jr., who was the curator of Stephen Foster Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of a Foster biography. Hodges was a native of Indiana, where he was asked in 1932 to curate the Eli Lilly and Co.'s collection of Stephen Foster materials (20,000 items). He moved with the collection to the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. He also assisted in the creation of the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs. He retired in 1982. His wife Peggy was also a children's author and teller of folktales.
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| a_s1576_23_c87-003 | Interview with Ukrainian historians John Kohut and Professor Tahasky | Sound | Historian
Fieldwork
Interviews
Emigration and immigration
Ukraine
Ukraine History
Folklore and history
Arts, Ukrainian
Ukrainian Americans
Ukrainian American art | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Ukrainian historians John Kohut and Professor Tahasky
- Date
- 1985-03-18
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C87-3: John Kohut discusses the history of Ukraine and the division of modern Ukraine; differences between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches; Soviet effect on traditional cultures; Ukrainian immigration to the United States and Canada; Taras Shevchenko, national hero; Ukrainian traditions; his family history and their immigration to the U.S. in the 1800s; differences between Russians and Ukrainians; differences between American and Ukrainian eggs. Mr. Tahaksy joins Mr. Kohut for a discussion on religious history; Soviet deportation of priests and oppression of Catholics; hierarchy of Ukrainian Catholic Church; Ukrainian organizations and means of communication. C87-4: John Kohut discusses other Ukrainian organizations in North America; church hall as community meeting place; writings of Ukrainian dissidents; Ukrainian immigration to the U.S. in the 1920s; national hero Shevchenko writing songs that the church performs; national holidays and customs; location of Ukrainians throughout United States.
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| a_s1592_07_tape16 | Recording of the Maritime Project Meeting | Sound | Meetings
Forums (Discussion and debate)
Folklife
Teaching of folklore
Historians
Oral histories
Local history
Research methods
Fieldwork
Oral communication
Academic disciplines
Maritime folklore
Review of research
Historian
Public officer
Anthropologists
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of the Maritime Project Meeting
- Date
- 1987-03-03
- Description
- Four audio cassettes. Meeting between project participants and the project's advisory committee to review and revise the project's publication: Documenting Maritime Folklife: An Introductory Guide. In addition to a discussion of the Florida Maritime Project, the recordings provide insight into disciplinary debates over the validity of folklife. Includes discussion of amateur versus professional folklorists/researchers, the use of oral history, the project's aims and goals, the philosophy and politics behind folklife, and the conflicts between history, anthropology, and folklife. Participants include maritime historian, Fleetwood, historians Hickerson and Morris, archaeologist Miller, anthropologists Parades, Wickman, and Stewart, biologist Scott, folklorists Gilmore, Johnson, Taylor, Michael, and Loomis. An online copy of the publication can be found at: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/maritime/ Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on the Gulf and Atlantic fishing cultures, and utilizing photographs, slides, oral histories, and on-site interviews, the survey climaxed with a demonstration area at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. Also available on reel to reel (reels 6-7). The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project can be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
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