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Interview with Maggie Melton

Date: 1978-05-09
Description: Two audio cassettes. C78-55: Margaret (Maggie) Melton discusses snake and alligator hunting, cooking, and skinning; making birdhouses from gourds; working with hides and bones; foods unique to the Plant City area; cooking hog organs and gophers; making turtle soup; cane grinding and syrup making; candy pulls; fishing nets made from burlap sacks; and teas used for home remedies. C78-56: Melton discusses making things from nature; fishing for and cooking scallops; gardening during a full moon; making jewelry from bones; preparing snake hides; and making belts.
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Interview with Maggie Melton

Interview with dog trainer Vernon Harris

Date: 1984-11-13
Description: One audio cassette. Harris discusses growing up in Baldwin, and the effects turpentining and railroads have had there; local culture; hunting; dog training; and glass work. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. 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, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
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Interview with dog trainer Vernon Harris

Interview with wood worker John Cross

Date: 1984-12-04
Description: One audio cassette. Cross, a former railroader and sea merchant, discusses Bryceville, Florida; his father, a machinist, millwright, and Baldwin Chief of Police; work as a cattle rancher; hog hunting; working for the railroads; carpentry; traditional woodworking tools: drawing knife, planes, shaving horse, spoke shave; whip maker, and Curly Dekle. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. 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. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
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Interview with wood worker John Cross

Interview with alligator hunter Bill Crowder

Date: 1983-02-18
Description: One audio cassette. Interview with alligator hunter Crowder, who was licensed with the state to capture and kill nuisance alligators, including within the Suwannee River. Interview conducted at the Stephen Foster Center.
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Interview with alligator hunter Bill Crowder

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Date: 1999-05-29
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Date: 1999-05-29
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Date: 2000-05-26
Description: One audio cassette tape. Stone served as emcee. Bobby Johns continues from C00-65 discussing Creek Indian woodcarving and Creek culture and names. Sammy Snell of Naples, FL, discusses hunting and swamp buggies.
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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Date: 2000-05-26
Description: One audio cassette tape. Stone served as emcee. Sammy Snell continues from C00-66 discussing swamp buggies. Mary Johns discusses Seminole patchwork, growing up in the swamps, dug-out canoes and herbal medicine.
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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton

Date: 1984-02-05
Description: One reel to reel. Albritton talks about growing up in Myakka, including hunting (alligators, frogs, and rabbits), ranching, going to school, moonshining, and fishing. The Myakka Community Profile Project was conducted between October 1983 and March 1984 through a partnership with the Crowley Museum and Nature Center, and the Florida Folklife Program, funded by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The fieldwork and resultant booklet/slideshow, created by museum employee Robert Cottrell and folklorist Pat Waterman, was to profile the lifestyles and values of the Myakka community, located in Southwest Florida in Manatee County. See S 1682 for more information on the project.
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Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton

Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons

Date: 1985-09-05
Description: Two reel to reels (copied onto audio cassette: C86-48 and C86-158.) Interview with Everglades native, hunter, and boat builder Simmons. He discusses hunting alligators; trapping otters and other animals; trading with Seminole Indians; life during the Depression; Everglades drainage; building skiffs; dug out canoes; and camping in the Everglades. The Metro-Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons

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a_s1576_02_c78-055	Interview with Maggie Melton	Sound	Artisans Interviews Fieldwork Snakes Belts (Clothing) Animals Alligators Leather goods Life histories Hunting Fauna Food preparation Jewelry making Turtles Domestic arts	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_22_c86-168b	Interview with dog trainer Vernon Harris	Sound	Fieldwork Interviews Oral histories Life histories Animals Working dogs Animal training Occupational groups Community culture Hunting Turpentining Timber Turpentine industry and trade Railroads Leisure Animal trainers Dog trainers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_23_c86-196	Interview with wood worker John Cross	Sound	Carpenters Fieldwork Sound recordings Interviews Life histories Oral histories Woodwork Railroads Maritime life Wood craft Hunting Woodworking tools Wood carving Whip making Family history Ranching Community culture	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_39_tape32	Interview with alligator hunter Bill Crowder	Sound	Hunters Fieldwork Interviews Occupational groups Occupational training Alligator hunting Alligators Hunting Hunting Equipment and supplies Hunting stories	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_78_d99-023	Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Animal calls Oral performance Animal sounds Birdsongs Hunting Whipcracking Dance music Clogging Stringband music Personal experience narratives Tales Oral histories Storytelling Singers Musicians Dancers Bands (Music) Fiddlers Storytellers Rodeo performers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_78_d99-025	Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Animal calls Demonstrations Birdsongs Dance Decoys (Hunting) Hunting Arts, Japanese Japanese Americans Arts, Asian Personal experience narratives Dancers Hunters Rodeo performers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_82_c00-066	Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Occupational groups Occupational folklore Woodwork Hunting Hunting Equipment and supplies Hunting stories Carvers (Decorative artists) Hunters Wood carvers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_82_c00-067	Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)	Sound	Carvers (Decorative artists) Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Seminole Indians Native Americans Patchwork Canoes Life histories Hunting Hunting Equipment and supplies Hunting stories Hunters	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t85-218	Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton	Sound	Farmers Beekeepers Fieldwork Interviews Personal experience narratives Oral histories Family history Alligators Distilling, Illicit Ranching Hunting Hunting Anecdotes Cookery (Alligator) Fences Education Local history	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t86-002	Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons	Sound	Boatbuilders Fieldwork Sound recordings Life histories Oral histories Oral narratives Boatbuilding Boats and boating Wetland animals Swamp animals Wetlands Swamps Nature Seminole Indians Native Americans Alligators Skiffs Canoes Hunting Animal traps Trapping	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Interview with Maggie Melton

Interview with Maggie Melton

Interview with dog trainer Vernon Harris

Interview with dog trainer Vernon Harris

Interview with wood worker John Cross

Interview with wood worker John Cross

Interview with alligator hunter Bill Crowder

Interview with alligator hunter Bill Crowder

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton

Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton

Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons

Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons

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Interview with Maggie Melton

Interview with Maggie Melton

Interview with dog trainer Vernon Harris

Interview with dog trainer Vernon Harris

Interview with wood worker John Cross

Interview with wood worker John Cross

Interview with alligator hunter Bill Crowder

Interview with alligator hunter Bill Crowder

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton

Interview with Myakka City resident Larry Albritton

Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons

Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons