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Diamond Tooth Mary McClain: Roll Back the Years

Date: 1990
Description: One video recording (VHS; 21 minutes) Documentary on blues singer McClain. Includes interviews with Pete Gallagher and pianist Willie James. 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.
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Diamond Tooth Mary McClain: Roll Back the Years

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.
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Albert and Jessie DeVane interview

Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project

Date: 1987-11-23
Description: One audiocassette. Curry was a farmer since the 1940s. He discusses getting started in farming: clearing fields; developing his process, and deciding on crops. He also discusses his crops: watermelons, cucumbers, tomatoes; special needs for each; changes to the environment; main issue: water control; debt; financing; small farmers; plastic farming; and cattle raising (his other business).
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Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project

Anne Pesonen interview

Date: 1981-09-02
Description: Three audio cassettes. Pesonen, who moved to the United States in 1971, talks about her life in Finland and the United States. Copied onto T81-90, T81-91 & T81-92.
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Anne Pesonen interview

Annie Coleman interview

Date: 1977-01-14
Description: One audio cassette. The interview is difficult to hear. Coleman discusses her life and quilting.
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Annie Coleman interview

Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Date: 1991-06-21
Description: Two DAT tapes. This was the third visit by folklorist Stone; recorded at Groth's residence. Consists of a rehearsal (tape 14) and an interview with Groth (tape 14 and 15). 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 2004.
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Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Billy Burbank interview

Date: 1980-07-11
Description: One reel-to-reel tape. Burbank discusses the history and practices of the net making trade. The interview begins with Burbank describing how his grandfather began the family business, Burbank Trawlmakers Inc., in 1915. Since then, Burbank nets had been used by people in the US from North Carolina down to Florida and up the Gulf Coast through the Texas Panhandle area. In addition, their nets were exported to Central and South America as well as Africa. At the time of the interview, Burbank Trawlmakers was the largest producer of fishing nets in the United States. Stories about the family business include nets made for President Nixon and a fishing boat that accidentally caught a submarine in its trawl nets. In addition, Burbank also describes the different net types and uses – including flat nets, four seam balloon nets, two seam balloon nets, and a modification that Burbank developed called the Mongoose, which is actually two nets in one. He also describes the net making process, and the various tools and skills involved.
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Billy Burbank interview

Bluegrass performance by several sugar cane cookers

Date: 1987-03-17
Description: One audio cassette. 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 art 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.
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Bluegrass performance by several sugar cane cookers

Buddy Maddox program

Date: 1984-03-31
Description: Two audio cassettes. Public program for NEH Library Grant: Turpentining, Blacksmithing, Castnet Making Buddy Maddox talks of growing up in the turpentining business with his father; his schooling; his marriage; working the ferry with his father; turpentine forests; blacksmithing career; cast net making; fishing.
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Buddy Maddox program

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 Judgeâ€™s Nephews), and his musical directorship of the Miami Sound Machine. Copied from T81-82 & T81-83.
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Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview

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Diamond Tooth Mary McClain: Roll Back the Years	Diamond Tooth Mary McClain: Roll Back the Years	Moving Image	Pianists Musicians Documentary videos Blues (Music) Rhythm and blues music African Americans Music performance Singing Interviewing on television Interviews Life histories Blues singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
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
a_s1622_04_tape11	Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project	Sound	Field recordings Interviews Oral narratives Life histories Occupational folklore Agricultural implements Family farms Farm life Farming Sales Watermelons Vegetables Plants	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_06_c81-061	Anne Pesonen interview	Sound	Field recordings Interviews Oral histories Life histories Personal experience narratives Finnish Americans Emigration and immigration	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-005b	Annie Coleman interview	Sound	Interviews Oral narratives Quilting Life histories	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1640_22_tape14	Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger	Sound	Fieldwork Apprentices Zither Autoharp String instruments Musical instruments German Americans Women apprentices Music rehearsals Old time music Country music Interviews Life histories Personal experience narratives Harpists Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t80-082	Billy Burbank interview	Sound	Field recordings Interviews Oral histories Personal experience narratives Life histories Netmaking Seafood industry Weaving	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1708_05_tape09	Bluegrass performance by several sugar cane cookers	Sound	Musical groups Fieldwork Oral histories Life histories Sound recordings Interviews Cookery (Sugar) Sugarcane Bluegrass music Music performance Performing arts Bluegrass musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_14_c84-090	Buddy Maddox program	Sound	Blacksmiths Turpentiners Net maker Libraries Life histories Oral histories Occupational folklore Occupational groups Turpentine industry workers Turpentining Blacksmithing Net makers Fishing nets Maritime life Florida history Fishers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
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

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Diamond Tooth Mary McClain: Roll Back the Years

Diamond Tooth Mary McClain: Roll Back the Years

Albert and Jessie DeVane interview

Albert and Jessie DeVane interview

Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project

Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project

Anne Pesonen interview

Anne Pesonen interview

Annie Coleman interview

Annie Coleman interview

Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Billy Burbank interview

Billy Burbank interview

Bluegrass performance by several sugar cane cookers

Bluegrass performance by several sugar cane cookers

Buddy Maddox program

Buddy Maddox program

Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview

Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview

State Archives of Florida

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Diamond Tooth Mary McClain: Roll Back the Years

Diamond Tooth Mary McClain: Roll Back the Years

Albert and Jessie DeVane interview

Albert and Jessie DeVane interview

Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project

Alonzo Curry interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project

Anne Pesonen interview

Anne Pesonen interview

Annie Coleman interview

Annie Coleman interview

Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Billy Burbank interview

Billy Burbank interview

Bluegrass performance by several sugar cane cookers

Bluegrass performance by several sugar cane cookers

Buddy Maddox program

Buddy Maddox program

Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview

Carlos Salazarte and Carlos Oliva interview