| a_s1576_t89-058 | Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area | Sound | Merchants
Festivals
Folk festivals
Florida Folk Festival
Logging (forestry)
Occupational folklore
Interviews | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area
- Date
- 1989-05-26
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Patricia Sawin serves as emcee. A discussion that arose out of the Florida Forest Industries Project. The Baxleys discuss their logging business, including contracts, the process of logging, their workers, working with Georgia Pacific, and duties of their workers.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t89-070a | Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area | Sound | Merchants
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Business
Logging
Forests and forestry
Trees
Labor
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Interviews
Workshops (Adult education)
Loggers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Family forestry businesses workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area
- Date
- 1989-05-27
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Patricia Sawin served as emcee. A discussion that arose out of the Florida Forest Industries Project. The Baxleys discuss their logging business, including contracts, the process of logging, their workers, working with Georgia Pacific, and duties of their workers.
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape54 | Interview with bluegrass music and Cracker culture promoter Carl Allen | Sound | Restaurateurs
Fieldwork
Food
Food industry and trade
Food preparation
Cowboys
Restaurants
Merchants
Life histories
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral history
Citrus industry
Cooking and dining
Desserts
Journalists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with bluegrass music and Cracker culture promoter Carl Allen
- Date
- 1993-11-30
- Description
- Two audio tapes. Recorded in Allen's home. 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. In 1990, he won the Florida Folk Heritage Award. In the interview, he discusses his life history, and focused upon his mother's 'Cracker' cooking, including various recipes. He also discusses his time as a cowboy, citrus farming, and a hobo. He also describes what constitutes a Florida Cracker. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 10.
- Collection
| a_s1592_08_reel01 | Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins | Sound | Fieldwork
Seafood industry
Fisheries processing
Fishery processing plants
Selling seafood
Oyster fisheries
Oyster industries
Oyster shucking
Oysters
Fishing
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Oral narratives
Oyster tongs
Fishers
Merchants
Dealers (retail trade) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins
- Date
- 1986-10-16
- Description
- Two reel to reels (also copied onto audio cassette). Interview with fish house owner Grady Leavins. He discusses his early life in Pensacola; learning the oyster fishing trade; local oystermen; opening his own seafood business; the oystering process; boats; the seafood industry; harvesting clams; Florida Seafood Festival; and ecological changes to Bay. Also available on reel to reels (reels 6-7). 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.
- Collection
| a_s1592_06_tape01 | Interview with restauranteur Joan Bouington | Sound | Fieldwork
Seafood industry
Restaurants
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Oral narratives
Cooking and dining
Seafood
Food industry and trade
Food preparation
Food habits
Cookery (Mullet)
Cookery (Seafood)
Menus
Cookery (Alligator)
Restaurateurs
Merchants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with restauranteur Joan Bouington
- Date
- 1986-10-15
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with seafood restaurant owner Joan Bouington. Originally from New York, her family moved to Florida when she was ten. She discusses running a restaurant (her parents ran one, The Hut, since 1943); recipes; seafood cooking; mullet; oysters; shrimp; scallops; food; local history; and local fishers. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1592_06_tape06 | Interview with seafood dealer George Kirvin | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Fishing
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Shrimpers (persons)
Stores, retail
Boats and boating
Mullet fisheries
Local history
Family history
Mullet fishing
Oyster tongs
Oyster shucking
Weather
Merchants
Dealers (Retail trade) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with seafood dealer George Kirvin
- Date
- 1986-10-09
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with well-known seafood dealer Kirvin. In 1965, he won a Governor's Award for contribution to Florida seafood. He discusses his start as a fisher and a boat captain; Apalachicola Bay; his start in dealing seafood in 1960s; local contributions and activities; Governor's Award; rifts between commerical and sports fishing; politics; family history; learning fishing; local history; fishing; seining; mullet fishing; locating fish; oystering; and hurricanes. 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.
- Collection
| a_s1624_03_tape04 | Olivere Whitton interview for the Lakefront Legacy Festival Folklife Project | Sound | Restaurateurs
Fieldwork
Cookery, Jamaican
Jamaican Americans
Cooking and dining
Cooks
Occupational groups
Emigration and immigration
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Sound recordings
Restaurants
Community enterprise
Cookery, Haitian
Drink
Menus
Dinners and dining
Merchants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Olivere Whitton interview for the Lakefront Legacy Festival Folklife Project
- Date
- 1992-03-06
- Description
- One audio cassette. Held at Whitton's Islander Restaurant, he discusses Jamaica; immigrating to the US; the restaurant business; Jamaican foods and supplies (and how hard they are to get in Florida); the menu; Haitian cooking; Jamaican drinks; Latin American foods; buying foods from farmers; and other foods prepared there. In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
- Collection
| a_s1618_04_tape20 | Prema Kumar interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Merchants
Field recordings
Folk art
Decorative arts
Crafts
Indian Americans
Rice
Belief systems
Grocery stores
Interviews
Oral narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Prema Kumar interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-08-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Prema grew up in Madras, India and moved to the US in 1975. She and her husband run an Asian grocery store. Kumar discusses growing up in India; life in the USA; running an Asian grocery store; Kolam: designs, origins, process, and uses of; Shankaranth (sun worship); other Indian arts; needlework; fabric painting; traditions at the Jacksonville Indian Community; Hinduism; and Indian diversity. Kolam is a traditional Indian art form. It consists of patterns and design created on a flat surface using rice and rice flour trickled with fingers. This was traditionally performed each morning by Indian women outside their home, partly as decoration, partly for use as a bird feeder.
- Collection
| a_s1685_05_tape09 | Rick Herpel interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Merchants
Executives
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Business
Family history
Community enterprise
Stone structures
Stone, cast
Mason | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Rick Herpel interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1987-07-30
- Description
- One audio cassette. Herpel, owner of Herpel Cast Floor Tile and Stone Company, discusses his family history in Connecticut; the founding of the business in 1948 by his father, Henry; types of rock used; making stone tiles, grave markers, houses, and other masonry projects; moving to Florida to cash in on development; types of tiles; casting stone and tiles; his workers; his employment career; and learning the trade.
- Collection
| Bill Rodgers' circus and costume store | Bill Rodgers' circus and costume store | Still Image | Specialty stores
Selling
Stores, retail
Circus
Costumes
Clothing
Merchants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Listen: The Latin Program
