| a_s1576_01_c77-025 | Ada Mickler, Jean, and Libby Waldron interview | Sound | Interviews
Crafts industry
Minorcans
Fishing nets
Netmaking
Hat making
Local history
Palmetto
Weaving
Florida history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Ada Mickler, Jean, and Libby Waldron interview
- Date
- 1977-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette. Difficult to hear. On side one, interview of Ada Mickler of St. Augustine, Florida, in the laundromat where she works. Mickler talks about cast nets, palmetto hats, Spanish drawnwork. Followed by interview of Jean Waldron (with her sister Libby) on palmetto and palm fans, quilts and White Springs history. Tape recorder malfunctions at the end of side one. Interview continues on side two.
- Collection
| a_s1576_11_c84-001 | Capella Davison Minorcan Choir Tour on Bus to Gainesville | Sound | Musicians
Singers
Fieldwork
Minorcan Americans
Interviews
Music performance
Performing arts
Minorcans
Tours
Transportation
Singing
Spanish language | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Capella Davison Minorcan Choir Tour on Bus to Gainesville
- Date
- 1982-10-10
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side A Mostly Spanish discussion of Minorcan foods (pigs, blood sausage, fish, milk and cheese), special songs for hog killing and other songs Side B Songs in Spanish: Old Black Joe Hallelujah
- Collection
| a_s1576_15_c84-118 | Interview with Donnie Gader | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Minorcan Americans
Minorcans
Family history
Songs
Healers
Holidays
Christmas
Gristmills
Cooking and dining
Singing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Donnie Gader
- Date
- 1984-10-24
- Description
- Four audio cassettes. C84-118: Audio is quiet on interviewer at the start. Donnie Gader recollects songs from her childhood and how she learned them, including: "Rosewood Casket"; "Lilac Trees"; "I'm a Little Curly Head" (rhyme); lullabyes; "The Shoemakers"; "Good Morning, Merry Sunshine"; songs about Jessie James; "Pollywollydoodle"; "Southern Lullabye"; discusses racial words in songs; songs learned from black community: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"; hymns: "Amazing Grace"; "Rock of Ages"; song about a circus bear; learning songs from school teachers; "The Raggedy Man" (poem); and others. C84-119: Donnie Gader talks about home butchering; home remedies such as cornmeal gruel, pot liquor, fevergrass, Jerusalem oat root, dog fennels, and others; the local doctor; planting by the signs; farm living and crafts; games; talks about her journal; Christmas songs such as "Up on the Housetop"; "Jolly Old St. Nicholas"; Christmas tree traditions; making kites with flour and water for glue; her father and working with him at the gristmill; changes in fashion when she was young; life during the Great Depression and afterwards; various jobs she held in a sewing factory and packaging/locker plant. C84-120: Donnie Gader begins by discussing her family history; talks about the cotton gin, gristmill, and shingle mill her family ran; milking cows and making butter; butchering and the community aspect of it; peanut boiling and the community aspect of it; learning music by ear; discusses her second husband's French/Minorcan heritage; datil peppers. C84-121: Donnie Gader discusses and sings songs such as "Frankie and Johnnie"; "After the Ball"; "Down at the Old Garden Gate"; "The Old Rusty Mill" [?]; singing in the cottonfields; racism in cotton picking; song about a bole weevil; talks about her father and family history [sounds as if she reads from her journal at times]; father's talents as a musician; sings songs he sang: "Love Lifted Me"; "What A Friend We Have in Jesus"; community "sings"; foods.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-225 | WPA field recordings at Jacksonville, Tarpon Springs, St. Augustine, and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris) | Sound | Fieldwork
New Deal, 1933-1939
Interviews
Public service employment
Folklorists
Public welfare
United States. Work Projects Administration
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
A capella singers
Performing arts
A capella singing
Music performance
Singing
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian Americans
Songs, Greek
Songs, Slavic
Minorcans
Minorcan Americans
Love songs
Christmas music
Carols
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
WPA field recordings at Jacksonville, Tarpon Springs, St. Augustine, and Slavia (1939-1940 recording expedition: Alton Morris)
- Date
- 1939-08-26
- Description
- One reel to reel. These recordings were created by Morris of the University of Florida, assisted by workers of the Florida Writers Project (including photographer Robert Cook), in 1939 and 1940. He created 14 12-inch acetate records in total. On this recording, Morris recorded Greek singers in Tarpon Springs and Jacksonville, Minorcans in St. Augustine, and unidentified singers from the Czechoslovakian community of Slavia, founded in 1911. For more detailed information on the recordings, see S 1579, box 3, for copies of the original LOC indexes. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) – after 1939, the Works Projects Administration – was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the Roosevelt Administration that employed over 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included the Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, but later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for preservation of folk traditions for future use. In Florida, the FWP was based out of Jacksonville, and directed by historian Carita Doggett Corse. Folklorist Stetson Kennedy directed the Florida Folklife section. Seven recording expeditions were conducted in Florida. Two were conducted between 1935 and 1937, before the creation of the Florida Folklore Section: one by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, and the other by John and Ruby Lomax. After 1939, five more were conducted by Florida’s FWP staff: Kennedy, Hurston, Robert Cook, Alton Morris, Corse, Robert Cornwell, John Filareton, and Herbert Halpert (of the Joint Committee on Folk Art’s Southern Recording Expedition.) Recording equipment was loaned to Florida’s WPA program by the Library of Congress’ Archive of the American Folk Song (later the American Folk Center). The field recordings were made on acetate disks, usually recorded at 78 rpm (although occasionally at 33 rpm). Because these disks were shipped from Washington DC to Florida, then to the recording site, and then back to Washington, these disks often were not of the highest sonic quality. Several had surface scratches and many had various recording speeds. In 1986, the FFP staff made copies of many of these recordings onto reel to reels for inclusion to the Florida Folklife Archive. The originals are still housed with the Library of Congress.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t92-024 | Sam Pacetti performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) | Sound | Guitarist
Singers
Musicians
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Performances
Music performance
Guitar music
Guitarists
Folk singers
Singing
Minorcans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1701_01_tape01 | Morning Program at the Old Marble Stage (Tape 1) | Sound | Concerts
Community concerts
Songs
Folk singers
Guitarists
Minorcans
Guitar music
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Florida history
Local history
Tributes
Singers
Musicians
Performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Morning Program at the Old Marble Stage (Tape 1)
- Date
- 1995-10-21
- Description
- One DAT tape. Pacetti sang a tribute to Gamble Rogers. Moore was a street musician from St. Augustine. There were two programs for the 1995 Songs Along the Suwannee concert, recorded onto five DAT tapes.
- Collection
| a_s1701_01_tape02 | Morning Program at the Old Marble Stage (Tape 2) | Sound | Concerts
Community concerts
Songs
Folk singers
Guitarists
Minorcans
Guitar music
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Florida history
Local history
Tributes
Singers
Musicians
Performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1701_01_tape03a | Morning Program at the Old Marble Stage (Tape 3) | Sound | Concerts
Community concerts
Songs
Folk singers
Guitarists
Minorcans
Guitar music
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Florida history
Local history
Singers
Musicians
Performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1701_01_tape03b | Evening Program at the Old Marble Stage (Tape 3) | Sound | Concerts
Community concerts
Songs
Folk singers
Guitarists
Minorcans
Guitar music
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Florida history
Local history
Singers
Musicians
Performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Evening Program at the Old Marble Stage (Tape 3)
- Date
- 1995-10-21
- Description
- One DAT tape. Grooms is continued on tape 4. There were two programs (morning and evening) for the 1995 Songs Along the Suwannee concert, recorded onto five DAT tapes. Tape 3 contains both the finale of the AM program (described in another entry) and the start of the evening program.
- Collection
| a_s1701_01_tape04 | Evening Program at the Old Marble Stage (Tape 4) | Sound | Concerts
Community concerts
Songs
Folk singers
Guitarists
Minorcans
Guitar music
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Florida history
Local history
Singers
Musicians
Performers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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