| a_s1640_23_tape27 | Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons | Sound | Woodworkers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Boatbuilding
Skiffs
Transportation
Waterways
Boats and boating
Personal experience narratives
Woodwork
Oral history
Oral narratives
Wood craft
Boatbuilders | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with boat builder Glen Simmons
- Date
- 1992-04-01
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. 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 first folklorist Peter Roller, then folklorist Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape59 | Interview with boot maker Steve Ryan | Sound | Fieldwork
Shoemaking
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Cowboy boots
Boots
Clothing and dress
Footwear
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral history
Leather craft
Family history
Shoemakers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with boot maker Steve Ryan
- Date
- 1993-12-02
- Description
- One audio tape. Recorded at Ryan's Orlando home. Ryan was originally from San Diego, California, where he learned from shoemakers how to construct boots. He discusses his job history, making boots, customized boots (such as for Hank Williams, Jr), history of boot making, and his family history. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 25.
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape61 | Interview with butcher Benjamin Willard Redditt | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Life histories
Oral history
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Meat
Food preparation
Occupational training
Smoked meat
Family history
Family farming
Butchers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with butcher Benjamin Willard Redditt
- Date
- 1993-12-03
- Description
- One audio cassette. An interview with butcher Redditt. He discusses learning commercial butchering; family farm butchering; Orlando pre-Disney World; history of commercial butchers; smoking and preserving meat; and hogs as a food source. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 31.
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape63 | Interview with cook Nettie Ward | Sound | Fieldwork
Domestic arts
Food preparation
Kitchens
Oral history
Food habits
Cooking and dining
Interviews
Desserts
Personal experience narratives
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1664_07_tape65 | Interview with fiddler Clayton Raulerson | Sound | Musicians
Fiddlers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Life histories
Oral history
Fiddling
Family history
Fiddle music
Fiddles
String instruments
Cattle
Ranch life
Ranching
Instrument manufacture
Musical instruments
Musical instrument maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with fiddler Clayton Raulerson
- Date
- 1993-12-06
- Description
- Two audio cassette. An interview with fiddler Raulerson (recorded in his home) who also built and repaired fiddles. He discusses his family history (going back to ranchers in the 1800s), the importance of fiddles to local social life, how to make a fiddle, repairing the fiddles, and tuning methods. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 31.
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape56 | Interview with hymn liner Troy Demps | Sound | Fieldwork
Hymn lining
African Americans
Singing
Music performance
Music rehearsals
Oral performance
Gospel (Black)
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral history
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with hymn liner Troy Demps
- Date
- 1993-12-01
- Description
- One audio tape. Recorded at Demp's residence. He discusses his family history, learning hymns, his childhood illnesses, his work in the US Navy and for Disney, and the hymn lining tradition. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 14.
- Collection
| a_s1576_21_c86-144 | Interview with Monsignor Daniel Hegerty | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Chaplains, Hospital
Personal experience narratives
Shrimpers (persons)
Religion
Occupational folklore
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Christianity
Oral history
Fishers
Catholics
Fishing
Priests
Chaplains | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Monsignor Daniel Hegerty
- Date
- 1985-03-20
- Description
- One audio cassette. Hegerty, a chaplain at St. Vincents Hospital, describes the beginnings of the Blessing of the Fleet in St. Augustine, going back to his first encounters with the fishermen of West Augustine and individual boat blessings, to the large annual procession that it became. He discusses the pageantry of the event, as well as the significance behind it. He also discusses the European roots behind the tradition. There are places throughout the interview where Hegerty asks that the tape be turned off. Interview conducted during fieldwork for video documentary on Florida shrimping called Fishing All My Days, and was made by the Florida Folklife Program, and the University of Florida (WUFT-TV).
- Collection
| a_s1664_07_tape62 | Interview with rug hooker Eileen Quinn | Sound | Rug makers
Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Life histories
Oral history
Rug making
Rugs
Rugs, Hooked
Needlework
Craft | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with rug hooker Eileen Quinn
- Date
- 1993-12-03
- Description
- One audio cassette. An interview with rug hooker Quinn. She made hand-made colonial style rugs from scraps of wool and burlap. She discusses a rug hooking guild that served as a social venue for her and other women; the history of rug hooking; primitive vs. realistic rug hooking; materials used; and dyeing wool. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 31.
- Collection
| a_s1640_24_tape24 | Interview with saddle maker Blake Kral | Sound | Saddle maker
Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Oral history
Saddles
Horses Equipment and supplies
Leather craft
Leather goods
Occupational folklore
Occupational groups
Leather workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with saddle maker Blake Kral
- Date
- 1993-01-11
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. No location given. Duplicate recordings can be found in S 1664, box 7, tapes 50-51. Kral particpated in the Apprenticeship program eight years later in 2001. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
- 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.
- Collection
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