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Interview with storyteller Ed Winn

Date: 1994-01-03
Description: Two audio cassettes. An interview with storyteller and local author Winn. A lifelong Florida native, he discusses traditional Central Florida culture. He read most of his stories. For more information, see file in S 1664, box 5, folder 31.
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Interview with storyteller Ed Winn

Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

Date: 1986-05-14
Description: Five audio cassettes. Recordings of a seminar regarding teaching folklore in the class room (in the previous years, the seminars were called Folklife in the Classroom Teachers Seminar.) The theme dealt with field research and publishing. The keynote speaker was George Reynolds, author/editor of the Foxfire books. He spoke, along with some of his students, on research, interviewing, editing, and publishing as an educational tool.
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Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

Saturday morning performances at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Date: 1957-05-04
Description: One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Detailed information on the performers can be found on the 1957 festival program, located in S 1619, box 1.
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Saturday morning performances at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Date: 1979-06-06
Description: One reel to reel. Taylor discusses her life and career as a midwife. Topics include family history; training with a local doctor; childbirth; medicinal treatments; pre-natal care; her first delivery in 1953; complications in childbirth including tearing, placenta, twins, and breached births; birth-related superstitions; labor pains; and monetary charges. Bonnie Carden, another midwife, also joins in towards the end of the interview.
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Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

Date: 1979-10-31
Description: Six reel to reels. Lucreaty Clark was a white oak basket maker, a tradition that stretched back in her family to antebellum times. In 1979, no one else was making split white oak baskets, and she presumed the tradition would die with her. (In the mid-1980s, she trained her grandson Alphonso Jennings to make white oak baskets.) T79-23: Topics included plantation work, cooking, her first marriage, her children, Brer Rabbit tales, games, and smoking beef. T79-25: Clark discusses how she chooses the white oak to make her baskets, how she splits the wood, her tools, selling the baskets, sues of the baskets, and how her parents taught her the skill. T79-26: Clark talks about raising hogs, Christmas baskets, and various basket types. T79-27: Clark talks about giving birth, weather predictions, raising her kids, snakes in the area, and her grandchildren. T79-28: Recording of Clark making a basket while she narrates throughout the process. Afterwards, she talks about -- and tells -- stories from her childhood, including ghost stories, Brer rabbit tales, and Little Red Riding Hood. T79-29: She discusses marriage and kids, midwives, losing her last child during childbirth, morning sickness, medicinal cures for childbirth pains, birthmarks, pregnancy superstitions, and how to finish a basket.
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First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

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.
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Interview with boot maker Steve Ryan

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.
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Interview with butcher Benjamin Willard Redditt

Interview with cook Nettie Ward

Date: 1993-12-03
Description: Two audio cassettes.
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Interview with cook Nettie Ward

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.
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Interview with hymn liner Troy Demps

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).
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Interview with Monsignor Daniel Hegerty

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a_s1664_07_tape67	Interview with storyteller Ed Winn	Sound	Authors Fieldwork Interviews Personal experience narratives Oral histories Life histories Oral history Storytelling Oral narratives Local history Storytellers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_18_c86-042	Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar	Sound	Educators Teacher Conferences and seminars series Seminars Workshops (Adult education) Teaching of folklore Interviewing Teachers Fieldwork (educational method) Education Folklife Publishers and publishing Oral history Oral tradition Editing Writing Folklorists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t77-058	Saturday morning performances at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Scouts and scouting Jump rope rhymes Local history Dance Dance music Oral history Singing Storytelling Oral narratives Singers Dancers Storytellers Children Girl Scouts Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t79-005	Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project	Sound	Fieldwork Interviews Oral history Personal experience narratives African Americans Midwifery Occupational groups Occupational training Health Labor Children Natural medicine Natural childbirth Healers Family history Beliefs and cultures Midwives	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t79-023	First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project	Sound	Fieldwork Interviews African Americans Life histories Oral history Personal experience narratives White oak Basket making Basket work Basketry Baskets Family history Marriage Trickster tales Animal tales Childbirth Children Supernatural legends Beliefs and cultures Domestic arts Midwives Healers Basket maker Storytellers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
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
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
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_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
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

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Interview with storyteller Ed Winn

Interview with storyteller Ed Winn

Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

Saturday morning performances at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Saturday morning performances at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

Interview with boot maker Steve Ryan

Interview with boot maker Steve Ryan

Interview with butcher Benjamin Willard Redditt

Interview with butcher Benjamin Willard Redditt

Interview with cook Nettie Ward

Interview with cook Nettie Ward

Interview with hymn liner Troy Demps

Interview with hymn liner Troy Demps

Interview with Monsignor Daniel Hegerty

Interview with Monsignor Daniel Hegerty

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Interview with storyteller Ed Winn

Interview with storyteller Ed Winn

Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar

Saturday morning performances at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Saturday morning performances at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

Annie Mae Taylor interview for the North Florida Folklife Project

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

Interview with boot maker Steve Ryan

Interview with boot maker Steve Ryan

Interview with butcher Benjamin Willard Redditt

Interview with butcher Benjamin Willard Redditt

Interview with cook Nettie Ward

Interview with cook Nettie Ward

Interview with hymn liner Troy Demps

Interview with hymn liner Troy Demps

Interview with Monsignor Daniel Hegerty

Interview with Monsignor Daniel Hegerty