| Apalachicola oysterers | Apalachicola oysterers | Still Image | Fieldwork
Occupational groups
Oyster fisheries
Oyster industries
Boats and boating
Skiffs
Maritime life
Labor
Transportation
Waterways
Saltwater fishing
Workers
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Apalachicola oysterers
- Date
- 1986-10-30
- Description
- Twenty-two color slides. 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. 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
| Corky Richards and his apprentice making oyster tongs | Corky Richards and his apprentice making oyster tongs | Still Image | Seafood gathering
Material culture
Metal craft
Tools
Fisheries
Oyster industries
Oyster fisheries
Maritime life
Occupational groups
Guitarists
Musical instruments
Oyster tongs
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Corky Richards and his apprentice making oyster tongs
- Date
- 1987-03
- Description
- Sixty three slides, with negatives. Images of Corky Richards with Rodney Richards on making oyster tongs for harvesting oysters in Apalachicola Bay. Includes three images of Rodney Richards playing the guitar.
- 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_tape18 | Interview with fisher Frank "Sonny Boy" Segree | Sound | Fieldwork
Sound recording
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral narratives
Maritime life
Oral histories
Life histories
Fishing
Seafood gathering
Family history
Netmaking
Boatbuilding
Shrimpers (persons)
Oyster industries
Oyster fisheries
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with fisher Frank "Sonny Boy" Segree
- Date
- 1986-11-11
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with fisher Segree in Eastpoint. Segree discusses oystering; shrimping; family history; growing up in the Panhandle; life during the Depression; netmaking; boatbuilding; oystering; crabbing; trot lines; arrival of motors; shrimping; star navigation; catching flounder; local businesses; fish houses; and selling seafood. A duplicate copy of the interview may be found at the Library of Congress's American Folk Center archive (AFS 26,814-26,815). 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. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project may be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
- Collection
| a_s1576_23_c86-197 | Interview with oyster fisher Mike Hilchey | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Oysters
Oyster fisheries
Oyster industries
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Cooking and dining
Cookery (Seafood)
Cookery (Oysters)
Fisheries
Dealers (Retail trade)
Fishing
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with oyster fisher Mike Hilchey
- Date
- 1985-08-28
- Description
- One audio cassette. Discusses Hilchey's family involvement in oyster fishing (going back to his great-grandfather); boat making; oyster regulation; learning oystering; descriptions of local oyster areas such as Simpson's Creek; vernacular names for oysters; names of oyster beds; oyster seasons; local oyster men; kinship ties in the business; his customers; cooking and serving oysters; and change in the business. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| a_s1576_40_tape18 | Interview with oysterer Jeff Hewett | Sound | Fishers
Fieldwork
Interviews
Occupational groups
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Occupational folklore
Family history
Maritime folklore
Maritime life
Oyster fisheries
Oyster tongs
Oyster industries
Tools
Fishing Equipment and supplies | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with oysterer Jeff Hewett
- Date
- 1986-11-12
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with oysterer Hewett. Between 1986 and 1987, a partnership between the Florida Folklife Program and the American Folk Center created the Maritime Heritage Survey Project. Focusing on 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. The three main researchers were Nancy Nusz, Merri Belland, and project director David Taylor. Additional information on the project may be found in Taylor's project files in S 1716.
- Collection
| a_s1592_06_tape12 | Loys Cain interview for the Maritime Heritage Survey Project | Sound | Field recordings
Knives
Occupational groups
Metal craft
Knife grinding
Tools
Oyster industries
Fishing equipment and supplies
Interviews
Oral narratives
Knifesmiths | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1592_02_folder06 | Mack Novak - Oyster Man Blues / I Wish | sound | Singers
Sound recordings
Oyster industries
Folk singers
Maritime folklore | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Mack Novak - Oyster Man Blues / I Wish
- Date
- 1987
- Description
- One 45 vinyl record (CSS-152). Produced by St. George Sound Records, recorded at Central Sound Studios in Auburndale, Florida. The two songs were written and performed by Eastpoint native Novak.
- Collection
| Oyster fishers demonstrate oyster tong making | Oyster fishers demonstrate oyster tong making | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Material culture
Oyster industries
Oyster tongs
Seafood gathering
Occupational groups
Demonstrations
Fishing
Oysters
Metal craft
Tools
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Oyster fishers demonstrate oyster tong making
- Date
- 1985-05-24
- Description
- Sixteen color slides. Apprentice Rodney Richards and master Corky Richards, both of Apalachicola, demonstrate how to make oyster tongs at the Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
| Oyster shucking knife maker Loys Cain | Oyster shucking knife maker Loys Cain | Still Image | Fieldwork
Knives
Occupational groups
Metal craft
Knife grinding
Tools
Oyster industries
Workshops
Fishing Equipment and supplies
Artisans
Knifesmiths | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Oyster shucking knife maker Loys Cain
- Date
- 1986-10-14
- Description
- Twenty color slides. Images of Cain in his shop making an oyster shucking knife. Shucking is the removal of oysters from their shell. For more of Cain, see S 1577, Box 4, folder 5. For an interview, see S 1592, box 8, tape 10. 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. 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
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