Florida Yesterday: Seafood (rough cut version) | Florida Yesterday: Seafood (rough cut version) | Moving Image | Television Storytelling Fishing Personal experience narratives Tales Docks Alligator hunting Alligators Fishing stories Shrimpers (persons) Boats and boating Seafood gathering Seafood industry Fishing nets Rivers Occupational folklore Occupational groups Interviewing on television Fishers Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Yesterday: Seafood (rough cut version)
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- 1977-03-08
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- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) See V86-27 for the master version. Filmed at Hagan Seafood Dock, the video consists of Frog Smith talking with Lehr (on the dock, and on a couple of the shrimp boats) about alligator hunting, pirtaes, Calusa Indians, shrimping, fishing, excavating lcoal mounds, and how the Caloosahatchee River has developed. Also inlcudes B-roll footage of several shrimp boats.
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Folklife at the Mayport Seafood Festival | Folklife at the Mayport Seafood Festival | Still Image | Festivals Special events Seafood Maritime folklore Maritime life Choirs (music) Workshops Boats and boating Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folklife at the Mayport Seafood Festival
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- 1991-10-26
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- Ten color slides. Images taken during the Mayport Seafood Festival. 1: Welding shop; 2: Matt Rolland's dock; 3-5: Shrimp boats; 6-8: Black church choir; 9-10: Festival crowds.
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Folklorist David Taylor interviewing shrimper Charles Herrin | Folklorist David Taylor interviewing shrimper Charles Herrin | Still Image | Fieldwork Oral communication Interviewing Sound recording Research methods Audiotape recordings Recording equipment Boatbuilders Folklorists Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folklorist David Taylor interviewing shrimper Charles Herrin
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- 1986-04-05
- Description
- Three contact sheets with 77 photographic black and white images; plus logs and negatives. Copy of the interview can be found in S 1592, box 7, tapes 12-14. 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.
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a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt002 | Interview with Captain Eddie Baker | Sound | Fieldwork Interviewing Interviews Life histories Sound recordings Oral histories Fishers Occupational groups Boats and boating Seafood gathering Family history Maritime life Maritime folklore Occupational folklore Folklore Labor African Americans Family farming Religion Beliefs and cultures World War, 1939-1945 Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Captain Eddie Baker
- Date
- 1986-07-16
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Captain Eddie Baker. Born in Georgia, Baker moved to Mayport in the 1920s, and worked as a captain for several fish houses. He discusses growing up around fishing and farming; farming techniques; learning the trade; recreational fishing; eating and cooking fish; skippering shrimp boats; economic aspects of shrimping; immigrant fishers in Mayport; regulations of fishing; World War II in Florida; bait; weather lore; superstitions and folklore; dangers of shrimping; and race relations. 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.
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a_s1576_21_c86-146 | Interview with Father Robert Baker | Sound | Fieldwork Interviews Oral histories Personal experience narratives Life histories Shrimpers (persons) Occupational folklore Seafood gathering Seafood industry Religion Catholics Fishers Christianity Fishing Priests | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Father Robert Baker
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- 1985-02-07
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview begins on SIDE TWO of tape. Father Baker, priest for the Basilica Cathedral of St. Augustine, discusses the St. Augustine Blessing of the Fleet. He gives details of the strong Italian Catholic population in St. Augustine as well as a general support for religious/cultural events within the city. He elaborates on the symbolism and ceremony of the Blessing, as well as outlining its religious significance. 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). A transcript of the interview can be found in S 1579, box 1, folder: C86-99 through C86-149.
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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.
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a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt004 | Interview with Geraldine Margerum and John Gavagan, Jr. | Sound | Fieldwork Sound recording Interviewing Interviews Life histories Oral histories Oral narratives Family history Shrimpers (persons) Saltwater fishing Labor World War, 1939-1945 Cooking and dining Seafood gathering Cookery (Mullet) Seafood Folklore Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Geraldine Margerum and John Gavagan, Jr.
- Date
- 1986-07-26
- Description
- Three audio cassettes. Interview with Geraldine Margerum, whose family were long-time Mayport fishers. She discusses growing up in North Carolina; moving to Florida in the 1930s; working at a local Jacksonville restaurant; World War II; her father-in-law; a local Duval County judge; her husband's death at sea in 1956; Mayport in 1940s and 1950s; commercial fishing; pogy fishing (Menhaden); cooking mullet; stories of local residents; drug running in Mayport; and local legends. Recorded in her home in Neptune Beach. 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.
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a_s1592_07_fmp86-adt014 | Interview with Hilton Floyd | Sound | Interviewing Interviews Oral histories Oral narratives Life histories Occupational groups Maritime life Fishing nets Cotton Netmaking Shrimpers (persons) Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Hilton Floyd
- Date
- 1986-08-21
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with fishing gear specialist, and former fisher, Hilton Floyd. Interviewed in Pascagoula, Mississippi, by his wife Helen Floyd. He discusses Mayport fishers; making and using cast nets; working for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries with the US Fish and Wildlife Commission; types of nets; gill nets; sea island cotton; nylon netting; and shrimping. 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.
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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).
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a_s1576_23_c86-198 | Interview with net maker Martin Cooper | Sound | Net maker Fishers Fishing nets Occupational groups Nets Netmaking Workplace Workshops Weaving Occupational folklore Fishing Equipment and supplies Maritime folklore Labor Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with net maker Martin Cooper
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- 1984-07-24
- Description
- Fifteen color slides. For images of Cooper, see S 1577, v. 37. Cooper, also a fisher, discusses local (Mayport) Swedish and Portuguese fishers; starting out as a fisher in the 1950s; his work as a fisher and as a security guard at Mayport naval base; entering the net business; river shrimping; various seafood licenses; the changing nature of shrimp boats and the trade; the process of making a net; catching mullet; net styles; time involved in netmaking; materials for making nets; various types of nets; and repairing nets. 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, 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.
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