| 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
- Date
- 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.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| 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
- Date
- 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.
- 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_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.
- 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_s1592_06_tape16 | Interview with netmaker Costa Buzier | Sound | Fieldwork
Sound recordings
Netmaking
Nets
Fishing nets
Occupational groups
Textile arts
Maritime life
Interviewing
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Family history
Weather
Ethnometeorology
Beliefs and cultures
Belief systems
Occupational folklore
Shrimpers (persons)
Boats
Hurricanes
Net maker
Fishers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with netmaker Costa Buzier
- Date
- 1986-11-11
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Buzier at his netmaking shop by Taylor and Hepburn. He discusses his father as a fisher and shrimper; family history; learning the fishing trade; shrimping; clamming; hurricanes; oystering; local businesses; George Kirvin; recreation activities of fishers; oyster canning; Apalachicola life; learning to make nets; net making tools and methods; shrimp trawls; net mending; weather folklore; superstitions; and netmakers like Billy Burbank. 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
| a_s1592_06_tape08 | Interview with oyster shuckers Virginia Duggar and Nanette Lolley | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Fishing
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Shrimpers (persons)
Stores, retail
Boats and boating
Mullet fisheries
Dealers (Retail trade)
Local history
Family history
Mullet fishing
Oyster tongs
Oyster shucking
Weather
Shuckers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with oyster shuckers Virginia Duggar and Nanette Lolley
- Date
- 1986-10-10
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with oyster shuckers Duggar and Lolley. They discuss family history; George Kirvin (Duggar's first boss); local oysters; job conditions; shucking; how they learned the craft; Loys Cain; tools for shucking; and fishing superstitions. 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_tape06 | Interview with seafood dealer George Kirvin | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Life histories
Fishing
Seafood gathering
Seafood industry
Shrimpers (persons)
Stores, retail
Boats and boating
Mullet fisheries
Local history
Family history
Mullet fishing
Oyster tongs
Oyster shucking
Weather
Merchants
Dealers (Retail trade) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with seafood dealer George Kirvin
- Date
- 1986-10-09
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with well-known seafood dealer Kirvin. In 1965, he won a Governor's Award for contribution to Florida seafood. He discusses his start as a fisher and a boat captain; Apalachicola Bay; his start in dealing seafood in 1960s; local contributions and activities; Governor's Award; rifts between commerical and sports fishing; politics; family history; learning fishing; local history; fishing; seining; mullet fishing; locating fish; oystering; and hurricanes. 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_07_fmp86-adt009 | Interview with shrimper and boat builder Charles Herrin | 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
Shrimps
Shrimpers (persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with shrimper and boat builder Charles Herrin
- Date
- 1986-07-31
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Interview with Mayport shrimper Charles Herrin. He discusses growing up around fishing; learning the trade; boatbuilding; life on a shrimp boat; fishing slang; boat launching ceremonies; fishing folklore, beliefs, and superstitions; weather; navigating techniques; shrimping methods; naming boats; food habits; and recreational activities. 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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