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10th Annual Apopka Folk Festival recording

Date: 1976-11-20
Description: One audio cassette. Recording of a folk festival including Greek dancers, yodeling, singers, storytellers, and annoucnements.
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10th Annual Apopka Folk Festival recording

Annette Bruce & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Date: 1993-05-28
Description: One audio cassette recording. Peggy Smith serves as emcee. This recording represents the second portion of tape C93-28. Bruce was from Eustis. She described her experiences telling stories growing up, as well as a story about the Florida Panther, Cracker culture, and other old Florida tales. She is accompanied by a guitarist, Jamie Green. Smith tells a ghost story from Cousin Thelma Boltin.
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Annette Bruce & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Date: 1953-05
Description: One reel to reel recording.
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Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Date: 2007-11-09
Description: Tina Bucuvalas serves as emcee. Forney tells stories about the life, travel, and times of her ancestors, including the origin of the moniker "Cracker" and its various definitions.
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Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Betty Mae Jumper workshop at Summer Seminar

Date: 1985-07-15
Description: Four reel-to-reel recordings. Folklorist Andrea Graham serves as emcee. Jumper speaks about Seminole storytelling, in the process discussing myths; archetypes; her personal history; Seminole beliefs, history, and culture; and examples of Seminole folktales. Copied onto audio cassettes C85-5 through C85-8
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Betty Mae Jumper workshop at Summer Seminar

Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Date: 1989-07-23
Description: Three audio cassettes. This recording has a restriction set by Collins: no reporductions, quotations, or distributioon can be performed with her voice and information. Florida folklorist Collins discusses the occupational folklife and culture, including factories, textile mills, employee-boss relations, Xerox lore, weather and the work environment, and occupational language.
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Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Date: 2007-11-11
Description: Robert "Bob" Stone serves as emcee. Sharp and Rigdon read cowboy poetry and tell stories.
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Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Date: 2007-11-10
Description: Tina Bucuvalas serves as emcee. Sharp reads cowboy poetry.
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Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Cecil Gunter interview

Date: 1976-12
Description: One audio cassette. From Caladonia, Mississippi. Gunter talked about how he once outran the Highway Patrol; told a story an old man thought to be crazy in their neighborhood; spoke about white woman who raised him when he was young; described the near-enslavement she endured as a child; and spoke of segregation in the South and race relations in the North.
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Cecil Gunter interview

Christie Koontz & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Date: 1993-05-28
Description: Two audio cassette recordings. The last portion of side B of tape C93-28 is spliced with the first portion of C93-29. Koontz, from Tallahassee, describes how she became a storyteller. She starts a Seneca Indian story called "How Stories Came Into the World." The tape cuts off and resumes as she's telling a story about how butterflies got their name. She then tells a story called "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse," followed by an African folk tale called "Rabbit and Hyena Play" while accompanying herself on kalimba, an African thumb piano. Smith tells a story about Epaminondas and his grandmother. Durden, a teacher at Hogan-Spring Glen Elementary School in Jacksonville, tells a story about Tippery the Hungry Leprechaun and the origin of potatoes in Ireland. Smith then told another story.
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Christie Koontz & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

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c93-28b	Annette Bruce & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage	sound	Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Oral narratives Folktales	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2043_00042	Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial	Sound	Storytelling Performing arts Oral narratives Oral performance Animal tales African Americans Storytellers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2034_07_cd07-021	Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage	sound	Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Oral narratives Florida Crackers Storytellers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t85-100	Betty Mae Jumper workshop at Summer Seminar	sound	Storytellers Storytelling Native Americans Folktales Seminole Indians Oral narratives	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1712_01_tape02b	Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar	Sound	Conferences and seminars series Seminars Folklore Folklife Occupational groups Occupational folklore Storytelling Tales Employee employee relations Lecturers Teaching of folklore Workshops (Adult education) Museums Employee employer relations Folklorists Oral communication Labor Workplace	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2034_07_cd07-044	Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)	sound	Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Cowboys -- Poetry Cowboys -- Florida Florida Crackers Poetry reading Storytelling	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2034_07_cd07-030	Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage	sound	Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Cowboys -- Poetry Cowboys -- Florida Florida Crackers Poetry reading Storytelling	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-013	Cecil Gunter interview	Sound	Interviews Family history Storytelling Oral narratives Tall tales African Americans	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_30_c93-028c	Christie Koontz & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage	sound	Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Oral narratives Folktales Board mounted lamellaphones	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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10th Annual Apopka Folk Festival recording

10th Annual Apopka Folk Festival recording

Annette Bruce & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Annette Bruce & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Betty Mae Jumper workshop at Summer Seminar

Betty Mae Jumper workshop at Summer Seminar

Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Cecil Gunter interview

Cecil Gunter interview

Christie Koontz & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Christie Koontz & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

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10th Annual Apopka Folk Festival recording

10th Annual Apopka Folk Festival recording

Annette Bruce & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Annette Bruce & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Annie Tomlin performance at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Betty Mae Jumper workshop at Summer Seminar

Betty Mae Jumper workshop at Summer Seminar

Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Camilla Collins presentation at the Folk Culture in the South: Women's Contributions seminar

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Cecil Gunter interview

Cecil Gunter interview

Christie Koontz & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage

Christie Koontz & story swap at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Storytelling Stage