Gamble Rogers telling a tall tale at the 1978 Florida FolK Festival | Gamble Rogers telling a tall tale at the 1978 Florida FolK Festival | Still Image | Performing arts Storytelling Tall tales Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Performers Oral narratives Oral performance Singers Mason Entertainers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla Springs | Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla Springs | Still Image | African Americans Boats and boating Narratives Tall tales Storytelling Storytellers Oral performance Oral communication Rivers Springs Tourism Workplace Workers Labor Glass bottom boats Ecotourism Wildlife watching industry Boat driver Tour guides (Persons) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Hawk Jackson giving boat tour at Wakulla Springs
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- 1980
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- Black and white 9.5 x 14 inch mounted photographic print. Images of Wakulla Springs, a popular tourist located just south of Tallahassee that offered boat tours and lodging. One of the features on the tours was Henry the Fish, a bass fish that would appear to jump over a pole when called. Hawk Jackson died in 2001.
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Lem Griffis telling a tall tale at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival | Lem Griffis telling a tall tale at the 1957 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folklore revival festivals Folk festivals Oral performance Performing arts Tall tales Storytelling Speech events Humor Anecdotes Comedy Jokes Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.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 |
Cecil Gunter interview
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- 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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a_s1576_t83-135 | Copy of the phonographic album: Florida Folk Festival -- the First 25 Years | Sound | Shape note singers Musicians Guitarist Singers Sound recordings Music performance African Americans Czechoslovakian Americans Tall tales Guitar music Gospel (Black) Musical tradition, sacred Shape note singing Storytelling Seminole Indians Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Copy of the phonographic album: Florida Folk Festival -- the First 25 Years
- Date
- 1953
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (Also copied onto audio cassette C83-98) A recording of the 25th anniversary album produced by the FFP staff in honor of the Florida Folk Festival, covering 1952 - 1977. Released in 1981, the album was culled from the recordings of the Florida Folk Festivals found in S 1576. See notes in S 1579, box 1, folder: 'T83-117 through T83-120' for which reels these selections were copied from.
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a_s1576_05_c81-024 | Early version of Florida Folk Festival retrospective album | Sound | Music -- Performance African Americans Tall tales Gospel music Shape note singing Storytelling Seminole Indians Folk festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Early version of Florida Folk Festival retrospective album
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- One audio cassette. An early, longer version of the album that became Florida Folk Festival: The First 25 Years (1953-1977), produced by the Florida Folklife Program. For the complete album, see T83-135 and C83-93.
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a_s1576_t86-227b | Field recording compilation for the National Federation of Music Clubs | sound | Track-lining songs Tall tales Field recordings Music--Performance African Americans Czech Americans Yugoslav Americans Folk music--United States | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Field recording compilation for the National Federation of Music Clubs
- Date
- 1962
- Description
- Second part of one reel-to-reel tape. Psenka performs traditional Czech music accompaniment for a beseda, the Czech national folk dance. Psenka and the dancers were from Masaryktown. Tomazin (concertina), from Samsula, is accompanied by a young Yugoslavian student on steel guitar. Griffis, from Fargo, Ga., tells a tall tale. Swails (fiddle), from Branford, Whitehead, from Sarasota, and Fowler, from Live Oak, demonstrate straw-beating by hitting straws against the fiddle strings. Weldon (vocals), from Gainesville, is accompanied by Moore, from Denver, Col., on autoharp. Moon (Celtic harp, vocals) was from Gainesville. Paul Woodard (musical saw) and his wife, Elsie (piano), were from Bushnell. McDaniel, from Live Oak, performs with two harmonica, playing one with his nose. Pavitt, from Sarasota, performs an original composition about Hurricane Donna (1960). The Southern Railway Extra Gang No. 4 is led by foreman Simpson, and consists of railway workers Clark, Roberts, Goodwin, Jackson and Oliver; this field recording was made in 1958 near the rail station in White Springs.
These recordings, originally made by Boltin and sent to archivist Annabel Morris Buchanan of the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) in 1962, were copied by the Florida Folklife Program from a 7-inch reel-to-reel in the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, numbered AFS 14,006.
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a_s1576_01_c77-016 | Folk Singer/Storyteller Gamble Rogers Concert at Lake City Community College | Sound | Singing Music performance Storytelling Musicians Guitarists Guitar music Concerts Tales Tall tales Performing arts Guitarist Singers Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t77-067 | Friday afternoon performances at the 1958 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Elementary schools Seminole Indians Creek Indians Native Americans Oral performance Tall tales Storytelling Oral narratives Dance Singers Storytellers Tour guides (Persons) Boat driver Dancers Children Choruses Musicians Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t77-158 | Friday afternoon performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3) | Sound | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Folk singers Singing Tall tales Storytelling Oral performance Vietnamese Arts, Asian Asians Singers Storytellers Children Boy Scouts Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday afternoon performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)
- Date
- 1966-05-06
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Rain lived in Gainesville. Smith was from Fort Myers. Daniels and Webb were both from Jacksonville. Once called the 'Woody Guthrie of Vietnam,' Pham Duy wrote over 1000 songs. Born in Ha Noi in 1921, he trained in Paris in the 1940s. A part of the anti-French resistance, Pham Duy traveled Vietnam learning folk songs, and supporting regime change. In Spring 1966, as part of a cultural exchange program with the US, the 46 year old Saigon resident toured the United States. By the 1980s, Duy resided in California, still writing and performing. An image of him can be found in S 1578, box 3, folder 36.
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