| Basket maker Mebelen Holloway teaching pine needle basket making to Hamilton County High School students | Basket maker Mebelen Holloway teaching pine needle basket making to Hamilton County High School students | Still Image | Basket maker
Education
Students
Classrooms
Schools
Teaching of folklore
Basket making
Basketry
Teachers
Teenagers
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Basket maker Mebelen Holloway teaching pine needle basket making to Hamilton County High School students
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- Description
- Sixteen color slides. Students making baskets under the tutelage of Holloway. Images also incldue teacher Hargrett helping students The Folk Arts in Schools Project in Columbia and Hamilton County was a joint venture between the county school systems and the Florida Folklife Program. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists.
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| a_s1576_38_tape17 | Recordings of the 1987 Summer Folk Culture Seminar | Sound | Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Teaching of folklore
Education
Teachers
Folklife
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Storytelling
Tales
Teacher
Educators
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recordings of the 1987 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
- Date
- 1987-07-13
- Description
- Ten audio cassettes. (The final tape appears to be blank.) The theme for this year was Seminole Indian folklore. The main speaker was Dr. Rayna Green, director of the American Indian Program with the Smithsonian Institute. A graduate from the Indian university folklife program, she researched and wrote on Native American culture and images. She also taught at several universities, and published several books. Other speakers included traditional healer Jeanette Cypress and Seminole Tribe of Florida president James Billie.
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| St. Nicholas Greek Dancers at Pinellas County Schools | St. Nicholas Greek Dancers at Pinellas County Schools | Still Image | Dance
Folk dance
Education
Children
Schools
Teachers
Body movement
Performing arts
Dancers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Golden Age Project program at Niblack Elementary School | Golden Age Project program at Niblack Elementary School | Still Image | Education
Teaching of folklore
Elderly, the
Classrooms
Elementary schools
Teachers
Children
Demonstrations
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Golden Age Project program at Niblack Elementary School
- Date
- 1981-11-24
- Description
- Six color slides. Older residents answering student questions about traditional crafts. The Folk Arts in Schools Project in Columbia and Hamilton County was a joint venture between the county school systems and the Florida Folklife Program. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists.
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| a_s1576_18_c86-042 | Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar | Sound | Educators
Teacher
Conferences and seminars series
Seminars
Workshops (Adult education)
Teaching of folklore
Interviewing
Teachers
Fieldwork (educational method)
Education
Folklife
Publishers and publishing
Oral history
Oral tradition
Editing
Writing
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of the 1985 Summer Folk Culture Seminar
- Date
- 1986-05-14
- Description
- Five audio cassettes. Recordings of a seminar regarding teaching folklore in the class room (in the previous years, the seminars were called Folklife in the Classroom Teachers Seminar.) The theme dealt with field research and publishing. The keynote speaker was George Reynolds, author/editor of the Foxfire books. He spoke, along with some of his students, on research, interviewing, editing, and publishing as an educational tool.
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| a_s1714_04_tape61 | Interview with educator Margaret Sanchez | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviewing
Interviews
Sound recording
Labor
Occupational groups
Education
Teachers
Teaching
Elementary school principals
Life histories
Oral histories
Oral narratives
Schools
Curricula
Pedagogy
Educators
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Interview with educator Margaret Sanchez
- Date
- 1985-03-05
- Description
- One audio cassette. Interview with Seville Elementary School principal Sanchez about the local Latino/Mexican American community. Sanchez was born and raised in Colorado, and became principal in 1982. In winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the 'St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area' at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
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| a_s1576_t82-005 | Interview with jazz musician Hal (Fess) Andrews | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
African Americans
Big band music
Musicians
Education
Personal experience narratives
Jazz music
Ragtime music
Ragtime songs
Teachers
Radio stations
Dance music
Nightclubs
African Americans Segregation
Jazz songs
Popular songs
Music business
Music performance
Jazz musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with jazz musician Hal (Fess) Andrews
- Date
- 1981-11-03
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Poor audio quality in some areas. Interview with Pensacola-based jazz musician Andrews. He discusses learning music; attending Tuskegee Institute; teaching chemistry in Pensacola; varities of jazz music; working with artists like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington; working for a radio station in New York City; leading a big band in the 1940s and 1950s; and various nightclubs in the Pensacola area. Copied onto audiocassettes C83-5 & C83-6.
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| Folk Arts program at Niblack Elementary School | Folk Arts program at Niblack Elementary School | Still Image | Musicians
Education
Classrooms
Schools
Teaching of folklore
Fiddlers
Fiddling
Teachers
Children
Elementary schools
Artifacts
Guitarists
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folk Arts program at Niblack Elementary School
- Date
- 1981-11-18
- Description
- Twenty-four color slides. Educational folklife program in which stduents brought in family traditional artifactas, and musicians Huggins (guitar) and Sconyers (fiddle) played old-time music.The Folk Arts in Schools Project in Columbia and Hamilton County was a joint venture between the county school systems and the Florida Folklife Program. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists.
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| Tatter Connie Berone | Tatter Connie Berone | Still Image | Needleworkers
Teaching of folklore
Education
Students
Elementary schools
Schools
Demonstrations
Tatting
Lacemaking
Lace and lace making
Teachers
Classrooms | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Tatter Connie Berone
- Date
- 1991-11
- Description
- Eleven color slides. Demonstration for second grade student at John E. Ford Elementary School. 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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| a_s1576_14_c84-073 | Seminar on folklife for teachers | Sound | Seminars
Conferences and seminars series
Classrooms
Teaching of folklore
Teachers
Education
Oral education
Occupational training
Fieldwork (educational method)
Educators
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Seminar on folklife for teachers
- Date
- 1983-07-18
- Description
- Seven audio cassettes. C84-73: Nancy Nusz (facilitator); Ormond Loomis, Peggy Bulger, and Barbara Beauchamp discuss Florida Folklife history; history of the Florida Folklife Festival; and answer questions. C84-74: Nancy Nusz (facilitator); Barbara Beauchamp and Peggy Bulger discuss the history of the Florida Folk Festival; history of Florida Folklife; Stephen Foster Music Days; and answer questions. C84-75: Peggy Bulger, Nancy Nusz, and Betty [last name?] answer questions and discuss Dwight Devane's book; Tom Smith; Folk Arts in Education; Folklife catalog. C84-76: Nancy Nusz and teachers discuss tobacco; tobacco and modern technology; black-eyed peas; plays clips of field tapes from Nancy Nusz's work in Madison County (singing, quilters, furniture maker, fiddle player, agriculture, cane syrup, Louise Sanders). C84-77: Self-introduction of all the participants in the seminar (specific names are listed on the index sheet, but I omitted them here); folklorists present included Nancy Nusz and Merri Belland. At the end, Merri Belland talks about how to identify a Folk Artist. C84-78: Merri Belland and teachers discuss how to identify folk artists; showing of baskets; question and answer; Pharoah; Nancy Nusz gives an explanation of folklore; Merri talks about Pharoah; Nancy talks about Guy Labree; question and answer between teachers and Merri and Nancy; Merri discusses folk aesthetic; examples of folk artists; Nancy talks about how to bring folk artists into the classroom; teacher asks about Thelma Boltin; nancy talks about money; talk; travel; honorarium; media. C84-79: Nancy Nusz and teachers discuss contracts; collections/fieldwork; alligator wrestling; research/collection; how to do interviews; Merri Belland discusses foodways.
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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time Program
