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Interview with Maggie Melton

Date: 1978-05-09
Description: Two audio cassettes. C78-55: Margaret (Maggie) Melton discusses snake and alligator hunting, cooking, and skinning; making birdhouses from gourds; working with hides and bones; foods unique to the Plant City area; cooking hog organs and gophers; making turtle soup; cane grinding and syrup making; candy pulls; fishing nets made from burlap sacks; and teas used for home remedies. C78-56: Melton discusses making things from nature; fishing for and cooking scallops; gardening during a full moon; making jewelry from bones; preparing snake hides; and making belts.
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Interview with Maggie Melton

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-26
Description: One reel to reel recording. Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Date: 1989-05-27
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Patricia Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-28
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Sawin served as emcee. They discuss earthworm catching (including earthworm grunting), catching and selling gopher tortoises, types of fish bait, catching suckerfish, and other fishing folklore. They also disucss hunting, and alligator hunting, as well as insects and pests encountered.
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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Rattlesnake Round-up

Date: 1976-10-16
Description: Seventeen color slides. Rattlesnake round-ups are when a community gathers/hunts rattlesnakes in the local woods to 'clean up' the area. By the 1990s, the San Antonio Round-up, held each October, evolved into the San Antonio Rattlesnake Festival, focusing on environmental education and festival activities. Images are of gopher tortoise races; milking rattlesnakes; bluegrass bands; and crafts booths. Slides S77-23 and S77-35 are missing.
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Rattlesnake Round-up

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
a_s1576_02_c78-055	Interview with Maggie Melton	Sound	Artisans Interviews Fieldwork Snakes Belts (Clothing) Animals Alligators Leather goods Life histories Hunting Fauna Food preparation Jewelry making Turtles Domestic arts	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-059b	Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Fishers Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Fishing Fishing baits Baitworms Earthworms Turtles Gopher tortoise Workshops (Adult education)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-071	Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Fishing Fishing baits Baitworms Earthworms Turtles Gopher tortoise Workshops (Adult education) Fishers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-082	Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Fishers Hunters Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Fishing Fishing baits Baitworms Earthworms Turtles Gopher tortoise Workshops (Adult education)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Rattlesnake Round-up	Rattlesnake Round-up	Still Image	Fieldwork Festivals Special events Bluegrass musicians Rattlesnakes Animals Contests Gopher tortoise Turtles Races	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg

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Interview with Maggie Melton

Interview with Maggie Melton

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Rattlesnake Round-up

Rattlesnake Round-up

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Interview with Maggie Melton

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Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Leisure sports and fishing workshop at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Rattlesnake Round-up

Rattlesnake Round-up