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I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It

Date: 1981
Description: One video cassette (VHS) 28:46 minutes A documentary of white oak basket maker Lucreaty Clark. Grammley narrated. Bulger and Dyen were co-producers. A co-production of the FFP and WJCT, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

Date: 1979-10-31
Description: Six reel to reels. Lucreaty Clark was a white oak basket maker, a tradition that stretched back in her family to antebellum times. In 1979, no one else was making split white oak baskets, and she presumed the tradition would die with her. (In the mid-1980s, she trained her grandson Alphonso Jennings to make white oak baskets.) T79-23: Topics included plantation work, cooking, her first marriage, her children, Brer Rabbit tales, games, and smoking beef. T79-25: Clark discusses how she chooses the white oak to make her baskets, how she splits the wood, her tools, selling the baskets, sues of the baskets, and how her parents taught her the skill. T79-26: Clark talks about raising hogs, Christmas baskets, and various basket types. T79-27: Clark talks about giving birth, weather predictions, raising her kids, snakes in the area, and her grandchildren. T79-28: Recording of Clark making a basket while she narrates throughout the process. Afterwards, she talks about -- and tells -- stories from her childhood, including ghost stories, Brer rabbit tales, and Little Red Riding Hood. T79-29: She discusses marriage and kids, midwives, losing her last child during childbirth, morning sickness, medicinal cures for childbirth pains, birthmarks, pregnancy superstitions, and how to finish a basket.
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First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Date: 1978-04-14
Description: One audio cassette. Side 1: Clarke, born in Jefferson County in 1904, started making white oak baskets when she was 13. She learned to do so from her parents and grandparents and discusses the types of baskets she made and explains how she makes them. She also discusses her grandparents - - who were once slaves - - and talks about the changes Lamont, Florida, has undergone throughout the years. In addition, she talks about planting and harvesting collards, peas, sweet corn, tomatoes, okra, and snap beans, and she discusses cooking collards and snap beans. Side 2: Clarke continues her discussion on foods and wild plants like the palm tree bud [??], polk salad (poisonous), elephant ears, tanion, and pepper grass. Also, she describes home remedies such as mint, ragweed, tallow, turpentine and camphos, castor oil and turpentine, cow water (for whooping cough), "Yellow Gal" (for fever), asaphidity bag. Further, she talks about growing up on a plantation, travels to Syracuse, New York, New Jersey, and Naples, Florida, talks about her relatives, and discusses finishing baskets by soaking them in water for a brown finish.
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Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark

Date: 1980-10-29
Description: Ten reel-to-reel audiotapes, copied onto audio cassettes C81-1 through C81-9. Interview with white oak basket maker Clark. Her neighbor, Anderson, joins her for part of the interview. She discusses growing up, her family history, life in rural Florida on a farm, cooking (hogs, squirrels, nuts, greens, mussels, etc), household chores, wood stoves versus gas stones, basket making, types of oak, farming, hunting, her church, gospel music, and her conversion to Christianity. She and Anderson also sing several religious songs.
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Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry

Date: 1980-10-29
Description: One reel to reel. Interview with farmers who were neighbors of Lucreaty Clark (she also talks on the recording). Topics include farming, farm animals, marriage, wood stoves, cane grinding, chores, railroad work, and mules. For images of Perry's farm, see S 1577, box 17, box 83.
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Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry

Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen

Date: 1994-01-15
Description: One audio cassette. Apprentice Steen agreed to learn from Jennings to select, cut, split, and shape white oak strips, and weave them into baskets: four small trash baskets, one market basket, one Easter basket, one laundry basket, and one cotton basket. For more information on Noble, see S 1644, box 11, folder 26. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
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Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen

Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Date: 1977-05-18
Description: One audio cassette. On side 1 Udell discussed making yo yo quilts. On side 2 Clark discussed how her son gathered White Oak on the Magnolia plantation; how to split oak; how she first started and her history of making the baskets. Much of the interview with Clark was not recorded due to technical difficulties.
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Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Lucreaty Clark interview from Learned It in Back Days and Kept It

Date: 1980-11-09
Description: Cassette copy of reel-to-reel audiotapes recorded for the film Learned It in Back Days and Kept It (FV-131). Clark is interviewed by Bulger with two others (Fred and Gertrude), and other unidentified visitors. She discusses friendliness with neighbors, the local community, and her family. She sings fragments of two songs, "Someone Cares for Me" and a palm-a-needle playsong. Clark and her grandaughter, Shelia, prepare food.
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Lucreaty Clark interview from Learned It in Back Days and Kept It

Lucreaty Clark slide-tape presentation

Date: 1980
Description: One audio cassette. An educational audio and slide-tape presentation entitled It Will Be Gone When I Am Gone about Clark and her white oak baskets. The program was created from earlier fieldwork images and audio recordings. In the late 1970s, the FFP under the direction of Bulger created six audio and slide programs about Florida folklife for use by schools, libraries, and other organizations. Duplicate copies can be found in S 1576, box 38, tapes 1-3.
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Lucreaty Clark slide-tape presentation

Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview

Date: 1980-09-22
Description: Clark, L. Anderson, and M. Anderson sing religious songs and talk about church, gospel music, funerals, and the palm-a needle game.
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Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview

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I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It	I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It	Moving Image	Basket maker Documentary videos Video recording Television Interviewing on television African Americans Elderly, the White oak Basket making Basket work Basketry Baskets Interviews Fieldwork	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
a_s1576_t79-023	First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project	Sound	Fieldwork Interviews African Americans Life histories Oral history Personal experience narratives White oak Basket making Basket work Basketry Baskets Family history Marriage Trickster tales Animal tales Childbirth Children Supernatural legends Beliefs and cultures Domestic arts Midwives Healers Basket maker Storytellers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_02_c78-047	Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark	Sound	Basket maker Interviews Basket work Basket making Basketry African Americans White oak Family history Life histories Agriculture Family farming Seed crops Food preparation Food habits Plants Flora Harvesting Healers Medicine Fieldwork	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t80-097	Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark	Sound	Field recordings Oral histories Interviews African Americans Basket making Religious songs Foodways Domestic arts	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t80-105	Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry	Sound	Fieldwork Interviews African Americans Family farming Sugarcane grinding Agriculture Farm life Animals Domestic animals Stoves, Wood Equipment, domestic arts Personal experience narratives Life histories Farmers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1640_24_tape16	Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen	Sound	Basket maker Fieldwork Apprentices White oak Basket making African Americans Basket work Basketry Baskets Weaving Axes Tools Wood craft Woodwork	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_01_c77-026	Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark	Sound	Interviews African Americans Basket making Basket work Basketry Baskets White oak Wood craft Quilts Textile arts Design Decorative arts Material culture Fieldwork Basket maker Quiltmakers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_c80-027	Lucreaty Clark interview from Learned It in Back Days and Kept It	sound	Field recordings Interviews African Americans Oral histories Foodways	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_05_c81-018	Lucreaty Clark slide-tape presentation	Sound	Education A capella singing Basket making Interviews African Americans Domestic arts White oak baskets Oral narratives Field recordings Religious songs	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_05_c81-016	Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview	Sound	Field recordings Interviews Gospel music African Americans A capella singing Religious songs Games	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It

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First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry

Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry

Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen

Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen

Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Lucreaty Clark interview from Learned It in Back Days and Kept It

Lucreaty Clark interview from Learned It in Back Days and Kept It

Lucreaty Clark slide-tape presentation

Lucreaty Clark slide-tape presentation

Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview

Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview

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I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It

I Learned It In Back Days and Kept It

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

First Lucreaty Clark interview for the Lucreaty Clark Project

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with basketmaker Lucreaty Clark

Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry

Interview with farmers Sam and Jessie Perry

Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen

Interview with white oak basket maker Alphonso Jennings with apprentice Michael Steen

Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Interviews with quilter Queenie Udell and basket maker Lucreaty Clark

Lucreaty Clark interview from Learned It in Back Days and Kept It

Lucreaty Clark interview from Learned It in Back Days and Kept It

Lucreaty Clark slide-tape presentation

Lucreaty Clark slide-tape presentation

Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview

Lucreaty Clark, Lucious Anderson & Mary Anderson interview