| Demonstrations at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991 | Demonstrations at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991 | Still Image | Festivals
Special events
African Americans
Hats
Quilting
Food habits
Baskets
Folk dance
Clothing and dress
Textile arts
Demonstrations | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Demonstrations at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1991
- Date
- 1991-01
- Description
- Thirty-six color slides. Zora Neale Hurston was an anthropologist and novelist from Eatonville. Each year, the town held a festival to honor and discuss her work and celebrate African American culture. 1-9: Quilter Jimmie Lee Harrell; 10-12: Orlando School of Culture; 13-14: Gloria's Hats; 15-18: Various craft booths; 19-21: Conch and crab fritters; 22-23: Clothes making; 24-32: Clarke's fashions; 33: African baskets; 34-36: Open pit BBQ by George Alexander.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t89-120a | Florida Folk Heritage Award winners at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Awards
Florida. Dept. of State (1987-1995: Smith)
Secretaries of State (State governments)
Singers
Musicians
Fiddlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| flg_blues | Folklife Genre: Blues | Interactive Resource | Blues (Music)
African American singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_genre.png |
Folklife Genre: Blues
- Date
- Description
- The blues has enjoyed a rich and varied tradition in Florida. Folklorists, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax and Stetson Kennedy, documented Florida blues music from the late 1920s through the early 1940s. Blues musicians received widespread attention during the 1960s blues and folk music revival, and in 1978, the North Florida Folklife Project began to document performances.
- Collection
| flp_hurston | Folklife People: Zora Neale Hurston | Interactive Resource | Folklorists, Works Progress Administration, Turpentining, Railroad Work, African American Writers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_people.png |
Folklife People: Zora Neale Hurston
- Date
- Description
- Zora Neale Hurston was an African-American novelist whose rich literary work has inspired generations of readers. Despite her reputation as a writer, there exists another side to Hurston's career. In 1938 and 1939, during the Great Depression, Hurston worked as a folklorist and contributor to the Florida division of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), part of the Works Progress Administration. Through her work with the FWP, Hurston captured stories, songs, traditions and histories from African-Americans in small communities across Florida, whose stories often failed to make it into the histories of that time period.
- Collection
| fls_folklorists | Folklife Subject: Folklorists | Interactive Resource | Folklore | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_subjects.png |
Folklife Subject: Folklorists
- Date
- Description
- Since the Florida Folklife Program began in 1976, many prominent folklorists began their careers in the Sunshine State. Not only did they contribute to Florida's folk studies, but they also honed the skills they would use in other programs and folk areas.
- Collection
| fls_railroad | Folklife Subject: Railroad Work | Interactive Resource | Track Lining, African American Railroad Empltees, Railraod Workers, Locomotive | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_subjects.png |
Folklife Subject: Railroad Work
- Date
- Description
- The arrival of the railroad in Florida marked the beginning of a steady increase in transportation efficiency throughout the state. The labor required to build and operate the railroads, however, was often tedious and difficult. Workers plowed their way through swamps, sandhills, and other challenging terrain, cutting cross-ties and laying them down along with the rails. Over time, railroad labor developed a culture all its own, complete with songs, stories, and traditions.
- Collection
| fls_turpentining | Folklife Subject: Turpentining | Interactive Resource | African American turpentine industry workers, Turpentine industry workers
African American turpentine industry workers, Tree tapping, Pine, Turpentine industry and trade | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_subjects.png |
Folklife Subject: Turpentining
- Date
- Description
- Turpentine is an ingredient found in numerous household products, including paints, cleaners, and medicines. It was also widely used to seal wooden ships, hence the compound’s nickname "naval stores." For many years, the most efficient method for obtaining turpentine was to distill it from the sap of pine trees. By the early 20th century, turpentine production had become a major industry across the southeastern United States, including North Florida. Large companies bought up timberland or the right to use it, and brought in large teams of workers to scrape the faces of the pine trees and channel the sap into cups for collection. The process was labor-intensive, but the companies often paid very little. Most turpentine workers were African-Americans or convicts hired out from local jails. As an increasing number of cases of abuse and mistreatment of workers came to light, the Florida Legislature moved to ban the use of convict labor in private turpentine camps. The industry began to decline, especially after synthetic methods were developed for producing turpentine.
- Collection
| Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French performance for the WPA Federal Writers' Project | Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French performance for the WPA Federal Writers' Project | sound | African Americans
Blues (Music)
Music -- Performance
Field recordings
Guitar music (Blues) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Gabriel Brown & Rochelle French performance for the WPA Federal Writers' Project
- Date
- 1935-06
- Description
- Two reel-to-reel tapes. Brown (guitar, vocals) and French (guitar, vocals) perform blues songs. These recordings were made as part of the first Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Writers' Project (FWP) recording expedition in Florida, conducted by Lomax, Hurston, and Barnicle. These recordings are copies of acetate disks housed in the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, numbered AFS 355 through 361, side A. While the full recording is unedited, some of the track selections have been spliced where skipping or dropouts occurred.
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| FA0514 | Gabriel Brown playing guitar as Rochelle French and Zora Neale Hurston listen- Eatonville, Florida | | Women folklorists
African American men
African American guitarists
Guitar
African American women
African American musicians
Women authors
Ethnicity, African American
Rocking chairs | /fpc/folklife/fa0514.gif |
| F2012124 | George Alexander and his open pit barbecue at Zora Neale Hurston Festival- Eatonville, Florida | | Barbecuing
BBQ
Foodways
Foodways, Black
Ethnicity, African American
Meat cuts
Outdoor cooking
Food industry and trade
Barbecues (Fireplaces)
African American cooks
Ribs (Cooking)
Cooking (Meat)
Art festivals--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Folk festivals--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Folklore revival festivals--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
Festivals--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville
African American men--Florida--Orange County--Eatonville | /fpc/folklife/f2012124.gif |
Listen: The Blues Program
