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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Date: 2000-05-26
Description: One audio cassette tape. NOTE -- part of the tape is inaudible. Stone served as emcee. The Roddenberry Family (Mrs. Bernice Roddenberry and daughters: Betty Owens, Doris Lloyd, Katherine Lett, Debbie Todd, Judy Drury, Latrelle McDowell and Sheila Carter) of Folkston, GA, discusses palmetto broom- making, shape note singing (Sacred Harp) and gallberry brooms. Ethel McDonald discusses the making of mayhaw jelly.
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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)

Date: 2000-05-26
Description: One audio cassette tape. Tozzer served as emcee. Joseph Kilgore and Darren Watts discuss net making and whip making. Kilgore discusses his childhood and how he learned to make nets and whips as well as time he spent as a yacht captain and first mate. Later in the tape, he discusses his method of net and whip making. Darren Watts describes how he met Kilgore and began making nets and whips. The Roddenberry family (Mrs. Bernice Rodenberry and daughters: Betty Owens, Doris Lloyd, Katherine Lett, Debbie Todd, Judy Drury, Latrelle McDowell and Sheila Carter) performs songs including "Down by the River", an unnamed Sacred Harp (shape note) song and "Amazing Grace". They discuss how they learned to sing and also the making of palmetto brooms.
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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Date: 2000-05-26
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT). Bucuvalas served as the emcee. Banks and Demps demonstrated hymn lining. Yao and Edge played the zheng, the Chinese zither. They were all participants in the Folklife Apprenticeship Program. The Roddenberry Family sang sacred harp (shape note) songs.
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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Date: 1979
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Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Date: 1979
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Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girls heading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Date: 1979
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Girls heading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Date: 1979
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Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Date: 1979
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Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls singing from Sacred Harp book before congregation at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Date: 1979
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Girls singing from Sacred Harp book before congregation at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Interview with Fred Williams

Date: 1983-04-16
Description: Two audio cassettes. C83-104: Williams, born in Sneads, Florida, in 1923, discusses being raised in a rural farming family in Jackson County, Florida; joining the Army and using his disabled veterans' pension to start his own farm; the character of his family; life during the "Hoover Days" of the Depression; the Wesleyan Church creating a sense of civic community; farming under President Roosevelt's government policies; serving in the military and being injured in Europe during World War Two; being disabled; family sayings; and sacred harp singing in northern Alabama. In addition, he also talks about hog killing, smoking meat, mule plowing and other routines on the farm. C83-105: Williams talks about making homemade brooms; giving homemade brooms and bonnets to the elderly; the proliferation of modern technology; physical and mental challenges involved in farming; attending church revivals and going fishing in the summertime; training mules; and serenadings, weddings, and cane grindings. In addition, he remarks upon black quartet singing, his marriage, his political career and political outlook, and his religious views, including his outlook on the bible, Israel, and his favorable regard for Jews.
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Interview with Fred Williams

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a_s1576_82_c00-063	Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)	Sound	Singers Musicians Guitarist Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Shape note singing Domestic arts Broom making Brooms Cookery (Jelly) Food preparation Mayhaws	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_83_c00-069	Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)	Sound	Net maker Singers Shape note singers Broom makers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Net makers Netmaking Fishing nets Broom making Shape note singing Singing	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_84_d00-030	Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing A capella singers A capella singing Zheng Zither music Apprentices Music, Hawaii African Americans Hymns Gospel (Black) Gospel songs Religious songs Musical tradition, sacred Shape note singing Arts, Chinese Chinese Americans Hymn lining Singers Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
FS79146B	Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida		Shape note singing Arts (Performing)--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora Sacred music Singing--Religious aspects Girls--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora 4-Shaped-Note singing	/fpc/folklife/fs79146b.gif
FS79147B	Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida		Shape note singing Arts (Performing)--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora Sacred music Singing--Religious aspects Girls--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora 4-Shaped-Note singing	/fpc/folklife/fs79147b.gif
FS79187B	Girls heading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church		Shape note singing Arts (Performing)--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora Sacred music Singing--Religious aspects Girls--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora 4-Shaped-Note singing	/fpc/folklife/fs79187b.gif
FS79188B	Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church		Music--Performance Singing--Religious aspects Shape note singing Arts (Performing)--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora Sacred music Girls--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora 4-Shaped-Note singing	/fpc/folklife/fs79188b.gif
FS79182B	Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church		Shape note singing Arts (Performing)--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora Sacred music Singing--Religious aspects Girls--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora 4-Shaped-Note singing	/fpc/folklife/fs79182b.gif
FS79201B	Girls singing from Sacred Harp book before congregation at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church		Music--Performance Singing--Religious aspects Shape note singing Arts (Performing)--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora Sacred music Girls--Florida--Polk County--Old Chicora 4-Shaped-Note singing	/fpc/folklife/fs79201b.gif
a_s1576_10_c83-104	Interview with Fred Williams	Sound	Fieldwork Interviews Local history Oral histories Life histories Personal experience narratives Turpentine industry and trade Turpentining Agriculture Farm life Family farming Great Depression New Deal, 1933-1939 Musical tradition, sacred Shape note singing World War, 1939-1945 Broom making Farmer Broom makers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girls heading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls heading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls singing from Sacred Harp book before congregation at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls singing from Sacred Harp book before congregation at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Interview with Fred Williams

Interview with Fred Williams

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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girl singing from the Sacred Harp book at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church - Old Chicora, Florida

Girls heading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls heading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls leading congregation in Sacred Harp singing at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls singing from Sacred Harp book before congregation at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Girls singing from Sacred Harp book before congregation at the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church

Interview with Fred Williams

Interview with Fred Williams