Interview with Lloyd Earl McMullian, Sr.

Turpentiners

Farmer

Fieldwork

Interviews

Local history

Oral histories

Life histories

Personal experience narratives

Turpentine industry and trade

Turpentining

Agriculture

Farm life

Family farming

Great Depression

Tractors

Mules

Two audio cassettes. C83-102: Macmillan discussed how Two Egg, Florida, and Paramour, Florida, were named; his birth in Grand Ridge, Florida, in 1910; his and his father's work in turpentining; getting into the farming business after the turpentining industry's decline; farming with mules and, later, with tractors in the 1930s; raising peanuts, soy beans, and corn; his son's work in cattle farming; blacksmithing; canning and preserving food; and magic and omens in farming. He also tell stories about voting Republican due to promises of racial equality and talks about "Hoover Days" and the Depression; old farming sayings and practices; and making moonshine from cane skimmings. C83-103: McMullian discusses visiting the Florida Folk Festival; collecting antique engines as a hobby; the turpentining process; tally calls and tally boards; "raking" trees; enjoying his work in the turpentine industry; bank loans; and trains and business transportation. In addition, he tells a story about the first toilet he ever saw and talks about losing crops in droughts and from nematodes; his father's employment in a large farm; fiddle and piano music and dances; Sacred Harp music; African-Americans; square dancing and clogging; serenades, housewarmings, and quilting parties; and farming in cold weather.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1576

1983-04-16

Florida Folklife Program

sound recordings

audiocassettes

Sound

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S1576

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C83-102

C83-103

Library Folklife Program

Dyen, Doris J.

McMullian, Lloyd Earl

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