Fieldwork for Every Island Has Its Own Song (Video 1)

Students

Priests

Fieldwork

Sponge fisheries

Diving

Diving Equipment and supplies

Religious rites

Greek Americans

Sponge divers

One video recording. 20 minutes. (Copy can be found on FV-1, S 1615). Includes Greek School blessing (by Father Tryfon Theophilopolus), shots of sponge boats at sponge docks, shots of St. Michaels shrine. Created for the Every Island Has Its Own Song project. The finished product was a documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek bagpipe player, and his family, and the Tarpon Springs Greek community he lived in. A co-production of WEDO-TV and the FFP, it was funded in part by the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. Offenbach narrated. Folklorist Michael researched, wrote and produced, and Yvonne Bryant was assistant producer.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1615

1987-11

video recordings

Moving Image

S1615

V89-14

Every Island Has Its Own Song (Greek Folklife Video Project)

Michael, Nancy

Theophilopolus, Father Tryfon

Greek American

5103

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