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Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie playing the dulcimer.

Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie playing the dulcimer.
Date
1900 (circa)
Collection
Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie playing the dulcimer.

Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie playing the dulcimer.
Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie.

Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie.
Date
1900 (circa)
Collection
Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie.

Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie.
Folklife adviser Dr. Edward Kirkland

Folklife adviser Dr. Edward Kirkland
Date
1950
Description
Three black and white prints. A Univerity of Florida (UF) professor, Kirkland often worked with the Florida Folk Festival, often showcasing the talents of UF exchange students. Two images are with UF students Douglas Querlloo and Marjorie Hendricks.
Collection
Folklife adviser Dr. Edward Kirkland

Folklife adviser Dr. Edward Kirkland
Folklife Genre: Blues

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.
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Folklife Genre: Blues

Folklife Genre: Blues
Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in Tallahassee

Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in Tallahassee
Date
1988
Description
Twenty-five color slides. Based on recommendations from the Florida Folklife Council, the Secretary of State confers Florida Folk Heritage Awards annually. The awards are given to outstanding folk artists and folk culture advocates who have made long-standing contributions to the folk cultural resources of the state. Established in 1985, the program parallels the National Heritage Fellowships. In 1988, Secretary of State Smith presented awards to Stetson Kennedy, Alton Morris, Flora Mae Hunter, and Tom Gaskins. Many of the people in these slides are unidentified.
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Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in Tallahassee

Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in Tallahassee
Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in Tallahassee

Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in Tallahassee
Date
1988
Description
Two proof sheets with 39 black and white images (plus negatives). Based on recommendations from the Florida Folklife Council, the Secretary of State confers Florida Folk Heritage Awards annually. The awards are given to outstanding folk artists and folk culture advocates who have made long-standing contributions to the folk cultural resources of the state. Established in 1985, the program parallels the National Heritage Fellowships. In 1988, Secretary of State Smith presented awards to Stetson Kennedy, Alton Morris, Flora Mae Hunter, and Tom Gaskins. Many of the people in these slides are unidentified
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Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in Tallahassee

Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in Tallahassee
Folklife People: Thelma Boltin

Folklife People: Thelma Boltin
Date
Description
Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, Thelma Boltin moved with her family to Gainesville in 1907. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Emerson College in Boston, where she studied English, drama and speech, with a particular interest in folklore. Her background won her the position of Program Director for the Stephen Foster Center in White Springs, for which she directed the Florida Folk Festival from 1954 to 1965. At the festival, she was a fixture in her sun bonnet and pioneer dress, often telling stories of early Florida life. Boltin traveled throughout the state searching for talent and presenting folk traditions through her program called "Florida Lore in Song and Story" to hundreds of school children and civic organizations. She also helped found the Heart of Florida Folk Festival in Dade City. Over the years she became affectionately known as Cousin Thelma to the thousands of people who attended the Florida Folk Festival from 1955 to 1986. Boltin received the Florida Folk Heritage Award in 1985.
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Folklife People: Thelma Boltin

Folklife People: Thelma Boltin
Folklife People: Zora Neale Hurston

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.
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Folklife People: Zora Neale Hurston

Folklife People: Zora Neale Hurston
Folklife People: Richard Williams

Folklife People: Richard Williams
Date
Description
Richard Williams was born in 1887 in Jonesville, Florida, about 12 miles west of Gainesville. By his early teens, Williams was playing dance music on the guitar for local parties held on neighboring farms in Alachua County and in area phosphate camps. It was in these camps that he learned songs from other parts of the state. His repertoire included localized folk blues, gospel songs and personalized versions of popular songs he picked up from work-camp jukeboxes.
Williams's family members, including wife Lillie Bell and daughter Ella Mae Wilson, often accompanied him during informal musical gatherings at their house. Folklorists Peggy Bulger, Dwight DeVane and Brenda McCallum recorded a few of these gatherings between 1977 and 1980, yielding music that was eventually featured on a collection of traditional African-American music from around the state called Drop on Down in Florida. These field recordings capture Williams' rural blues style, featuring finger-picking, alternating bass and free-floating semi-improvised song structures - all vestiges of Florida's pre-blues folk forms.
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Folklife People: Richard Williams

Folklife People: Richard Williams
Folklife Subject: Folklorists

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.
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Folklife Subject: Folklorists

Folklife Subject: Folklorists
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
FA4040Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie playing the dulcimer.Musical instruments
Arts (Performing)
Musical traditions
Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Dulcimer
Women folklorists
Folklorists
Music--Performance
Folk music
Folk songs
Singing
Women folk musicians
Women musicians
Musicians
Entertainers
Performing arts
Folk singers		/fpc/folklife/fa4040.gif
FA4039Folk musician and folklorist Jean Ritchie.Musical instruments
Dulcimer
Women folklorists
Folklorists
Folk singers
Folk musicians
Women musicians
Musicians
Portraits
Entertainers		/fpc/folklife/fa4039.gif
Folklife adviser Dr. Edward KirklandFolklife adviser Dr. Edward KirklandStill ImageFolklorists
Folk festivals		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
flg_bluesFolklife Genre: BluesInteractive ResourceBlues (Music)
African American singers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_genre.png
Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in TallahasseeFolklife Heritage Awards ceremony in TallahasseeStill ImageAwards
Folklife
Secretaries of State (State governments)
Florida. Dept. of State (1987-1995: Smith)
Public speaking
Orators
Secretary of State
Public officer
Folklorists		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Folklife Heritage Awards ceremony in TallahasseeFolklife Heritage Awards ceremony in TallahasseeStill ImageAwards
Folklife
Secretaries of State (State governments)
Florida. Dept. of State (1987-1995: Smith)
Public officers
Public officials
Orators
Public speaking
Secretary of State
Public officer
Folklorists		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
flp_boltinFolklife People: Thelma BoltinInteractive ResourceFolklorists/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_people.png
flp_hurstonFolklife People: Zora Neale HurstonInteractive ResourceFolklorists, Works Progress Administration, Turpentining, Railroad Work, African American Writers/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_people.png
flp_williams_richardFolklife People: Richard WilliamsInteractive ResourceAfrican Americans
Blues (Music)
Gospel music
Music -- Performance
Rural blues		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_people.png
fls_folkloristsFolklife Subject: FolkloristsInteractive ResourceFolklore/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_subjects.png