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Interview with Jimmy Franklin Johnson, April 12, 2001

 File — Bag: \folklife\prj1014\, Folder: 031_johnson-jimmy-franklin
Collection number: PRJ1014-031
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Jimmy Franklin Johnson March 29, 2001 and April 12, 2001. Hahira (Ga.). Fieldworker: Karrie Kirkland. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include hunting and country music. Includes musical performance of Johnny Cash songs.

Dates: April 12, 2001

Interview with Jo Webb, January 30, 1999

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Collection number: PRJ1014-013
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Jo Smith Webb, January 30, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Recorded in Donalsonville, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. From Gretchen Geisinger's independent study (ENG) "On Solomon's Porch" on culture and social life in her hometown of Jakin, spring 1999. Interviewed in a retirement home where Gretchen's great-grandmother also lived.

Dates: January 30, 1999

Interview with J.W. Miller, March 17, 1999

 File — Bag: \folklife\prj1014\, Folder: 009_miller-jw
Collection number: PRJ1014-009
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with J.W. Miller [Joel Willie Miller], March 17, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.TAPELOGid: CAS-1012.15item_title: "Miller, J.W."call_number: PRJ-1012project_title: Student Projectequipment_used: Wollensakinformant_name: J. W. Miller...
Dates: March 17, 1999

Interview with L.A. "Stick" Nelson, July 10, 2003

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Collection number: PRJ1014-065
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with L.A. "Stick" Nelson, July 10, 2003. Nashville (Ga.). Fieldworker: LeRoy Henderson. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include family history and turpentining.Subjects: Georgia; Oral histories; Sound recordings; African Americans; Turpentine; Naval Stores; Turpentining; Turpentine industry and trade; Nelson, L.A. (1905-2004); Nashville...
Dates: July 10, 2003

Interview with Lucille Dutton, March 5, 1999

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Collection number: PRJ1014-007
Scope and Contents

Interview with Lucille Spooner Dutton, Seminole County, Donalsonville (Ga.), March 5, 1999. Blanch Williams present. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Dates: March 5, 1999

Interview with Mac Tedder, February 13, 1999

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Collection number: PRJ1014-005
Scope and Contents

Interview with Mac Tedder, February 13, 1999. Jakin, Georgia [Early County]. Excerpts from On Solomon’s Porch, an oral history of cultural life in Jakin, Georgia by Gretchen Geisinger, Independent Study, 1999, Laurie Kay Sommers, Instructor.

Dates: February 13, 1999

Interview with Major Phillips, January 25, 2004

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Collection number: PRJ1014-066
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Major Phillips, January 25, 2004. Adrian (Ga.). Fieldworker: Le Roy Henderson. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include Turpentining.


Subjects: Georgia; Oral histories; Sound recordings; Phillips, Major (1945-2010); Turpentine; Turpentine industry and trade; Adrian (Ga.); African Americans;

Dates: January 25, 2004

Interview with Marty F. Broome, November 12, 2000

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Collection number: PRJ1014-051
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marty F. Broome, November 12, 2000. Dasher (Ga.). Dasher Church of Christ. Fieldworker: Billy Ezra. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Note: Song leader for Dasher Church of Christ, has sung in gospel quartets; Church of God has a seven-shape hymnal. Leads choir as Georgia Christian School in Dasher. Interviewed as part of class project for...
Dates: November 12, 2000

Interview with Marvin J. McConnell, November 23, 1999

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Collection number: PRJ1014-038
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Marvin J. McConnell, November 23, 1999. Albany (Ga.). Fieldworker: Peter Young. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include music, bluegrass, fiddles, and the Agrirama.

Dates: November 23, 1999

Interview with Memlon Williams, March 12, 2001

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Collection number: PRJ1014-030
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Memlon Williams, March 12, 2001. TOWN (Ga.). Fieldworker: Terrance Jones. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Discussion with Memlon Williams about his experiences performing gospel music, his influences, whom he has played with, the significance of contemporary Gospel, cultural and regional differences and the direction music is going.

Dates: March 12, 2001

Interview with Mildred J. Harris, April 21, 2003

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Collection number: PRJ1014-002
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Interview with Mildred J. Harris, Cuthbert (Ga.), April 21, 2003. Fieldworker: Kuanita E. Murphy. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Dates: April 21, 2003

Interview with Patricia Wetherington Brockinton, September 4, 2003

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Collection number: PRJ1014-063
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Patricia "Pat" Wetherington Brockinton, September 4, 2003. Fargo (Ga.), Dayton Turpentine Camp site. Fieldworker: Laurie Sommers. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include Turpentine and Turpentine industry and trade.

Dates: September 4, 2003

Interview with Ralph Wilkerson, February 22, 2004

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Collection number: PRJ1014-072
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ralph Wilkerson, February 22, 2004. Waycross (Ga.). Fieldworker: Timothy C. Prizer. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Mr. Wilkerson speaks of his life working in the turpentine woods and stills of south Georgia. He worked from childhood to adulthood in the woods and then worked at the turpentine still in Hoboken, GA until 1982, when he left...
Dates: February 22, 2004

Interview with Rebecca Harvey Carter and Shannon Michelle Sutton, April 1, 1999

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Collection number: PRJ1014-010
Scope and Contents

Interview with Rebecca Harvey and Shannon Michelle Sutton, April 1, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Recorded in Valdosta, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Dates: April 1, 1999

Interview with Robert "Doo" Hickman, April 20, 2001

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Collection number: PRJ1014-034
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Robert "Doo" Hickman, April 20, 2001. Gainesville (Ga.). Fieldworker: Chip Zoller. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include Native American music and traditional instruments.

Dates: April 20, 2001

Interview with Shirley Hodge Hardin, April 1, 1999

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Collection number: PRJ1014-012
Scope and Contents

Interview with Shirley Hodge Hardin, April 1, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Recorded in Valdosta, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Dates: April 1, 1999

Interview with Sidney Morris, March 18, 2004

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Collection number: PRJ1014-054
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Sidney Morris, March 18, 2004. Valdosta (Ga.). Fieldworker: Gregory Barlow. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.The contents are an analysis of Morris’s life as a Jew in Valdosta. The interview focuses on several aspects of Jewish life in the area, predominantly how Southern and Jewish traditions influence each other.Includes VDT...
Dates: March 18, 2004

Interview with the Taylor Brothers, September 12, 1999

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Collection number: PRJ1014-067
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with the Taylor Brothers: Clarence Taylor, CJ Taylor, Willie Taylor and Junior Taylor, September 12, 1999. Blackshear (Ga.). Fieldworker: Laurie Sommers. Audio file digitized from DAT tape(s). Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.Interview with the Taylor Brothers, home of Junior Taylor 9-12-99. Originally taped for the Okefenokee Music Survey, on Junior Taylor’s front porch, various...
Dates: September 12, 1999

Interview with Thelma Singletary, March 5, 1999

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Collection number: PRJ1014-008
Scope and Contents

Interview with Thelma Singletary, March 5, 1999. Donalsonville, Georgia. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Dates: March 5, 1999

Interview with Tracy Jones, April 20, 2001

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Collection number: PRJ1014-028
Scope and Contents From the Series:

PRJ 1014 Online Oral Histories (Electronic Records) includes the digitized audio, artist data sheets, and tapelogs of the South Georgia Folklife Project oral histories. These interviews were originally recorded on cassette or DAT tapes. Many of these were recorded by the students of Laurie Sommers at Valdosta State University, circa 1999-2001.

Dates: April 20, 2001

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Names
Sommers, Laurie Kay, 1955- 8
Prizer, Timothy C. 6
Lee, David Irwin, 1954 2
Lee, Wilbur Clarke, 1956- 2
Taylor, C.J., Rev. (Clifford James), 1930-2011 2
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West, Elliot, 1920-2012 2
Baldwin, Ethel Ruth, 1929- 1
Brockinton, Patricia Wetherington, 1935-2012 1
Broome, Marty F., 1958- 1
Carter, Alton John Baptist, 1917-2008 1
Carter, Era Gillis, 1941-2010 1
Carter, Rebecca Harvey, 1974 1
Dutton, Lucille Spooner, 1916-2007 1
Green, Anthrom L., Jr., 1918-2020 1
Harris, Mildred J., 1925-2020 1
Henderson, LeRoy 1
Hickman, Robert "Doo" 1
Jackson, Troy, Elder, Jr. 1
Johnson, Jimmy Franklin, 1943- 1
Johnson, Wilburt, 1921 1
Jones, Diana Bennett, 1955- 1
Jones, Johnnie B., 1916- 1
Jones, Tracy 1
Lee, Tollie, 1942- 1
Lopez, Willis, 1955- 1
McConnell, Marvin J., 1929-2007 1
McCurlay, Curly Bear 1
Melton, Acline, Sr., 1919-2013 1
Miller, J.W. (Joel Willie), 1914-2004 1
Morgan, James A., Jr., 1954- 1
Morris, Sidney, 1940- 1
Music, George E., Jr., (1960-) 1
Nelson, L.A. "Stick", 1903-2004 1
Phillips, Major, 1945-2010 1
Robinson, Eddie B. 1
Rutland, Henry (Fiddlin' Henry Rutland), 1940- 1
Scipp, Eddie Lee, 1936- 1
Singletary, Thelma King, 1911-2005 1
Smith, Bessie Kincade, 1936-2010 1
Smith, Bill (William Lawrence), 1953- 1
Sumner, Janet Harper, 1955- 1
Sutton, Shannon Michelle, 1971 1
Taylor, Clarence, 1936- 1
Taylor, Junior, 1927-2004 1
Taylor, Willie, 1928- 1
Tomlinson, William Candler (W.C. "Dub" Tomlinson), 1931-2006 1
Vinson, Jack, 1954 1
Webb, Jo Smith, 1908- 1
White, Willie, Jr., 1948-2021 1
Wilcox, Bernice, 1925-2020 1
Wilcox, J.F., Jr. (John Frank), 1921-2014 1
Wilkerson, Ralph, 1949- 1
Williams, Geoi K., 1979- 1
Williams, Merlon 1
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