id: DAT-1010.45

item_title: Tollie Lee

call_number: PRJ-1010

project_title: Sounds of South Georgia

equipment_used: Tascam DAT, Tram lavaliers

informant_name: Tollie Lee

fieldworker: Laurie Sommers

recording_engineer: Laurie Sommers

date: 08-May-05

recording_location: Valdosta, GA (conference room, VSU)

content_summary: Tollie discusses Primitive Baptist tradition in the Crawfordite and Bennettite traditions as background for a planned radio piece on Big Meeting recorded at Rome Primitive Baptist Church in Dixie Union outside Waycross in fall of 2004. Tollie lined hymns and was one of the elders who preached. Tape recording of just over an hour covers earliest memories of Big or Annual Meetings, stories about Big Meeting he was told (preacher and the bull), terminology for Big Meeting, Annual Meeting, Yearly Meeting, descriptions of what goes on in annual meetings (Sat vs. Sunday, time of the year, communion and foot washing, right hand of fellowship), hymn lining, Frank Lee and Elton Dowling as superb liners of the past, how Tollie joined the church, preaching style.

notes: Excerpts appear in Sounds of South George Rome Big Meeting radio program.

technical_summary: good quality, suitable for broadcast. Room sound at end to eliminate AC and fluorescent hum/rumble

genre: religious song, hymns, food, personal experience narrative

places: Ware County, Dixie Union, Rome Primitive Baptist Church, Hoboken, High Bluff, Sardis

people: Tollie Lee, Silas Lee, Frank T. Lee, Elton Downling