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Interview with Bill Smith, March 23, 2000

 File — Bag: \folklife\prj1014\, Folder: 050_smith-bill
Collection number: PRJ1014-050

Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Bill (William Lawrence) Smith, March 23, 2000. Valdosta (Ga.). Fieldworker: Marneth Andagan. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include music and Civil War reenactments.

Notes: Student paper for spring 2000, Laurie Sommers, instructor. Student paper on file. Also a member of the Rebelaires which plays for Civil War re-enactments and Sons of Confederate Veterans events, and the Georgia Volunteer Fife and Drum

Dates

  • March 23, 2000

Conditions Governing Access

Extent

822 Megabytes (1 electronic record(s) and derivatives. 1 audio file (wav, mp3) 661359418 bytes. 00:38:16. 4 PDF documents (8 scans, jp2). 822 MB (862,853,284 bytes).) : Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-26T15:50:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 CAS-1012-24.mp3: 55123283 bytes, checksum: 1cf08ccfcb01ae4f99f4e418a423e19e (MD5) ads-1012-50_redacted.pdf: 10170617 bytes, checksum: 1034499c3bf1f09b5544900df9cd36dd (MD5) tapelog.pdf: 708320 bytes, checksum: 1840a8bb540921305360e965d424abd3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000-03-23

Language

From the Collection: English

Artist Data Sheet

id_number: ADS-1012-50

last_name: Smith

first_name: Bill

middle_name:

nickname:

group_org_name: "Saw Grass, Rebelaires"

Call number: PRJ-1012

address:

artist_city: Valdosta

state: GA

zip: 31602

artist_county: Lowndes

home_phone:

business_phone:

fax:

email:

birthdate: 08-Sep-53

birthplace: Waycross

ethnicity_1: European American

ethnicity_2:

religion: Methodist

genre: "music, fife and drum music, string instruments, guitar"

occupation: "music teacher, musician"

education:

date_of_contact:

contact_made_by: Marneth Andagan

notes: "Student paper for spring 2000, Laurie Sommers, instructor. Student paper on file. Also a member of the Rebelaires which plays for Civil War re-enactments and Sons of Confederate Veterans events, and the Georgia Volunteer Fife and Drum"

keywords: "Revolutionary War, Civil War period music, guitar, fife and drum"

Processing Note

Related ID's: PRJ1014-050, ADS-1012-50, CAS-1012.24, VF-1012.55

No transcript? Can't find VF, but student paper in CAS tape log folder. Tape log in ADS folder. No VF folder in box.

Repository Details

Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Valdosta State University Archives, Odum Library
1500 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta GA 30601 United States
7063728116
229-259-5055 (Fax)