id: DAT-1002.14

item_title: Acline Melton interview

call_number: PRJ-1002

project_title: Turpentine

equipment_used: ;

informant_name: Acline Melton

fieldworker: Laurie Kay Sommers

recording_engineer: Laurie Kay Sommers

date: 06-Jan-05

recording_location: Fruitland

content_summary: Two tapes (second quite short) of interview with Acline Melton 'rambling' about his lifetime experience working in the woods, including turpentining. Transcript/summary of interview with Acline Melton, includes consent form and copy of thank you note

notes: Location of interview was Melton home in Fruitland. Contact made via Billy Rowe, grandson, who works at D & A Photo in Valdosta.;

Occupation: worked in woods.

technical_summary: good

genre: personal experience narrative, oral history, naval stores, turpentine, family narratives

places: Dupont/Fruitland, GA;

people: Acline Melton

groups: ;

keywords: American Indians, narratives

id_number: ADS-1002-13

last_name: Melton

first_name: Acline

Call number: PRJ-1002

artist_city: DuPont

state: GA

artist_county: Echols

home_phone:

business_phone:

birthdate: 10/07/19

birthplace: "Thelman, GA Clinch Co."

ethnicity_1: Irish

ethnicity_2: American Indian

genre: "Turpentine, personal experience narrative, occupational folklife, naval stores"

occupation: worked in woods.

date_of_contact: 01/06/05

contact_made_by: Laurie K. Sommers

notes: "Location of interview was Melton home in Fruitland. Contact made via Billy Rowe, grandson, who works at D and A Photo in Valdosta."