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Interview with Stetson Kennedy, June 19, 2006

 File — Bag: \folklife\prj1014\, Folder: 083_kennedy-stetson_NoAudio
Collection number: PRJ1014-083
Portrait of folklorist and author Stetson Kennedy

Transcript: Oral history interview with Stetson Kennedy, June 19, 2006 [PDF]

Artist Data Sheet: Oral history interview with Stetson Kennedy, June 19, 2006 [PDF]

Scope and Contents

No audio file available, includes partial transcript.

Oral history interview with Stetson Kennedy, June 19, 2006. St. Johns County (Fla.). Fieldworker: Laurie Sommers. No audio cassette or file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Partial detailed index of interview with Stetson Kennedy at his home in Florida about the background to his turpentine interviews during the WPA and in the early 1950's for the UN regarding forced labor

Includes link to Stetson Kennedy speech on Florida Folk Life Collection.

Dates

  • June 19, 2006

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Series 8: PRJ-1010 Sounds of South Georgia Box 19 Folder 70: VHS-1010.06 The McIntosh County Shouters may not be copied

Extent

121 Megabytes (1 electronic record(s) and derivatives. 0 audio file(s) (wav, mp3) 0 bytes. 00:00:00. 6 PDF documents (9 scans, jp2). 3 digital photographs. Bag approx. 121 MB (127,888,066 bytes). Includes copy of mp3 audio file from Florida Archives. Includes web archive of stetsonkennedy.com, downloaded 20220624.) : Made available in DSpace on 2022-06-24T13:51:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 cas1002-18_kennedy_transcript_2006.pdf: 5777253 bytes, checksum: b1da0ae65089b3e023b61812fa1a4f7f (MD5) ads-1002-25.pdf: 679585 bytes, checksum: e05d905ab2bce3e80e86caa6c6ce50ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-06-19

Language

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Related Materials

Stetson Kennedy can be found in the State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory - Folklife. See related materials below:

Related Materials

  1. Sacred Harp Sing 3-SGFP Events 2-Stetson Kennedy. Box: 38, dvd: 85 (Moving Images). https://archivesspace.valdosta.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/19408
  2. VF-1002.20 Florida Folklife from the WPA songs and Transcriptions. https://archivesspace.valdosta.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/19059
  3. Newspaper Article: "Stetson Kennedy's musicians' retreat in St. Johns means solitude," The St. Augustine Record, April 27, 2016. https://www.staugustine.com/story/news/local/2016/04/28/stetson-kennedys-musicians-retreat-st-johns-means-solitude/16310587007
  4. All You Old Time Rounders, collected from Fred Lee Fox, 20-year-old, turpentine worker born in GA, at Cross City turpentine camp, 1939, Stetson Kennedy and Robert Cook. File: Turpentine CD Music List.doc
  5. Photograph: Florida Folk Heritage Award recipients sitting in the audience at the award ceremony - Tallahassee, Florida. 1988. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/124080
  6. Photograph: Portrait of folklorist and author Stetson Kennedy. 20th century. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/271876
  7. Saturday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 2). Florida folklife. 2003-05-24. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/241591. File downloaded to bag.
  8. Saturday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 7). Honeymoon in Palatka. 2003-05-24. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/241502

Artist Data Sheet

id_number: ADS-1002-25

last_name: Kennedy

first_name: Stetson

middle_name:

nickname:

group_org_name:

Call number: PRJ-1002

address:

artist_city: Switzerland

state: FL

zip: 32251

artist_county: St. Johns

home_phone:

business_phone:

fax:

email:

birthdate:

birthplace: "Jacksonville, FL"

ethnicity_1: European American

ethnicity_2:

religion:

genre: "occupational folklife, naval stores, turpentining, personal experience narratives"

occupation: folklorist

education: "studies at UF, New College for Social Research, NY"

date_of_contact: 06/19/06

contact_made_by: Laurie K. Sommers

notes: "born 1916, interviewed for turpentine project"

keywords: "WPA,, forced labor"

Newspaper Title:

Page Number:

People In Article: Stetson Kennedy, Zora Neale Hurston

Places In Article: Cross City, FL, Jacksonville, FL, St. Johns County, FL

Subjects in Article: turpentine, naval stores, forced labor

Keywords:

Brief Summary: Partial detailed index of interview with Stetson Kennedy at his home in Florida about the background to his turpentine interviews during the WPA and in the early 1950's for the UN regarding forced labor

Processing Information

PRJ1014-083, ADS-1002-25, VF-1002.75, VF-1002.20, VF-1002.34, VF-1002.35, VF-1002.36, VF-1002.33, CAS-1002.18

1. Multiple VF Files. All but VF-1002.75 are photocopies of articles and fieldwork notes created by Stetson Kennedy. Not Digitized. 2. Listed on `missing-cds.doc` Stetson Kennedy 3. WHERE IS AUDIO FILE(S), see:

From `dvd.doc` Stetson Kennedy Stetson Kennedy. 1 6-19-06.pk Stetson Kennedy. 1 6-19-06.wav Stetson Kennedy. 1 amplified 6-19-06.pk Stetson Kennedy. 1 amplified 6-19-06.wav Stetson Kennedy.2 6-19-06.pk Stetson Kennedy.2 6-19-06.wav Stetson Kennedy.2 amplified 6-19-06.pk Stetson Kennedy.2 amplified 6-19-06.wav

Note: Cannot find audio file. 20220624. Searched through DVD's, CD's, Cassettes, DATS, etc...

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Repository Details

Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

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