id: DAT-1002.01

item_title: Alton Carter and Elliott West Interview

call_number: PRJ-1002

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fieldworker: Laurie Kay Sommers

recording_engineer: Laurie Kay Sommers

date: 02/01/98

recording_location: Folkston

content_summary: "Interview with Alton Carter, boss, and Elliott West, his worker for many years, on West's front porch. The two reminisce about the turpentine industry, work, the camp quarters, entertainment, the demise of the industry."

notes: Excerpts from this interview included in Wiregrass Ways turpentine radio program.

technical_summary: "Good, but ambient sounds include cars going by on nearby road, etc."

genre: "personal experience narrative, occupational folklife, naval stores, turpentine, food, natural medicine"

places: "Waynesville, Baxley, Brantley County"

people: "Elliott West, Alton Carter, Harley Landale"

id: DAT-1002.02

item_title: Carter and West in the Woods

call_number: PRJ-1002

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informant_name: Eddie B. Robinson, Alton Carter, Elliott West

fieldworker: Laurie Kay Sommers

recording_engineer: Laurie Kay Sommers

date: 04/18/98

recording_location: Ware County

content_summary: Recording of the three turpentine men, boss Carter and workers Robinson and West, in the woods outside the entrance to Okefenokee Swamp Park south of Waycross, getting sound for a radio program, and recording their comments about work in the woods and the difficulties turpentiners faced in the twilight of the industry. This was not actual work, but West in his work clothes and with his hack chipping on old faces so I could get sounds for the radio program that was eventually included in Wiregrass Ways.

notes: material from this tape included in Wiregrass Ways Turpentine radio program.

technical_summary: Good--includes actual sounds of working in the woods.

genre: occupational folklife, personal experience narratives, naval stores, turpentine

places: Ware County, Waycross

people: Alton Carter, Elliott West, Eddie B. Robinson

groups: African American, European American

keywords: chipper, hack, cup, tools

id_number: ADS-1007-01

last_name: Carter

first_name: Alton

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Call number: PRJ-1007

address: "Rt. 3, Box 795"

artist_city: Folkston

state: GA

zip: 31537

artist_county: Charlton

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birthdate: 07/11/17

birthplace: Racepond

ethnicity_1: English

ethnicity_2:

religion: Baptist

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

occupation: "turpentine, sawmill, farmer, timber bus., army,"

education:

date_of_contact: 02/01/98

contact_made_by: Laurie K. Sommers

id_number: ADS-1002-16

last_name: West

first_name: Elliott

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Call number: PRJ-1002

address: N. Okefenokee Parkway

artist_city: Folkston

state: GA

zip: 31537

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birthdate: 08/27/20

birthplace: "Darien, GA McIntosh Co."

ethnicity_1: African American

ethnicity_2:

religion: Christianity

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

occupation: "Retired, works lawn care on occasion"

education:

date_of_contact: 07/15/03

contact_made_by: Timoty C. Prizer

Note: Artist Datasheet from 2003 interview.