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Oral history interview with Jimmy Franklin Johnson March 29, 2001 and April 12, 2001. Hahira (Ga.). Fieldworker: Karrie Kirkland. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include hunting and country music. Includes musical performance of Johnny Cash songs.

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Oral history interview with Jo Smith Webb, January 30, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Recorded in Donalsonville, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. From Gretchen Geisinger's independent study (ENG) "On Solomon's Porch" on culture and social life in her hometown of Jakin, spring 1999. Interviewed in a retirement home where Gretchen's great-grandmother also lived.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with J.W. Miller [Joel Willie Miller], March 17, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.TAPELOGid: CAS-1012.15item_title: "Miller, J.W."call_number: PRJ-1012project_title: Student Projectequipment_used: Wollensakinformant_name: J. W. Miller...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Kenny Arlyn "Lance" Roberts, November 10, 1999. Norman Park (Ga.). Fieldworker: Payne Roberts (Daughter of Kenny). Audio file from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include Country and Rock Music. Includes 2 original songs, "You've Got Everything (1959)" and "The Man in the Moon Showed Up." Includes biographical essay "Kenny Roberts and the Country Pop Style," by Payne...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with L.A. "Stick" Nelson, July 10, 2003. Nashville (Ga.). Fieldworker: LeRoy Henderson. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include family history and turpentining.Subjects: Georgia; Oral histories; Sound recordings; African Americans; Turpentine; Naval Stores; Turpentining; Turpentine industry and trade; Nelson, L.A. (1905-2004); Nashville...

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Interview with Lucille Spooner Dutton, Seminole County, Donalsonville (Ga.), March 5, 1999. Blanch Williams present. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

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Interview with Mac Tedder, February 13, 1999. Jakin, Georgia [Early County]. Excerpts from On Solomon’s Porch, an oral history of cultural life in Jakin, Georgia by Gretchen Geisinger, Independent Study, 1999, Laurie Kay Sommers, Instructor.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marty F. Broome, November 12, 2000. Dasher (Ga.). Dasher Church of Christ. Fieldworker: Billy Ezra. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Note: Song leader for Dasher Church of Christ, has sung in gospel quartets; Church of God has a seven-shape hymnal. Leads choir as Georgia Christian School in Dasher. Interviewed as part of class project for...

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Oral history interview with Marvin J. McConnell, November 23, 1999. Albany (Ga.). Fieldworker: Peter Young. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include music, bluegrass, fiddles, and the Agrirama.

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Oral history interview with Memlon Williams, March 12, 2001. TOWN (Ga.). Fieldworker: Terrance Jones. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Discussion with Memlon Williams about his experiences performing gospel music, his influences, whom he has played with, the significance of contemporary Gospel, cultural and regional differences and the direction music is going.

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Interview with Mildred J. Harris, Cuthbert (Ga.), April 21, 2003. Fieldworker: Kuanita E. Murphy. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

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Oral history interview with Patricia "Pat" Wetherington Brockinton, September 4, 2003. Fargo (Ga.), Dayton Turpentine Camp site. Fieldworker: Laurie Sommers. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include Turpentine and Turpentine industry and trade.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ralph Wilkerson, February 22, 2004. Waycross (Ga.). Fieldworker: Timothy C. Prizer. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Mr. Wilkerson speaks of his life working in the turpentine woods and stills of south Georgia. He worked from childhood to adulthood in the woods and then worked at the turpentine still in Hoboken, GA until 1982, when he left...

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Interview with Rebecca Harvey and Shannon Michelle Sutton, April 1, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Recorded in Valdosta, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

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Oral history interview with Robert "Doo" Hickman, April 20, 2001. Gainesville (Ga.). Fieldworker: Chip Zoller. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include Native American music and traditional instruments.

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Interview with Shirley Hodge Hardin, April 1, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Recorded in Valdosta, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Sidney Morris, March 18, 2004. Valdosta (Ga.). Fieldworker: Gregory Barlow. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.The contents are an analysis of Morris’s life as a Jew in Valdosta. The interview focuses on several aspects of Jewish life in the area, predominantly how Southern and Jewish traditions influence each other.Includes VDT...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with the Taylor Brothers: Clarence Taylor, CJ Taylor, Willie Taylor and Junior Taylor, September 12, 1999. Blackshear (Ga.). Fieldworker: Laurie Sommers. Audio file digitized from DAT tape(s). Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.Interview with the Taylor Brothers, home of Junior Taylor 9-12-99. Originally taped for the Okefenokee Music Survey, on Junior Taylor’s front porch, various...

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Interview with Thelma Singletary, March 5, 1999. Donalsonville, Georgia. From the South Georgia Folklife Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.

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PRJ 1014 Online Oral Histories (Electronic Records) includes the digitized audio, artist data sheets, and tapelogs of the South Georgia Folklife Project oral histories. These interviews were originally recorded on cassette or DAT tapes. Many of these were recorded by the students of Laurie Sommers at Valdosta State University, circa 1999-2001.