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Audio Recording Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Tift County, Georgia; Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, interview (14 July 1977)

About this Item

Title

  • Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Tift County, Georgia; Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, interview (14 July 1977)

Names

  • Adler, Thomas A. (Collector)
  • Doss, Janie

Created / Published

  • Tift County, Georgia, July 14, 1977

Headings

  • -  Foodways
  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Domestic life
  • -  Art
  • -  Field notes
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Side A: Initial portion (about 10 minutes duration) is recording of the fieldworker's spoken notes (with odometer readings), made while driving in Tift County GA: start at intersection of I-75 and Union Road (then designated road S 1979), comments on house types (saddlebag example); Pine View Church; bungalow house, location identified on fieldworker Thomas Adler's field map of Tift County as site E (lat-long: 31.362128, -83.507363), measured drawings in Adler's fieldnotes ( call number AFC 1982/010: Box 4, Folder 40, page 15, digital image sequence 18), photographs at call number AFC 1982/010: GA7-TA-3; travel passes intersection of Eldorado and Union Roads; double shotgun house; intersection Omega and Union Roads; mention of map and site E; about a Mrs. West (?), renter from Bruce Rutledge, dog trot with breezeway covered by siding, also tobacco barn, location identified on fieldworker Thomas Adler's field map of Tift County as site F (lat-long: 31.345648, -83.500592); continues travel, passes lake to the east; saddlebag house, location identified on fieldworker Thomas Adler's field map of Tift County as site G (lat-long: 31.331074, -83.497542), photographs at call numbers AFC 1982/010: GA7-TA-3 and GA7-TA-4; travel reached county line, fieldworker turns around, passes I-75, U.S. highway 41, county road 185; complex of buildings including tobacco barns, Martha Spencer, owned by attorney Richard "Dick" Buckley, location identified on fieldworker Thomas Adler's field map of Tift County as site K (lat-long: 31.337842, -83.481391), photographs at call numbers AFC 1982/010: GA7-TA-5; passes Rutledge house; in Eldorado, ceramic store; intersection of U.S. highway 41 and county road 85; Church of God; Knott's and Hogarty's Groceries; churches and house with pyramidal-form roof; log house with tobacco barn owned by W.T. Hawes, rented by Mr. Wood; second portion of side A (about 20 minutes duration) is part 1 of a 2-part interview-conversation with Janie Doss and Pattie Bailey at the home of Janie and Keith Doss, Rt. 2 Box 280B, Tifton, GA, location identified on fieldworker Thomas Adler's field map of Tift County GA as site H (lat-long: 31.380925, -83.489494): introductory comments, about the folklife project, fieldworker refers to Agrirama, local legends, Pattie Bailey says her former husband, W.R. Bailey, knew about Long Bridge Legend; Janie Doss sings "I'm a Little TNT," Doss's children Mark and Tracy are present (reference to infant Lisa); about foodways and cooking, eggplant stew (substitutes for oyster stew), divinity frosting, hamburgers, English pea salad, green beans boiled, parched, fried, peanuts; Bailey departs, discuss future meetings; mention tornados; Doss mentions sister in Nashville GA, high ceiling houses.
  • -  Side B: part 2 of a 2-part interview-conversation with Janie Doss at the home of Janie and Keith Doss, Tifton, GA: additional comments about Doss's sister in Nashville GA, about heating with wood; about canning and preserving, bread-and-butter pickles, dill pickes, apple jelly, plum jelly, blackberry jelly, pole beans, tomatoes; talk about canning; about Janie's art, drawings, paintings, sculpture; son Mark's boys club; fieldworker photographs art works out of doors, this day's photographs at call number AFC 1982/010: GA7-TA-6; discussion of art and Janie's acquisition of skills; about children's "clubs"; about encountering snakes; folk remedies for warts, rocks in silk handkerchief left in crossroads, poke pin into wart and throw over shoulder; daughter Tracy mentions ancestors living in old log house and barn; about spiders, black widows and Granddaddy Longlegs; about junebug airplanes; about amusements for children, bicycles, mud tunnels near house, trail in the woods; group goes back inside house, discussion of pie safes, quilting, e.g., her mother-in-law Zema Doss's butterfly pattern quilt; daughter Lisa and 10-year-old dress; about a recipe club "like a chain letter"; recipe for mayonnaise biscuits; about getting folklife information from Zema Doss and Janie's husband Keith, farmer who "works dawn to dark" but could be found at home on Saturday "after dinner"; about a young neighbor boy who can drive cars, tractors, other vehicles.

Medium

  • audiocassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20904
  • MBRS shelflist: RYA 0862
  • Field project identifier: GA7-TA-C2

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Adler, Thomas A, and Janie Doss. Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Tift County, Georgia; Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, interview 14 July. Tift County, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20904/.

APA citation style:

Adler, T. A. & Doss, J. (1977) Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Tift County, Georgia; Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, interview 14 July. Tift County, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20904/.

MLA citation style:

Adler, Thomas A, and Janie Doss. Fieldworker's spoken notes while driving, Tift County, Georgia; Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, interview 14 July. Tift County, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs20904/>.