Audio Recording Interview with Faye Milton, Nashville, Berrien County, Georgia, parts 3 and 4
About this Item
Title
- Interview with Faye Milton, Nashville, Berrien County, Georgia, parts 3 and 4
Names
- Adler, Thomas A. (Collector)
- Milton, Faye
Created / Published
- Berrien County, Georgia, August 16, 1977
Headings
- - Foodways
- - Folklore--Georgia
- - Plants, edible
- - Field recordings
- - Interviews
- - Sound recording
- - United States -- Georgia -- Berrien County
Genre
- Field recordings
- Interviews
- Sound recording
Notes
- - Side A: part 3 of a 6-part interview with Faye Milton in Nashville GA, location shown on Adler's Berrien County fieldwork map at point H (lat-long: 31.160454, -83.287522), Adler is joined by Paula Tadlock, a folklorist from Mississippi, photographs at call numbers AFC 1982/010: GA7-TA-50 and GA7-TA-51 and AFC 1982/010: 1-17611: discussion of foodways continues from part 2, second segment, about sopping biscuits in milk and syrup, types of greens, turnips, collards, mustard, rutabaga, beet tops, sourdock (sour dock, may also be known as curly dock), Miltons do not eat pokeweed, about sassafras and sassafras jelly, "you can make jelly out of water if you use enough Sure-Jell," about how sister Janie Doss cans vegetables while Faye Milton freezes hers, recipe for strawberry figs (chopped figs, strawberry Jello), about fig preserves, pickled peaches, mayhaw (? genus Crataegus), two mayhaw trees grow nearby, Milton made mayhaw jelly one year, her mother made pecan pie, she does not, about elderberry jelly (did not taste right), elderberry wine, dandelion wine, how Milton likes to catch fish but not to eat them, her father used to catch a lot, "we'd eat fish 'til it came out of our ears," fried fish, son Alan (Allen) says that he cooks hamburgers, eggs, pancakes, daughter Virginia does some cooking, working on cornbread, Faye Milton tells how "when we were small, my mother was working, and we were going to school, before we left (one day) she said, you fix supper and have the dishes washed when I come back, so since I did not like to wash dishes, I fixed supper and we all ate out of the same plate," about her grandmother and food for church events, dinner-on-the-grounds as a competitive event for women, included chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, potato salad, pecan pie, all of these are "Sunday dinner dishes," pork chops, fried without batter, sausage, during the week far less meat, cornbread goes with greens, about black-eyed peas with ham hock, New Year's Day was black-eyed peas, rice, and ham, no turkey for Christmas but a baked hen, dressing, giblet gravy, always fruitcake, Thanksgiving similar menu including turkey, and pies and cakes, Christmas always celebrated at home, grandmother's cooking, "she'd let me watch, not help," paternal grandmother had a kitchen safe with dishes and one shelf allotted for leftovers, about safes (fieldworker photographed one in the Milton barn), similar to grandmother's, had to ask permission to open the safe, used to store silverware too, discussion of foodways continues in part 4.
- - Side B: part 4 of a 6-part interview with Faye Milton, Berrien County GA, fieldworker Tom Adler is joined by Paula Tadlock, a folklorist from Mississippi, discussion of foodways continues from part 3, about pie safes, in the kitchen but out of the way, Milton's grandmother put food on the middle shelf so children could reach it, leftover meat was rare, grandmother calculated portions, storage of meat, Milton does not recall storage method but says that, for chicken, the boys in the family would kill, gut, and pluck chickens the same day, how to wring a chicken's neck, Milton does not eat wild mushrooms, worries about toxins, African Americans and whites ate more or less the same foods, blacks ate more possums than whites, about chitlins, eaten by both races, how Milton's husband hunts, if he kills a possum, there is a black family to whom he gives it, both races eat raccoons, about homemade ice cream (rare), eating watermelon at night, comments on family oral history; this house, "150 to 200 years old," Milton would like to "re-do" it, the group leaves the house and walks looking for wild plants, Paula Tadlock carries tape recorder, finding lambsquarters (? genus Chenopodium), fieldworker photographs pie safes in the barn, discussion of the farm buildings, Alan (Allen) shows a shed his father built for trash, comment about a red insect called "cow killer" (probably the eastern velvet ant, Dasymutilla occidentalis), trees in yard include oak, walnut, and pecan, photography of beggar's lice (may be tick trefoil, Desmodium spp.), about peppergreens (peppergrass, may be Lepidium virginicum), Virginia creeper, children eat wild cherries, wild grapes, about a couple in Nashville GA who know medicinal plants; Faye Milton born and raised in Ashburn GA, moved to Adel at age 13, about sourdock or yellow dock (or sour dock, may also be known as curly dock), discussion of house, fireplace in every room, now all but one are boarded up; the wood is of the type known as or containing "lighter knots" (fatwood, may be longleaf pine), Faye Milton tells about a hill in Lowndes County GA where your car will run uphill, Alan (Allen) tells about haunted house in Lakeland, some additional discussion of haunting in part 5.
Medium
- audiocassette
Call Number/Physical Location
- Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20931
- MBRS shelflist: RYA 0889
- Field project identifier: GA7-TA-C29
Source Collection
- South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
Digital Id
Online Format
- audio