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Audio Recording Interview with quilters and basketmakers Willie Lee Miller Lawson and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe, Tifton, Georgia, parts 1 and 2

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Title

  • Interview with quilters and basketmakers Willie Lee Miller Lawson and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe, Tifton, Georgia, parts 1 and 2

Names

  • Robinson, Beverly J. (Collector)
  • Lawson, Willie Lee
  • Sharpe, Inez Arlene Lawson

Created / Published

  • Tifton, Georgia, August 12, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Pine straw
  • -  Quilting
  • -  Baskets
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County -- Tifton

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Side B: part 2 of a 2-part interview with mother and daughter Willie Lee Lawson and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe, Tifton GA: Inez Sharpe comments, "At one time, especially during my mother's time, I think for social activity, they would have quilting parties, and maybe if she had a quilt, maybe more than one, all her friends or neighbors would come in and they would quilt, then maybe the next time it would be at another neighbor's house, and I would say that was the type of social activity that they had, which is something now like the various clubs that they have today, but that was their social life because it was in a rural area"; Sharpe comments, "We made items from pine straw, or if you want to call it 'pine needle,' and there are two types of pine needle, the short leaf or short needle and the long needle or long leaf, and we would always use the long to make hot pads, handbags, coasters, trays, just anything, it would all end up being our own creative designs or patterns"; about some crafts Sharpe makes that she learned in college, where she studies home economics, duration of recording 2 minutes.
  • -  Side A: part 1 of a 2-part interview with mother and daughter Willie Lee Lawson and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe, Tifton GA: Willie Lee Lawson discusses several aspects of quilting, how she taught herself to quilt after she was married; about different patterns for quilts; Lawson shows fieldworker Beverly Robinson how quilting is done; Lawson estimates that it takes her one week to make a quilt; Lawson and Robinson Beverly look at and discuss several of Ms. Lawson's quilts; Robinson photographs Willie Lee Lawson with some of her quilts; Lawson offers some of her own thoughts on subjects other than quilts, as two other voices are heard in the background, one of whom is Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe, Willie Lee Lawson's daughter and a resident of Tifton, various voices comment and joking around while the photographs are being taken; Robinson interviews Inez Sharpe; Sharpe was born in Crosland, Colquitt County, GA, now lives in Tifton; her mother, Willie Lee Lawson, was born in July 1900; Sharpe tells about her mother's work with crafts, not only quilting but also basket weaving; Sharpe comments, "She became disabled in September, 1954, to do something to occupy her mind and time, to keep her from becoming depressed because she had become disabled she started quilting and crocheting. her grandmother, my great-grandmother used to quilt, she would just sit down and create her own design. in fact I would do a lot of sewing and she would always ask me to save the scraps for her, pieces that would be left, I would and she would take them and start cutting them, putting together little blocks and pieces."

Medium

  • audiocassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 21130
  • MBRS shelflist: RYA 0968
  • Field project identifier: GA7-BR-C27

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:

Robinson, Beverly J, Willie Lee Lawson, and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe. Interview with quilters and basketmakers Willie Lee Miller Lawson and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe, Tifton, Georgia, parts 1 and 2. Tifton, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs21130/.

APA citation style:

Robinson, B. J., Lawson, W. L. & Sharpe, I. A. L. (1977) Interview with quilters and basketmakers Willie Lee Miller Lawson and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe, Tifton, Georgia, parts 1 and 2. Tifton, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs21130/.

MLA citation style:

Robinson, Beverly J, Willie Lee Lawson, and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe. Interview with quilters and basketmakers Willie Lee Miller Lawson and Inez Arlene Lawson Sharpe, Tifton, Georgia, parts 1 and 2. Tifton, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_afs21130/>.