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Photo, Print, Drawing Johnny Stokes and grunt worm fish bait, Fitzgerald, Georgia; "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin and furnishings, Wilcox County, Georgia

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About this Item

Title

  • Johnny Stokes and grunt worm fish bait, Fitzgerald, Georgia; "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin and furnishings, Wilcox County, Georgia

Names

  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Fitzgerald, Georgia; Wilcox County, Georgia, August 3, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Furniture
  • -  Mushrooms
  • -  Baitworms
  • -  Log buildings
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Wilcox County
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Ben Hill County -- Fitzgerald

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: at the Georgia state fish hatchery, in Wilcox County GA, just north of Bowen's Mill (Ben Hill County): 01, a fairy ring of mushrooms or toadstools; in or near Fitzgerald GA, with Johnny Stokes, grunting worms for fishing: 02-05, Johnny Stokes grunting worms (rubbing brick on top of staub); 06, the worms as collected; 07-14, his son Greg, and Bobby Roberts (yellow cap) picking up worms, and grunting for more; at Guy Fuller's cabin, Wilcox County GA, not far east of Bowens Mill (Ben Hill County): 15, Uncle Guy Fuller at his cabin; 16-19,stool and ladderback chair with woven twisted (corn shuck) seats (?) from the cabin, taken outside to be photographed.
  • -  From page 88 in fieldworker David Stanley's fieldnotes at call number AFC 1982/010: Box 5, Folder 44a: [Johnny] Stokes took me out to show me how to grunt worms-you use a staub [stake] with a brick, drive the staub in the ground, rub the brick back and forth to make the staub vibrate, worms come out of the ground. It works; Stokes, his son [Greg], and [Bobby Roberts] must have got 100 worms from three different areas-some of the worms came out of the ground a good ten feet from where the staub was-Stokes sang softly to himself, glancing up at his son, a song that he later said shyly was a song he's learned from his father who sang it as a gandy-dancer on the railroad. Good stuff. He gave his son gentle instruction in the art of grunting--see photos. This particular staub had a good, deep sound-told the son to save it and the brick. The small hills left behind by the earthworms are called "doodlehills."

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-DS-17

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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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:

Stanley, David. Johnny Stokes and grunt worm fish bait, Fitzgerald, Georgia; "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin and furnishings, Wilcox County, Georgia. Wilcox County Fitzgerald Georgia United States Ben Hill County, 1977. Fitzgerald, Georgia; Wilcox County, Georgia, August 3. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_017/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D. (1977) Johnny Stokes and grunt worm fish bait, Fitzgerald, Georgia; "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin and furnishings, Wilcox County, Georgia. Wilcox County Fitzgerald Georgia United States Ben Hill County, 1977. Fitzgerald, Georgia; Wilcox County, Georgia, August 3. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_017/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David. Johnny Stokes and grunt worm fish bait, Fitzgerald, Georgia; "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin and furnishings, Wilcox County, Georgia. Fitzgerald, Georgia; Wilcox County, Georgia, August 3. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_017/>.