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Audio Recording Interview with Joe T. Fletcher (4 August 1977), Irwin County, Georgia, part 1 (open-reel version)

Conversation with Joe Fletcher, Chula, Georgia, side A

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Joe T. Fletcher (4 August 1977), Irwin County, Georgia, part 1 (open-reel version)

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Recordist)
  • Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector)
  • Fletcher, Joe T.

Created / Published

  • Irwin County, Georgia, August 4, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Part 1 of a 4-part series of recordings of an interview with Joe T. Fletcher, mailing address, Route 1, Box 319 Chula, GA 31733, located east of Chula in Irwin County GA, site 3 on fieldworker Bill Lightfoot's field map of Irwin County (approx. lat-long: 31.570426, -83.428067), biographical note, born and raised in the area, farming on this spot for 42 years, about planting "by the signs," use of the moon and zodiac, underground crops (peanuts, potatoes), plant when sign is "in the feet and legs," corn in new moon, Fletcher's experience is peanuts with big hulls planted at full moon, if planted with sign in feet and legs, peanuts are "tight" in the hull and weigh more, sweet potatoes on February 14, about skeptics, castrate pigs when signs are "down below" in feet and knees, more about timing castration, dog days is a time for more gnats and rabid dogs, hard to cure sores, about weather signs, when toadstools come up, a change of weather is coming, lightning in the north, rain within 48 hours, sundown behind clouds on Wednesday, rain before Sunday, the number of stars within a ring around the moon is the number of days before rain, about predicting the current dry summer, first foggy morning in September you get frost on that day in October, number of sneezes before breakfast means the number of visitors that day, lore about cows and cattle, medicinal plants include jimson weed and mullein, about a farmer that substituted mullein for tobacco to confuse a thief, about turpentine, about sassafras, discussion continues in part 2.
  • -  Parts 1, 2, and 3 in this series were recorded on both open reels (call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 20980, AFS 20981, and AFS 20982) and on audiocassettes (call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21016 and AFS 21017 side A); part 4 is exclusively on audiocassette (call number AFC 1982/010: AFS 21017 side B); the outline presented for part 1 is based on the fieldworker's handwritten notes for the audiocassette copy.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20980
  • MBRS shelflist: RXA 1604
  • Field project identifier: GA7-WL-R1

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:

Fleischhauer, Carl, William E Lightfoot, and Joe T Fletcher. Interview with Joe T. Fletcher 4 August , Irwin County, Georgia, part 1 open-reel version. Irwin County, Georgia, August 4, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20980/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C., Lightfoot, W. E. & Fletcher, J. T. (1977) Interview with Joe T. Fletcher 4 August , Irwin County, Georgia, part 1 open-reel version. Irwin County, Georgia, August 4. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20980/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, William E Lightfoot, and Joe T Fletcher. Interview with Joe T. Fletcher 4 August , Irwin County, Georgia, part 1 open-reel version. Irwin County, Georgia, August 4, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20980/>.