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Audio Recording Interviews, Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, part 3, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Deariso

Interview with Lizzie J. Deariso, Sylvester, Georgia, side A

About this Item

Title

  • Interviews, Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, part 3, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Deariso

Names

  • Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector)
  • Deariso, Lizzie J.

Created / Published

  • Sylvester, Georgia, July 28, 1977

Headings

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

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Part 3 of a 5-part series of interviews in and around Sylvester, Worth County GA, continuation of a conversation with Elizabeth Jane "Lizzie" Deariso (1897-1988), 807 Livingston Street, Sylvester GA 31791: Deariso talks her past, about chitterlings, says breakfast might include ham, sidemeat, fish, fried chicken, fried steak, milk and butter, grits, cornbread and biscuits, and eggs but not cereal, she would prepare lunch for her brothers, cornbread or biscuits or light bread sandwiches, baked sweet potato, how her girlfriend would sing a disgusting song in order to get Lizzie’s steak sandwich, about an African American servant who sang hymns as she worked, about Lizzie’s father playing the fiddle, tunes included "Hang Up the Fiddle and the Bow," "Old Black Joe," Old Kentucky Home," "Sewanee River," music included beating straws on fiddle, at the Baptist church, had parties, how after saying grace at table, her father said "huh" instead of Amen, fieldworker asks about cures, turpentine for nail wounds, or hold the wound over a fire made with woolen rags, castor oil and turpentine for colds, sassafras tea as spring tonic, "mama used to put turpentine on us, that was the big remedy," father made flutter mills out of corn stalks (wheel-like form that turns in stream of water?), recalls story told be father of Robin Hood-like man in Worth County, caught and killed, someone asked what to do with his son, reply was "where there’s lice, there are nits," and the son was also killed, then after a time all of the killers died tragic deaths.

Medium

  • audiocassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 21009
  • MBRS shelflist: RYA 0909
  • Field project identifier: GA7-WL-C16

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:

Lightfoot, William E, and Lizzie J Deariso. Interviews, Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, part 3, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Deariso. Sylvester, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21009/.

APA citation style:

Lightfoot, W. E. & Deariso, L. J. (1977) Interviews, Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, part 3, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Deariso. Sylvester, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21009/.

MLA citation style:

Lightfoot, William E, and Lizzie J Deariso. Interviews, Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, part 3, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Deariso. Sylvester, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21009/>.