Top of page

Audio Recording Interviews at the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse, Sylvester, Georgia, with Wallace Hurst, Wade Hurst, Richard Brooks, and Jack Smith

About this Item

Title

  • Interviews at the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse, Sylvester, Georgia, with Wallace Hurst, Wade Hurst, Richard Brooks, and Jack Smith

Names

  • Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector)
  • Hurst, Wallace
  • Hurst, Wade
  • Smith, Jack
  • Brooks, Richard

Created / Published

  • Sylvester, Georgia, August 16, 1977

Headings

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

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Side A: Part 1 of a series of interviews and conversations, including Richard Brooks, recorded in the office of the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse, Sylvester, Georgia, the fieldworker’s notes state that the brothers Wallace Hurst and Wade Hurst run the warehouse and note that an electric fan is heard in the recording, Brooks (born 1914) is a friend knowledgeable about local history and traditions, most narratives from Brooks, about Scooterville (unincorporated place in Worth County GA), also called the "bloody ninth" (for 9th District), about planting by the signs, cotton ginning, about playing a prank on a black man, belt said to be a snake, about a man who protected his moonshine by putting it in a slop jar, Wallace Hurst tells about fooling a man called Junebug by telling him barbecued rabbits were human embryos, Brook tells about how the funeral home was next to the gin and he pranked a boy with a dummy taken to be a corpse, about dove hunting, cures for rattlesnake bites, mullein leaf as remedy for sprains, egg white for boils, about a woman who can stop bleeding, about conjuring and root doctors.
  • -  Side B: Part 2 of the series, interview and conversation with Jack Smith, recorded in the office of the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse, Sylvester, Georgia, the fieldworker’s notes state that the brothers Wallace Hurst and Wade Hurst run the warehouse, Smith (born 1908) is a friend knowledgeable about local history and traditions, most narratives from Smith, about planning by the signs, in the past, activities after supper included reading the Bible and newspapers, about a man and rice, Wade Hurst tells a tall tale about a hound that outran a raccoon, about Henderson Keller, a strong man, about pranking a boasting man with a cow skull, pranking blacks in a church with a horn, about alligators and fishing in the region.

Medium

  • audiocassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 21031
  • MBRS shelflist: RYA 0931
  • Field project identifier: GA7-WL-C38

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

Rights & Access

The Library of Congress believes that some of the materials in this collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions, and are therefore free to use or reuse. For example, the fieldwork in this collection is in the public domain in the United States.

However, the Library has obtained permission for the use of other materials, and presents additional materials for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law. For example, some of the recordings contain copyrighted music, and not all of the performers and other individuals who were recorded signed releases for public use of their work.

In addition, the American Folklife Center and the professional fieldworkers who carry out these projects feel a strong ethical responsibility to the people they have visited and who have consented to have their lives documented for the historical record. The Center asks that researchers approach the materials in this collection with respect for the culture and sensibilities of the people whose lives, ideas, and creativity are documented here. Researchers are also reminded that privacy and publicity rights may pertain to certain uses of this material.

Researchers or others who would like to make further use of these collection materials should contact the Folklife Reading Room for assistance. Rights assessment is your responsibility. The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. However, the information we have may not be accurate or complete.

More about Copyright and other Restrictions

For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources.

Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Lightfoot, William E, Wallace Hurst, Wade Hurst, Jack Smith, and Richard Brooks. Interviews at the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse, Sylvester, Georgia, with Wallace Hurst, Wade Hurst, Richard Brooks, and Jack Smith. Sylvester, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21031/.

APA citation style:

Lightfoot, W. E., Hurst, W., Hurst, W., Smith, J. & Brooks, R. (1977) Interviews at the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse, Sylvester, Georgia, with Wallace Hurst, Wade Hurst, Richard Brooks, and Jack Smith. Sylvester, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21031/.

MLA citation style:

Lightfoot, William E, et al. Interviews at the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse, Sylvester, Georgia, with Wallace Hurst, Wade Hurst, Richard Brooks, and Jack Smith. Sylvester, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21031/>.