In July and August 1977 the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, set about recording life in the state’s Wiregrass region. Researchers focused on: hymn singing, fiddle, banjo music, vernacular architecture, quilts, boat building and occupations.
They are snapshots of the everyday.
Georgian House in Sylvester, Georgia; Jessie Lee’s Smith’s house; Roberts House on the road to Ocilla, Georgia
Cecil Bridges, bird house maker; Sacred Harp singing at churchhouse at Georgia Agrirama,Tifton, Georgia
Town and Country Hour show on WAML-TV; Hickory Springs Church; Log house at Allen Shellhorse, Tift County, Georgia
Janie and Keith Doss home; Preston Newell’s home, Tift County, Georgia
Note singing in Sylvester with Mrs. Teals, Sylvester, Georgia
Electric corn cob; Dog trot house; Jefferson Davis Memorial; Wiregrass, Worth County, Georgia
Royal Family Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia
Church in Turner County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Georgia
Bethel Church Homecoming
Raymond Green and log house, Ocilla, Georgia
Ty Ty, Georgia; Tifton County, Georgia
Ty Ty, Georgia; Tifton County, Georgia
C.M. Copeland and his carvings
Fishing trip on Alapaha River
The Mighty Spiritual Crusaders 15th Anniversary Concert, Worth County, Georgia
Jessie Lee Smith, Tifton, Georgia, and Akins Family, Berrien County, Georgia
Etta Anderson collecting herbs
Etta Anderson’s Herbs, Ocilla, Georgia
Picking tobacco with Akins Family, Berrien County, Georgia
South Georgia cemeteries, Wilcox County, Georgia
(Aunt) Phyllis Carter in Brookfield, Georgia
Barber Shop, Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia
Mrs. Fannie Lee Teals, quilting, Tifton, Georgia
Doss family, Tift County, Georgia
Dorsey’s Barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia
Clements House, Turner County, Georgia
Lenox, Georgia
On the Alapaha River, northeast of Enigma, Georgia
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