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Festival Memories
Hear maritime music and stories, view videos, and see photos from the 2004 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Water Ways Program 
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Storytelling and Oral Tradition
Throughout the course of the 2004 Folklife Festival, dozens of story tellers shared their experiences living on or near the water, from stories of everyday life to fanciful tall tales. Click on the links below to listen to live recordings from the Festival.


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shore Memories

  New York
Pete Ames
Little Neck, NY
   Making Fishing Rods (audio)
Jack Combs
Long Island, NY
Cooking "Down The Bay" (audio)
Decoy Carving (audio)
Mosquito Erradication (audio)
Reggie Jones
Jones Beach, NY
Lifeguarding at Jones Beach (audio)

Stewart Lester
Amagansett, Long Island, NY

Weather on the Water (audio)
Cory Weyant
Freeport, NY
Working the Smokehouse (video)
 
    
 New Jersey
Phil Cisrow
Port Norris, NJ
Cooking Oysters (audio)
Shucking Oysters (audio)
Sarah Cisrow
Port Norris, NJ
Oyster Fritters (audio)
Clarence Fennimore
Tuckerton, NJ
Duck Decoy Carving Demonstration (video)
Steve Meserve
Lambertville, NJ
River Fishing (audio)
Sue Meserve
Lambertville, NJ
The Lewis Fishery (audio)
Scott Sheppard
Port Norris, NJ
Starting a Fishing Career (audio)
Carl Tarnow
Raritan Bay, NJ
New Car Story (video)
Tarnow Sunrise (video)
Family Fishing (audio)
Meagan Wren
Bivalve, NJ
AJ Meerwald (audio)
Bay Day in Bivalve (audio)

Storms at Sea (audio)

 

   
  Delaware
Hazel Brittingham
Lewes, DE
Military Presence in Lewes (audio)
Dick Buckaloo
Lewes, DE
Boating Apprentice (audio)
Doug Gibson
Milville, DE
 
Decoy Carving (audio)
Carving as a Kid (audio)
Shirley Price
Cedar Neck, DE
Bait and Tackle Shop (audio)

Clyde Roberts                                                                         Port Penn, DE

The Essence of a Fisherman (audio)
 
  Maryland
 
Pie Edwards                                                                  Rock Hall, MD
Waterman (audio)
Mark Donohue
Piney Point, MD
On Being a Rigger (audio)
On Restoring Historic Ships (audio)
Charlie Petrocci
Tilghman Island, MD
The Origins of Hunting Clubs (audio)
Joyce Fitchett
Crisfield, MD
Crab Picking (audio)
Ron Fithian
Rock Hall, MD
Hurricane Isabelle (audio)
Bernadette Gesser
Lighthouse Story (audio)
James Lane
Crisfield, MD
History of the Oyster Industry (audio)  
Wayne "Hon" Lawson
Crisfield, MD
Hurricane from an Airplane (audio)
Hurricane Hazel (audio)
Glen Phillips
Ocean City, MD
Competition Calling (audio)
Lynn Stevens
Shady Side, MD
Building Sails (audio)
Richie Tillman
Chesapeake Bay, MD
Screaming Eels (audio)
 
 
  Virginia

Harold Anderson                                             Reedville, VA

 
Purse Seining (audio)
David Burden
Cape Charles, VA
Tourism on the Eastern Shore (audio)
Ecotourism and Development (audio)
Grayson Chesser
Sanford, VA
Sink Boxes (audio)
Coastal Family (video)

 

Shawn Giacobbe
Chincoteague, VA
First Time Fishing (audio)
Binky Dize
Smith Island, VA
 
Smith Island Life (audio)
Donkey Baseball (audio)
Arthur Leonard                                         Chincoteague, VA
Cooking Duck (audio)
Mildred Moore
Pamunkey Reservation, VA
Life on the Pamunkey River (audio)
Bo Lusk
Cape Charles, VA
Ecotourism (audio)
Kenny Pinkard                                                     Burgess, VA
Menhadden Fishing (audio)
Janice Marshall
Smith Island, VA
On Island Isolation (audio)
Smith Island Community (audio)
Joe Youcha
Alexandria, VA
Traditional Flatbottom Skiffs (audio)
 
 North Carolina
Karen Amspacher
Harkers Island, NC
Isolation (with Janice Marshall) (audio)
Tourism (audio)
Nights on Harkers Island (audio)
Lonnie Ray Sykes
Columbia, NC
Mornings in the Marsh (audio)
Chatmon Bryant
Alligator, NC
Duck Blinds (audio)
Heber Guthrie
Gloucester, NC
Boat-building (audio)
Rodney Kemp
Moorehead City, NC
The Best Duck Dog Story (video)
The Story of Uncle Cleve (video)
Kelley Nelson
Moorehead City, NC
Decoy Carving (video)
Debbie Styron
Cedar Island, NC
Cooking Shrimp (audio)
Melvin Twiddy
Manns Harbor, NC
Storm Story (audio)
 
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