Volume 2
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Apr-Jun 2002
March
17-He Is Risen
16-50 years ago
15-St. Patrick
14-A Song of Drake's Men
13-Cleopatra's Needle
February
12-Ankle Sprains
11-Ski Jumping
10-The Original Tom Thumb
9-Happy Birthday Mom
January
8-Lustron Homes
7-Thinking About Motion Pictures
6-BNSF Rail Yard
5-Petrified Forest
4-Wake Up Jacob
3-Free Throw Specialist
2-House Numbers for Bees
1-Sloppy Joe's Bar
Volume 1
December 2001
Fascinatum Main
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Shouts and Hollers:
Wake Up, Jacob
A holler sung by the shack-rouster, or man hired to wake up the workers in a big work camp. This one was heard at a sawmill in Polk County. (req. Quicktime 3 or newer)
PERFORMER: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston, originally of Eatonville, Florida, was already a published novelist and folklorist when she took a job with the Federal Writers' Project in Florida.
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Vol. 2 - January - No. 4
photo by Alan Lomax
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