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.
Songs are arranged by genre. For more information on the artists' home communities, visit the Ports of Call page here.
New York
Pete Ames (Little Neck, NY)
Making Fishing Rods
Jack Combs (Long Island, NY)
Cooking "Down The Bay"
Decoy Carving
Mosquito Erradication
Reggie Jones (Jones Beach, NY)
Lifeguarding at Jones Beach
Stewart Lester (Amagansett, Long Island, NY)
Weather on the Water
Cory Weyant (Freeport, NY)
Working the Smokehouse (video)
New Jersey
Phil Cisrow (Port Norris, NJ)
Cooking Oysters
Shucking Oysters
Sarah Cisrow (Port Norris, NJ)
Oyster Fritters
Clarence Fennimore (Tuckerton, NJ)
Duck Decoy Carving Demonstration (video)
Steve Meserve (Lambertville, NJ)
River Fishing
Sue Meserve (Lambertville, NJ)
The Lewis Fishery
Scott Sheppard (Port Norris, NJ)
Starting a Fishing Career
Carl Tarnow (Raritan Bay, NJ)
New Car Story (video)
Tarnow Sunrise (video)
Family Fishing
Meagan Wren (Bivalve, NJ)
AJ Meerwald
Bay Day in Bivalve
Storms at Sea
Delaware
Hazel Brittingham (Lewes, DE)
Military Presence in Lewes
Dick Buckaloo (Lewes, DE)
Boating Apprentice
Doug Gibson (Milville, DE)
Decoy Carving
Carving as a Kid
Shirley Price (Cedar Neck, DE)
Bait and Tackle Shop
Clyde Roberts (Port Penn, DE)
The Essence of a Fisherman
Maryland
Pie Edwards (Rock Hall, MD)
Waterman
Mark Donohue (Piney Point, MD)
On Being a Rigger
On Restoring Historic Ships
Charlie Petrocci (Tilghman Island, MD)
The Origins of Hunting Clubs
Joyce Fitchett (Crisfield, MD)
Crab Picking
Ron Fithian (Rock Hall, MD)
Hurricane Isabelle
Bernadette Gesser (Rock Hall, MD)
Lighthouse Story
James Lane (Crisfield, MD)
History of the Oyster Industry
Wayne "Hon" Lawson (Crisfield, MD)
Hurricane from an Airplane
Hurricane Hazel
Glen Phillips (Ocean City, MD)
Competition Calling
Lynn Stevens (Shady Side, MD)
Building Sails
Richie Tillman (Chesapeake Bay, MD)
Screaming Eels
Virginia
Harold Anderson (Reedville, VA)
Purse Seining
David Burden (Cape Charles, VA)
Tourism on the Eastern Shore
Ecotourism and Development
Grayson Chesser (Sanford, VA)
Sink Boxes
Coastal Family (video)
Shawn Giacobbe (Chincoteague, VA)
First Time Fishing
Binky Dize (Smith Island, VA)
Smith Island Life
Donkey Baseball
Arthur Leonard (Chincoteague, VA)
Cooking Duck
Mildred Moore (Pamunkey Reservation, VA)
Life on the Pamunkey River
Bo Lusk (Cape Charles, VA)
Ecotourism
Kenny Pinkard (Burgess, VA)
Menhadden Fishing
Janice Marshall (Smith Island, VA)
On Island Isolation
Smith Island Community
Joe Youcha (Alexandria, VA)
Traditional Flatbottom Skiffs
North Carolina
Karen Amspacher (Harkers Island, NC)
Isolation (with Janice Marshall)
Tourism
Nights on Harkers Island
Lonnie Ray Sykes (Columbia, NC)
Mornings in the Marsh
Chatmon Bryant (Alligator, NC)
Duck Blinds
Heber Guthrie (Gloucester, NC)
Boat-building
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
Melvin Twiddy (Manns Harbor, NC)
Storm Story
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