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Size | About 230 items (1.0 linear feet) |
Abstract | Folklorist Ann Kaplan was born in 1972 in Washington D.C. She earned an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. She has worked with the Southern Oral History Program, as an independent folklorist with diverse communities in North Carolina, and as director of the Orange County Arts Commission in Hillsborough, N.C. The Herring Run Folklife Project, funded by a folklife documentation grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, documents farming and fishing in Bertie County, N.C., through oral history interviews with residents and photographic slides. Audiocassettes consist of oral history interviews conducted by Ann Kaplan with residents in Bertie County, N.C., in which interviewees describe their lives farming and fishing. The interviews are accompanied by a description of the Herring Run Folklife Project and abstracts of the interviews. Slides contain images of Bertie County, N.C., including farmland; roadsides; boardwalks; fishermen at work; fishing nets; bait shops; interior shots of workers pickling, canning, and packaging fish at the Perry-Wynns Fish Corporation; fish markets; cafes; exterior shots of the Indian Woods Baptist Church; and an Indian Woods congregation fish fry. |
Creator | Kaplan, Ann. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Folklife Collection |
Language | English. |
Processed by: Steve Weiss, March 2001
Encoded by: Steve Weiss, March 2001
Updated by: Anne Wells, January 2020
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Folklorist Ann Kaplan was born in 1972 in Washington D.C. After growing up in Alexandria, Va., she attended Mary Washington College, where she earned a B.A. degree in anthropology in 1994. Kaplan completed her graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning an M.A. in folklore in 2000. While at UNC-CH, she worked as a research assistant with the Southern Oral History Program. She has also worked as an independent folklorist with diverse communities in North Carolina, including fishers and farmers of the North Carolina Coastal Plain, Jewish residents of eastern North Carolina, and Latinas in the North Carolina Piedmont. Kaplan serves as director of the Orange County Arts Commission in Hillsborough, N.C.
Back to TopThe Herring Run Folklife Project, funded by a folklife documentation grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, documents farming and fishing in Bertie County, N.C., through oral history interviews with residents and photographic slides.
Audiocassettes consist of oral history interviews conducted by Ann Kaplan with residents in Bertie County, N.C., in which interviewees describe their lives farming and fishing. The interviews are accompanied by a description of the Herring Run Folklife Project and abstracts of the interviews.
Slides contain images of Bertie County, N.C., including farmland; roadsides; boardwalks; fishermen at work; fishing nets; bait shops; interior shots of workers pickling, canning, and packaging fish at the Perry-Wynns Fish Corporation; fish markets; cafes; exterior shots of the Indian Woods Baptist Church; and an Indian Woods congregation fish fry.
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Audiocassettes consist of oral history interviews conducted by Ann Kaplan with residents in Bertie County, N.C., in which interviewees describe their lives farming and fishing. The interviews are accompanied by a description of the Herring Run Folklife Project and abstracts of the interviews.
Arrangement: Original order has been maintained.
Slides contain images of Bertie County, N.C., including farmland; roadsides; boardwalks; fishermen at work; fishing nets; bait shops; interior shots of workers pickling, canning, and packaging fish at the Perry-Wynns Fish Corporation; fish markets; cafes; exterior shots of the Indian Woods Baptist Church; and an Indian Woods congregation fish fry.
Folder 2 |
Slides #1-213 |
Folder 3 |
Slide descriptions |
Audiocassettes (FS-5509-5521)
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