Full Interview 1 (Tape 0316-S1). [Additional speakers: GA050A]
Content:
00:10 Lived on Billy's Island in 1923 with 700 people in cypress logging community
04:30 Indian graves all over the swamp, also Indian mounds nearby, and a cemetery for Whites on the island. Indians driven away
08:50 Water flows out of swamp. How "trembling earth" works. Cutting and removing timber
14:15 Log too big for sawmill, stump large enough to cook dinner on. Cypress knees
17:10 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0316-S2). [Additional speakers: GA050A]
Content:
01:10 Living off of the swamp in the Depression. Trapping camps in the winter to catch raccoon and otter. Hanging furs to dry
04:30 Helping government survey the swamp while trapping. Different sorts of fish in swamp
08:20 Snakes everywhere, lots of alligators. Hibernating alligators, pulling them out for skins, alligators looking like floating logs
13:00 Alligator hunting with light or probe. Drowning them by plugging their burrows
17:05 Tape end
Full Interview 3 (Tape 0317-S1). [Additional speakers: GA050A]
Content:
00:10 Spent night in house of swamp resident once when truck broke down. Story of swamp family that was almost wild
04:30 Difference between hammock land and flat land. Too much acid in latter. Yellow pine timber
09:00 Amazing yellow pine on island, now area is mostly slash pine farmed by paper company
12:30 Dried tops of yellow pines are lighter knots, burn really well. Can tell if a tree will split easily. Yellow pine boards last for a really long time
17:00 Tape end
Full Interview 4 (Tape 0317-S2). [Additional speakers: GA050A]
Content:
00:10 Counting rings to get a tree's age—yellow pine rings too close together
05:20 Tupelo plant for tupelo honey, their bees prefer gallberry. Fieldworker trying to identify plant cuttings
09:00 More plant names, black gum trees used for hardwood—soft but splittable
13:00 Snakes everywhere, cottonmouths, water moccasins, and rattlesnakes sunning themselves
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