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LOGGER: [[strikeout]]Lori Taylor[[/strikeout]] Skye Morrison
REEL NUMBER: 1 STAGE: AFS
DATE: 6/24/1988 PRESENTOR: Nick Spitzer
GROUP NAME: "French-American Folklore"
Region/Style: "
PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Ray Brassieur: (folklorist - St. Martinville, Louisiana)
Raymond Sedotal: (Cajun boatbuilder - Pierre Port, Louisiana)
Nick Sitzer (folklorist - Washington, DC)
Joyce Dworsky: *Sign Language Interpretation
Lucy Sedotal: (Cook, Cajun food way Specialist)
CONTENTS
1. Introduction: NS
2. RB: Comments on ambivilant reaction to folk Revival as Cajuns
3. LS: Comments on popularization of Justin Wilson's cajun cooking differentiation from how mother did it: gives example.
4. NS: Cajun fast food dinners - can you comment
5. LS: Describes a Gumbo + particular fresh ingredients - used "roux" and water in Gumbo's
6. RS: is asked about the differences between dugout + plankboat dugout takes 6 to 7 weeks with hand tools.
7. NS: History + origins of dugouts
8. RS: Talks about stories in childhood of dugouts from Indians
9. RB: Origins agreeing from native Americans. Gumbo file - from Indians to Colonial French
10. NS: Original Accordian: not french ~ Language groups where Natives speak French
11. Asks audience what they think Cajun's lifestyles
12. RB: Comments on history of Cajun Culture
13. NS: Asks about northern perceptions of Cajuns eg. Big John
RS: Talks of party spirit, hard work, good seafood eater
NS: What about national image of Cajun's
RB: Cajun Adaptability from US = PTPoats untola Fette Skiff
example of Cajun ingenuity
=Why the skiffs haven't become more popular
RS: Cyprys construction: safety + stability of the skiff
NS: Reviews how the American Folklore Society chose its categories