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LOGGER'S SHEET 99 LOGGER: Mark Miller REEL NUMBER: 3 STAGE: AFS DATE: 6/25/88 PRESENTOR: Nick Spitzer GROUP NAME: Conservation: Natural and Cultural REGION/STYLE: PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION Nancy Sweezy-Refuge Arts Group, Boston-folklorist Raymond Sedotal-Cajun boatbuilder, Pierre Part, La. Elizabeth Fleming-Afro-American basketmaker, Charleston, S.C. CONTENTS 1. Spitzer explains early history of study of folklore in U.S. and AFS. 2. Sedotal talks about shortage of cypress now and having to use marine plywood in addition to cypress. Explains getting "sinkers" - 3. Cypess logs sunk under water 4. Fleming - Problems in getting sweetgrass to make her baskets 5. due to development eliminating the open fields where it grows, Basket weavers formed a committee to save the grasses. 6. Swezey - Experiences with potters in North Carolina who dug 7. their own clay and development on top of clay beds. Also, 8. tendency now of potters to buy clay, rather than dig it because of the time involved. 9. Problems of southeast Asians in getting bamboo, other 10. materials to make kites. 11. Sedotal - young people still interested in boats and boatbuilding 12. Fleming - Attraction of young people to basket building, keeping 13. local language - gullah - alive