This website is a project of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, Deborah S. Davis, archivist. Laurie Kay Sommers served as folklore consultant. James Hornsby of the VSU Art Department designed the site with assistance from Archives webmaster, Patrick J. Taylor. Special thanks to Stacey Wright, Andy Fore, Paul Flowers, Brad Bamford of PC Associates, Fred Sanchez of Great Impressions, photographer Diane Kirkland of the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade, and Tourism, photographer Bill Godfrey of Georgia Forestry Magazine, videographer Bill Muntz of VSU Public Services, and to Rex DeVane and the staff of the VSU Media Center. None of this would have been possible without the generous contributions of numerous individuals who generously shared their traditions and talents with the South Georgia Folklife Project.
Website development is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts. The South Georgia Folklife Project, on which the website is based, received primary funding from Valdosta State University and a series of National Endowment for the Arts Folk and Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative grants (1998-2005). Other funding agencies which contributed to the development of materials found on the website include the Georgia Humanities Council, the Southern Arts Federation, and the Fund for Folk Culture.
The South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University lost funding in June 2005, but selections from its ethnographic collections and public programs are archived on this website. The Finding Aid lists items in the collection, now housed in the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections of Odum Library.
For information about the collection and this site contact
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections
Odum Library
1500 N. Patterson Street
Valdosta, GA 31698
229-333-7150© 2007 Valdosta State University
This website is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (CGA) through the appropriations of the Georgia Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts.