COLLECTORS: 

Top left, Laurie Kay Sommers, folklorist and primary collector for the South Georgia Folklife Collection, holds a pot of wiregrass—the native forage grass for much of South Georgia--at the opening reception for the Folklife of Wiregrass Georgia exhibit in Valdosta, 2001. Other fieldworkers include Timothy Prizer, primary fieldworker for the Turpentine Series (top right, pictured in 2004 photo by Laurie Kay Sommers); Okefenokee collector Francis Harper, pictured here transcribing stories by Lone Thrift, Suwanee Lake, 1930 (copies of much of Harper’s Okefenokee field materials from the first half of the 20th century are included in the Okefenokee Series); and  fieldworkers for the 1977 Folklife Survey of South Central Georgia, a collaboration of the American Folklife Center (Library of Congress) and the Arts Experiment Station in Tifton: from top left Bill Lightfoot, Carl Fleischhauer, David Stanley; from bottom left, Thomas Adler, Howard Marshall, Beverly Robinson (copies of selected materials are included in the Wiregrass Series).

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