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Two external websites were produced
by the South Georgia Folklife Project.

“Faces” in the Piney Woods: Traditions of Turpentining in South Georgia is a multi-media website from an oral history project of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University. It reflects the perspective of the field of folklore aSnd focuses on the occupational folklife of South Georgia turpentine workers. This site contains information gathered from 1998-2004 through background research, photographs, video, and oral interviews. It includes information on work in the woods and life in the turpentine camps as told by those who lived it. This project is supported in part by an award from the Georgia Council for the Arts through the Appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Folkwriting: Lessons on Place, Heritage, and Tradition for the Georgia Classroom (Valdosta State University 2002), is a PDF version of the workbook by Diane Howard and Laurie Sommers, with educators from Cook County (Georgia) schools. The workbook links the writing process to folklife and combines approaches from place-based education, heritage education, and folklife in education. It was funded by grants from the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Writing Project.

 

 

 



 

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