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Brown, Elbert Brown, James Davis, Lena Harbin, James McKinley, Gale Smith, Alda
Digital Traditions - Special Projects
Digital Traditions was developed to provide access to the Folklife Resource Center (FRC) at McKissick Museum. For thirty years, deeply rooted traditions like quilting, pottery, basketry, communal foodways, and folk music have been documented through audio, video, and photography.
Find special projects that have been digitized for exploration.
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Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards Listing
Digital Traditions - Teacher Resources
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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
About The Materials The Educator Guides listed below were published to introduce teachers and students in the K-12 community to some of the rich South Carolina folklife traditions. These resources are...
Considerable Grace Vol. II Audio Transcript | Digital Traditoins
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Audio transcript from Considerable Grace Vol. II
Foggy Mountain Breakdown/Long Gone | Digital Traditions
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Grades: 9 10 11 12
Scape Ore Bluegrass Company
Considerable Grace Vol. I Audio Transcript | Digital Traditions
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Audio transcripts for Considerable Grace Vol. I
About Edgefield Pottery
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The Crossroads of Clay project began in 1981, under the direction of Dr. George D. Terry, then Curator of History and Associate Director of McKissick Museum. The project aimed to research the...
About The Survey of South Carolina’s Tradition Bearers | Digital Traditions
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The Survey of South Carolina’s Tradition Bearers is a documentation project of traditional artists in all forty-six counties of the Palmetto State. The survey provides a contemporary perspective on...
Mt. Pleasant Sweetgrass Basketmakers' Association | Digital Traditions
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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
The African-American craft of making coiled baskets has been practiced in the South Carolina lowcountry for more than two centuries. Scholars acknowledge sweetgrass basketmaking as one of the most...
James Brown | Digital Traditions
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Grades: 6 7 8
James Brown was born in 1933 in Barnwell, SC, where he spent his early childhood. He developed his interest in music at an early age, performing gospel songs and first playing piano and later bass and...
Catawba Cultural Preservation Project | Digital Traditions
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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
In 1993, the General Assembly added a special advocacy category to the Folk Heritage Award. The first advocacy award was presented to the Catawba Cultural Preservation Project of Rock Hill. An...
Bill Kinney, Jr. | Digital Traditions
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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Bill Kinney was born and raised in Bennettsville, South Carolina, where his parents were publishers of the local newspaper. Today, Kinney follows in the footsteps of his parents, serving as the editor...
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston is the recipient of the Advocacy award for the preservation and promotion of the folk history and...
About the Digital Traditions Project
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What is the Folklife Resource Center? Established in 1985, the Folklife Resource Center (FRC) at McKissick Museum focuses on documenting South Carolina traditional culture. The preservation and...
Talking with the Turners Photo Gallery | Digital Traditions
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In 1981, University of South Carolina art professor Charles Mack traveled the South to document traditional pottery. A departure for Mack, whose research normally focused on Italian Renaissance...
What is Traditional Southern Pottery? | Digital Traditions
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Since the first kilns were built by Spaniards on the South Carolina coast in the late 1500s, pottery has played an essential role in American life. People depended less on store-bought goods and the...
Dr. Charles Mack's Introduction | Digital Traditions
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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Dr. Charles Mack: It’s only in the South that the folk pottery heritage of this country has been able to maintain an uninterrupted presence. The potters, with whom I spoke, in the summer of 1981...
Digital Traditions - Artists
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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Ahrens, Pat All Male Chorus of Blacksburg Arnold, Mac Ayers, Sara Basket, Nancy Baylor, Amos Bellow, Roger Bennett, Mary Jane Benson, JD Blackwell, Richard Boggs, Horatio Manning Bollack, James Booker...
Row Upon Row Video Transcript | Digital Traditions
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The video transcript for: "Gullah Baskets" Edna Rouse In "Gullah Baskets" More From "Gullah Baskets" Charleston Basketweavers Mazie Brown Future Of Basketmaking
Catawba Cultural Preservation Project Photos | Digital Traditions
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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
In 1993, the General Assembly added a special advocacy category to the Folk Heritage Award. The first advocacy award was presented to the Catawba Cultural Preservation Project of Rock Hill. An...
Finding the Common Man in the Films of Joel & Ethan Coen PHOTOS | Digital Traditions
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Grades: 9 10 11 12
This photo gallery is apart of the essay Finding the Common Man in the Films of Joel & Ethan Coen
We Just Call It Cush Photos | Digital Traditions
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As Jerry “Butch” Nichols of the Piedmont Fire Department says, “cush is a Piedmont thing!” Largely confined to Piedmont and the surrounding area of Williamston and Pelger, the cush tradition goes back...
