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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Ann Kaplan Collection #20338, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Ann Kaplan of Carrboro, N.C., on 17 September 1999 (Acc. 98453).

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Processed by: Steve Weiss, March 2001

Encoded by: Steve Weiss, March 2001

Updated by: Anne Wells, January 2020

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Agriculture--North Carolina--Bertie County.
• Argiculture--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Bertie County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Colerain (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Farmers--North Carolina--Interviews.
• Farmers--North Carolina.
• Fish trade--North Carolina.
• Fishers--North Carolina--Interviews.
• Fishers--North Carolina.
• Fishing--North Carolina--Bertie County.
• Fishing--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Folklore--North Carolina.
• Indian Woods Baptist Church (Windsor, N.C.).
• Kaplan, Ann.
• North Carolina Arts Council.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century.
• Oral history.
• Perry-Wynns Fish Corporation (Colerain, N.C.).
• Windsor (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

Folklorist Ann Kaplan was born in 1972 in Washington D.C. After growing up in Alexandria, Va., she attended Mary Washington College, where she earned a B.A. degree in anthropology in 1994. Kaplan completed her graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning an M.A. in folklore in 2000. While at UNC-CH, she worked as a research assistant with the Southern Oral History Program. She has also worked as an independent folklorist with diverse communities in North Carolina, including fishers and farmers of the North Carolina Coastal Plain, Jewish residents of eastern North Carolina, and Latinas in the North Carolina Piedmont. Kaplan serves as director of the Orange County Arts Commission in Hillsborough, N.C.

The Herring Run Folklife Project, funded by a folklife documentation grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, documents farming and fishing in Bertie County, N.C., through oral history interviews with residents and photographic slides.

Audiocassettes consist of oral history interviews conducted by Ann Kaplan with residents in Bertie County, N.C., in which interviewees describe their lives farming and fishing. The interviews are accompanied by a description of the Herring Run Folklife Project and abstracts of the interviews.

Slides contain images of Bertie County, N.C., including farmland; roadsides; boardwalks; fishermen at work; fishing nets; bait shops; interior shots of workers pickling, canning, and packaging fish at the Perry-Wynns Fish Corporation; fish markets; cafes; exterior shots of the Indian Woods Baptist Church; and an Indian Woods congregation fish fry.

Audiocassettes (FS-5509-5521)