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Succulent ribs at the Zora Neale Hurston festival    Also housed at the UCF archives are documents, slides, and audiocassettes on public events and educational programs concerning Central Florida folklife. These include the annual Zora Neale Hurston festival in Eatonville; the Tarpon Springs Folk Arts Festival including audiocassettes of interviews with residents on the folklife of the sponge-diving industry; the Callahan Folk Arts Program, including an audiocassette recording of 2003 Florida Folk Heritage Award winner Troy Demps demonstrating the traditional art of African-American hymn lining and Traditional Arts Component in Hillsborough County Schools Project (1981) including the project report and a school publication on community foodways.

Detail of an Ella Dinkins Quilt    The annual Zora Neale Hurston festival celebrates the life and work of Eatonville folklorist and writer Zora Neale Hurston and features Black art and literature. At the archives, you may read newspaper articles about the Hurston festival and view slides of the work of African-American artists including quilt and hat-makers.

 

 
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