Smoking turkey demonstration at Galaxy Elementary

Cooks

Fieldwork

Smoked meat

Cookery (Meat)

Schools

Elementary schools

Teaching of folklore

Education

Children

Demonstrations

Meat

Outdoor cookery

Curing (food)

Barbecue cookery

Food preparation

Turkey

Cookery (Turkey)

Bahamian American

African Americans

Students

Eleven color slides. Thompson first began smoking turkey in 1972 while stationed in Texas in the US Army. He was born in Delray beach from Bahamian parents. For smoking he uses Australian pine and oak. He can smoke 10 to 20 turkeys at a time with special racks he made. He also smoked fish for the Delray Fish Market. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1685

1986-11-20

Florida Folklife Program

Galaxy Elementary School (Lake Worth, Fla.)

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1685

v. 9

Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Rosenberg, Jan

Thompson, William, 1934-

Bahamian American

African American

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