Hotel manager of The Breakers talking with students

Executives

Fieldwork

Classrooms

Students

Elementary schools

Schools

Education

Children

Teaching of folklore

Oral narratives

Oral communication

Hotels

Business

Occupational groups

Hotelkeepers

Six color slides. Talking to students about running The Breakers, a Gilded Age hotel in South Florida. He was born in 1917 in St. Augustine to one of Florida's oldest families: the Solanos. He retired as assistant manager in 1983. 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

1987-05-07

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1685

v. 9

Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Rosenberg, Jan

Ponce, Jim (James Augustine), 1917-2015

Minorcan Americans

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