Interviews with wheelwright Lester Hollenback with his apprentice Albert (Tico) Rubio

Woodworkers

Blacksmiths

Fieldwork

Wheels

Blacksmithing

Woodwork

Personal experience narratives

Woodworking tools

Workshops

Tools

Occupational groups

Occupational training

Metalwork

Interviews

Life histories

Oral histories

Apprentices

Wheelwrights

Three audio cassettes. Interviews occurred on three separate dates: tape 17 (14 December 1991), tape 18 (30 March 1992) and tape 19 (25 June 1992). They discuss their lives, how they learned their skills, and the progress they made during the apprenticeship. They performed the work at the Pioneer Settlement where Rubio worked as a blacksmith. Hollenback was originally from Illinois were he learned blacksmith and wheelwrighting from his father. Rubio was originally from New York. For more information on both of them, see S 1644, box 10, folder 5. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by first folklorist Peter Roller, then folklorist Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1640

1991-12-14

Florida Folklife Program

Barberville Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts

sound recordings

audiocassettes

Sound

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S1640

23

Tapes 17-19

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Stone, Robert, 1944-

Hollenback, Lester, 1922-

Rubio, Albert Tico, 1943-

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