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Resources for Florida Stories
Compiled by Karl Hallsten and Mary Lee Sweet
- Florida Folktales
J. Russell Reaver, Editor
University of Florida Press, 1987 ~ ISBN: 0813005700
This book contains 90 stories or story fragments collected in
Florida. Largely a collection of oral stories written as they were
told by the "folk." Some may lack completeness as to standard
formats. Nearly all provide excellent material from which to build a
very effective story.
- Sandspun: Florida Tales
by Florida Tellers
Annette J. Bruce and J. Stephen Brooks, Compilers
Pineapple Press, 2001 ~ ISBN: 156142428
Recent anthology of very tellable tales from 24 Florida
storytellers from up and down and across the state. Annette founded
what is now the Florida Storytelling Association and has two other
books of stories on this list.
- Tellable Cracker Tales
Annette J. Bruce
Pineapple Press, 1996 ~ ISBN: 156142436
More Tellable Cracker Tales
Annette J. Bruce
Pineapple Press, 2002 ~ ISBN: 1561642533
Annette J. Bruce is often called "The Florida Storyteller."
She is well known not only for her skill as a storyteller, but her
contributions to storytelling in Florida. The stories in these
collections are ready to tell and will delight audiences of any age.
The books contain a wide genre such as Cracker Jack Tales, Folktales
and Legends, Historical Stories, Tall Tales and Nonsense Stories,
and Gator Tales.
- A Treasury of Florida
Tales
Webb B. Garrison
Rutledge Hill Press, 1989 ~ ISBN: 155853038X
From Ponce de Leon to Space Coast and Mickey Mouse, Garrison
tells short, interesting stories of Florida's greatest treasures;
the people, the places, and the events.
- Uncle Monday and Other
Florida Tales
Kristin G. Congdon
University of Mississippi Press, 2002 ~ ISBN: 157806385X
This extensive anthology of Florida folk tales begins with a
chapter on storytelling in Florida, and then each of the subsequent
chapters contains 9-12 stories in different genres. Chapter titles
include How Things Came to be the Way They Are; People
with Special Powers; Food, Friends and Family; Unusual
Places, Spaces and Events; and Ghosts and the Supernatural.
Each story has a background introduction to set it in a context. The
book is written to be usable by children, youth, and adults, and has
attractive pen and ink illustrations by Kitty Kitson Petterson.
- Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston
HarperCollins, 1990 ~ ISBN: 0060916486
Go Gator and Muddy the Water:
Writings from the Federal Writers' Project
Zora Neale Hurston and Pamela Bordelon, Editors
W. W. Norton, 1999 ~ ISBN: 1402830750
The two books above are a treasury of black America's
folklore collected by the famous storyteller and anthropologist who
grew up hearing the songs, sermons, and tall tales. Zora Neale
Hurston went into the swamps and small towns of Florida with
notebooks and old recording machines. She was rewarded with
first-person accounts of stories from the 19th century. Big John de
Conquer, Sister Snail, and Brother Frog, alligators, and tricksters
are all tales found in Florida places such as Palatka, Orlando, and
Ocala.
- Floridians All
George S. Fichter
Pelican Publishing, 1991 ~ ISBN: 0882898043
An introduction to the many people who have achieved fame
through work they did, either in Florida or from Florida. It is
great for curriculum ideas and stories are short.
- Cracker: The Cracker
Culture in Florida History
Dana Ste. Claire
University of Florida Press, 2005 ~ ISBN: 0933053134
Dr. James M. Denham, Professor of History at Florida Southern
College, describes this volume as "part anthology, part
anthropology, part history, part folklore." There is gold in these
pages, but you will have to dig it out. History buffs will love this
book, but the folklore is there, too.
- The Florida Chronicles,
Volume 1:
Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags
Stuart McIver
Pineapple Press, 1994 ~ ISBN: 1561641553
The Florida Chronicles, Volume 2:
Murder in the Tropics
Stuart McIver
Pineapple Press, 1995 ~ ISBN: 1561640794
The Florida Chronicles, Volume 3:
Touched by the Sun
Stuart McIver
Pineapple Press, 2001 ~ ISBN: 1561642061
Stuart McIver uses biography, journalism, and storytelling to
portray Florida's history-making individuals. Storytellers,
lawbreakers, movers and shakers, sportsmen, movie makers,
visionaries and mobsters, presidents, cowboys, gangsters, baseball
players, writers, politicians, captains of industry, inventors,
movie stars, and even a fire chief are all part of the tales of
Florida. Stories are short and easy to adapt for telling. History
buffs will find these stories great for research ideas.
- Florida's Past:
People and Events that Shaped the State
Gene M. Burnett
Volume 1: Pineapple Press, 1988 ~ ISBN: 0910923590
Volume 2: Pineapple Press, 1998 ~ ISBN: 1561641391
Volume 3: Pineapple Press, 1998 ~ ISBN: 1561641170
A three-volume series. LeRoy Collins, former Governor of
Florida, writes, "Burnett is a skillful storyteller and writer. Each
of the individual stories stands on its own base, but taken together
they present a mosaic of the real Florida of earlier years."
Florida Historical Quarterly said, "These free-wheeling
narratives have life, and together they are compelling stories that
form the fabric of early Florida." These short, fascinating stories
of Florida history are easy to adapt to telling, and are great
springboards for further research.
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