Departments



Articles

Less

Arts and Entertainment: Call To Artists
October 8th, 2012

Business Section: New Restaurant in Cedar Key
October 7th, 2012

Columns: North Florida – Wild Florida: The Cattle Drive
October 7th, 2012

Obituaries: Gary Dean Haldeman
October 6th, 2012

Announcements: BOOK BUNCH NEWS
October 6th, 2012

Announcements: Cedar Key Arts Center Workshop Schedule for October 2012
October 4th, 2012

Fishing News: Spanish Mackerel
October 4th, 2012

School News: The Shark Reports - 10/2/12
October 3rd, 2012

Law Enforcement News: Levy County Arrest Report 10/1/2012
October 2nd, 2012

Announcements: Levy County Libraries Soon to Offer FREE Downloads of Audiobooks and eBooks
October 2nd, 2012

Announcements: Florida Museum opens ‘Water: Discovering and Sharing Solutions’ exhibit Sept. 29
October 2nd, 2012

City News: 10-2-12 CRA and City Meetings Agenda
October 1st, 2012

Announcements: 2012 Cedar Key Yoga Group
October 1st, 2012

Announcements: Oyster Culture Activities in the Gulf of Mexico Region
October 1st, 2012

Announcements: Fire Destroys Structure in Rosewood
September 30th, 2012

More

This Week`s Library Program: Storyteller Kathy Dobronyl to Portray Florida Cracker History

This Week`s Library Program: Storyteller Kathy Dobronyl to Portray Florida Cracker History

by CKN Staff Reporter

Kathy Dobronyl is a teacher and storyteller. She comes to the Cedar Key Library this Thursday, March 14, to tell a story of the local turpentine industry of decades past. The program, upstairs at the Library, will begin at 5 pm.

When Kathy Dobronyl first met Dolores Cribbs, a Florida Cracker, the older woman said to her, "I wish someone would tell my story."

Using Cracker tales and expressions (and with a little help from a special hat and long dress), Kathy Dobronyl transforms herself into Dolores Cribbs to share stories about the Florida turpentine industry.

Dolores Cribbs found her family working at a Florida turpentine camp in the Big Bend area of Florida in the 1895 Florida census. Her great granddaddy never came back from the war, and the family moved from farming in Alabama to tapping trees and collecting gunk in Florida. Turpentine was a family affair. Entire families worked under the watchful eye of the "woodsrider" as he tallied the count of buckets collected from cat faces in the Florida piney woods.

Click for printer friendly version

Email this article to a friend

 

 

© 2013
Cedar Key News

cedarkeynews@gmail.com