Cortez, FL

Interviewee Sort descending	Description	Interviewer	Date of Interview	Location of Interview	Affiliation	Collection
Albert Mora	Mr. Albert Mora discusses his life of fishing around Cortez and the demise of the commercial fishing there.	Michael Jepson, Wayne Nield	Sat, 04/10/1993 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Humanities Council, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Maritime Museum	Vanishing Culture Project
Alcee Taylor	Mr. Alcee Taylor talks about his life of fishing, selling and war experiences. PDF NOTE: The PDF of this transcript is available upon request. Email voices@noaa.gov for access.	Michael Jepson, Wayne Nield	Thu, 01/21/1993 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Humanities Council, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Maritime Museum	Vanishing Culture Project
Calvin Bell	Mr Bell, interviewed by Mr Jepson, talks about fishing in Cortez, stop netting, etc. and as they walk along the docks talking about boats and building. PDF NOTE: The PDF of this transcript is available upon request. Email voices@noaa.gov for access.	Michael Jepson, Wayne Nield	Sat, 04/10/1993 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Humanities Council, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Maritime Museum	Vanishing Culture Project
Cortez Grand Old Opry	Goose Culbreath and members of the Cortez Grand Old Opry play Bluegrass music. The interview includes both playing and talking about the music. Other members are Rich Culbreath and Ray Bach.	Michael Jepson	Sun, 05/16/1993 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Humanities Council, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Maritime Museum	Vanishing Culture Project
Doris Green	This interview discusses mostly family history. She did a lot of Cortez history work. Green wrote a book, Fog's Comin In, a history of Cortez with many pictures.	Michael Jepson	Wed, 01/27/1993 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Humanities Council, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Maritime Museum	Vanishing Culture Project
Earl Taylor	Mr. Earl Taylor talks about his fishing history with others over the years. He quit when he was married and was a cook for a while before he came back to fishing.	Michael Jepson	Fri, 04/23/1993 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Humanities Council, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Maritime Museum	Vanishing Culture Project
Elizabeth Jones	Elizabeth Pearson Jones talks about her family history and a 1921 hurricane.	Michael Jepson	Tue, 02/02/1993 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Humanities Council, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Maritime Museum	Vanishing Culture Project
Henry Adams	Topics covered in this interview include: family history, his work at Fulford Fish house, how fish were processed and shipped, before he went to the service and then fishing on various boats and his own.	Michael Jepson	Thu, 05/13/1993 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Humanities Council, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Maritime Museum	Vanishing Culture Project
J.B. Crawford	This interview with J.B. Crawford was conducted as part of the Cortez Village Voices from the Fisheries Project. This project is a collection of oral histories of Cortez, Florida community members who are involved in maritime activities (such as commercial fishermen, recreational fishermen, crew members, and fish house workers) in order to document the changing face of Cortez Village's marine environment.	Steve Marshall, Christina Package-Ward, Michael Jepson	Thu, 12/20/2012 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	NOAA-NMFS Southeast Regional Office, Manatee School for the Arts, Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez, A.P. Bell Fish Co., Inc., The Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage	Cortez Village Voices from the Fisheries
John Banyas	John Banyas is a fish house owner and fisherman from Cortez, Florida. His grandfather, Neriah Taylor was a boatbuilder in the community. John fishes for mullet and baitfish. He also owns a wholesale/retail seafood shop and restaurant on his property along with a boat haulout facility.	Michael Jepson	Sun, 03/05/2006 - 12:00	Cortez, FL	Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, Florida Humanities Council	In Their Own Words

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