Carrington Doolittle Pertalion, a Certified Nurse Midwife from Boone, North Carolina, tells folklorist Josephine McRobbie how she transitioned from working as in commercial fishing to midwifery and the challenges and rewards of her careers during an interview for McRobbie’s Occupational Folklife Project on “Midwives, Doulas and Birth Workers in North Carolina.”

Dr. Mark Harris, a clinical anesthesiologist in Salt Lake City, Utah, talks with folklorist Lisa Gabbert about his job and how he and his colleagues use humor as a coping mechanism to ease stress and anxieties in interactions with his patients as part of her Occupational Folklife Project on “Doctoring: The Occupational Folklore of Physicians.”

Diane Imrie, a registered dietician and hospital nutritionist who works as Director of Nutrition at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vermont, talks about why she loves her job and with folklorist Andy Kolovos for Vermont Folklife Center’s excellent Occupational Folklife Project on “Grass-Roots Agriculture in Vermont.”

Nurse practitioner Dr. Tracie Lavette Augusta of Memphis, Tennessee, talks with Archie Green Fellow Carmen Vaughn-Hewitt about her experiences as a nurse practitioner running her own practice, other nursing jobs she has worked throughout her career, the health of Black America, and her passion for holistic health as part of the Occupational Folklife Project “African American Nurses: The Chi Eta Phi Sorority.”

Patrick Palmer, the owner-operator of Thornapple Farm and Draft Trash in New Haven, Vermont, talks about his horse-based trash collecting business with documentarian Virgina Nickerson for the Occupational Folklife Project’s “Trash Talk: Workers in Vermont’s Waste Management Industry.”

Bill Favaro, who, with his brother Sam is the owner and proprietor of Favaro’s Rod & Reel Repair Shop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, talks with folklorist Douglas Manger about how his business developed during the 1940s when Mr. Favaros’ father–(Hypolite Favaro, Sr.) –sold fishing rods and other fishing related items at his Esso gas station. He was interviewed for the Occupational Folklife Project Baton Rouge Small Businesses and Trades.

Juan Salcido Sanchez, who like his father before him, works behind-the-scenes at leading racetracks throughout the United States as a groom and caretaker for elite racehorses, talks with folklorist Ellen McHale at the Palm Meadows Training Facility in Boynton Beach, Florida, as part of her Occupational Folklife Project “Stable Views–Voices and Stories from the Thoroughbred Racetrack.”

Alison Smith, founder and director of Addi’s Eats Pet Food and Supply Pantry, a food bank that assists pets and their care givers in Bismark, North Dakota, speaks with documentarians Margaret Mary Miles and Catherine ten Broeke as part of their Occupational Folklife Project “Homeless Shelter Workers in the Upper Midwest.”