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Posted by: Stephen Winick
This is the third in a series of posts about folklife related to the Virginia Opossum, the only marsupial native to the United States. Find the series here! In 1910, Maggie Pogue Johnson, an African American woman from Virginia, published a dialect poem about classic African American cuisine, or what we would today call “soul food.” …
Posted by: Stephanie Hall
In the Homegrown Plus series, we present Homegrown concerts that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post. (Find the whole series here!) We’re continuing the series with a concert and oral history with Ara Dinkjian and the Zulal trio. In May 2015 Ara Dinkjian, a master of the oud, …
Posted in: Armenian Americans, Folk Music, Folksong, Homegrown Plus
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This is the second in a series of posts about folklife related to the Virginia Opossum, the only marsupial native to the United States. (Find the whole series here!) The first post looked at the history of the phrase “Awesome Possum.” Future posts will look at songs, stories, and foodways related to the animal. But …
Posted by: Megan Harris
The following is a guest post by 2019 Junior Fellows Kim Windham and Patricia Glaser, who worked with the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. As a community-driven archive where all veterans’ histories are valued, the Veterans History Project (VHP) has collected more than 110,000 veterans’ narratives of their time in service. All of these collections …
Posted in: African American History, African Americans, Oral History, Veterans History Project, World War II
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This is the first of a series of blog posts celebrating Didelphis virginiana, commonly known as the North American opossum. (Find the whole series here!) This cat-sized nocturnal animal is the only new world marsupial that lives north of Mexico, and therefore the only marsupial native to the United States. In most American dialects of …
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
Our journey in the Folklife at the International Level series last took us to long-established East Asian “Living Human Treasures” programs for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH). As discussed, during the 1990s, UNESCO recommended to Member States that they adopt similar systems of subsidizing (or, at the least, officially recognizing) people in their own territories …
Posted in: Bess Lomax Hawes, Cultural Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage, WIPO
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Episode Ten of the Folklife Today Podcast is ready for listening! Find it at this page on the Library’s website, or on iTunes, or with your usual podcatcher. Get your podcast here! In this episode, John Fenn and I discuss children’s songs, and in particular “Ring Around the Rosie.” In the course of the show, we …
Posted by: Megan Harris
The following is a guest post by Patricia Glaser, a Junior Fellow working with the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. They told us to be careful with our equipment and our clothing when we went to bed that night– be sure to fasten the mosquito netting. Not only to keep out the mosquitos but …
Posted in: African American History, African Americans, Veterans History Project, World War II
Posted by: Stephen Winick
In the Homegrown Plus series, we present Homegrown concerts that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post. Find the whole series here! We’re continuing the series with John Cohen and the Down Hill Strugglers performing Treasures From the Archive Roadshow. John Cohen is a founding member of the New …
Posted in: Folk Music, Homegrown Plus, John Cohen, Old Time Music