Top of page

Archive: October 2024 (10 Posts)

A man tells a story in a bedroom with a blocked quilt on the bed.

Storytelling Collections on the Folklife Today Podcast

Posted by: Stephen Winick

We're back with another episode of the Folklife Today podcast in which John Fenn and Stephen Winick talk to Hanna Salmon about storytelling and folktale collections in the archive. Of course, we present excerpts and full performances of some great stories too, from storytellers such as Ray Hicks, Connie Regan-Blake, Barbara Freeman, Carmen Agra Deedy, and Tim Tingle. Hanna has created a new cross-collection research guide for the Center, titled "Folktales and Oral Storytelling: Resources in the American Folklife Center Collections." In this blog post, we provide links to the new podcast episode, to Hanna’s guide, to the full performances we excerpted for the podcast, and to web resources on the storytellers we featured.