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Archive: August 2024 (5 Posts)

Graphic shows a farm, a factory, an American flag, and the words "America Works" and "LOC Podcasts."

Now Available: The Sixth Season of the America Works Podcast — featuring food!

Posted by: Douglas D. Peach

The American Folklife Center (AFC) has launched the sixth season of the America Works podcast. This season focuses on food and the individuals who grow, harvest, prepare food, as well as those who feed other Americans. Each episode is an excerpt from a longer interview, conducted as part of the AFC's Occupational Folklife Project. In this post, Dr. Nancy Groce details the new season and it's eight episodes.

Outdoor, COVID-19 dining shed being taken down.

End of a (COVID) Era: Dining Sheds Disappear from New York City Streets

Posted by: Douglas D. Peach

During the COVID-19 pandemic, dining sheds--outdoor seating areas at dining establishments, theorized as “pandemic folk architecture”--were a mainstay of New York City's restaurants. In this post, Senior Folklife Specialist Nancy Groce reflects on the ephemeral nature of this foodways tradition, as dining sheds are now disappearing from the city's restaurants.

Euro-American man holding a slice of Tillamook-brand cheese.

New Occupational Folklife Project Documents “Tillamook: Cheesemakers in Coastal Oregon”

Posted by: Douglas D. Peach

The American Folklife Center recently posted a new collection of interviews with workers at the Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA), a farmer-owned dairy cooperative in coastal Oregon, to its Occupational Folklife Project website. This post is an interview with Dr. Jared Schmidt, a public folklorist based in Oregon, who conducted the interviews with TCCA workers. In 2021, Schmidt received an Archie Green Fellowship from the American Folklife Center to undertake this research.

Los Herederos, a 2023 Community Collections Grant Recipient, Opens Exhibit in New York City Subway Station

Posted by: Douglas D. Peach

In this post, Nancy Groce (Senior Folklife Specialist, American Folklife Center) highlights a new exhibition organized by Los Herederos -- a 2023 recipient of a Community Collections Grant (CCG) from the American Folklife Center -- that celebrates the cultural diversity of Queens, New York.