AFC Events Specialist Thea Austen and Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas chat with Queen Nur and AJ Rivers about the CCG project, "On the Line: Urban Line Dancing," and their wildly popular public event held at the Library earlier this year. The post includes photographs from the projects, and a link to the full interview, in the fourth episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.
AFC Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas chats with Laura Grant, from the CCG project, "Returning to Our Roots: Traditional Nuwa Harvests." The post includes photographs from the project, interview excerpts, and a link to the full interview, in the third episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.
AFC Folklife Specialists Nancy Groce and Meg Nicholas chat with Neil Mellen and Modesta Yangmog, from the CCG project, "Warp and Weft of Yap's Outer Islands: Backstrap Weaving in Micronesia." The post includes photographs from the project, interview excerpts, and a link to the full interview, in the second episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.
In this post, AFC Folklife Specialists Michelle Stefano and Meg Nicholas chat with Tameshia Rudd-Ridge and Jourdan Brunson, from the Community Collections Grant project "If Tenth Street Could Talk." The post includes photographs from the project, interview excerpts, and a link to the full interview, in the first episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.
In celebration of National Barbecue Month, AFC Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas turns to the Center's archival collections for inspiration and insight on what makes for the best barbecue.
Readers are encouraged to take a virtual road trip through AFC's digital collections in celebration of National Road Trip Day, observed on the Friday before the Memorial Day Weekend.
In the concluding half of a two-part blog series, AFC Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas unpacks some of the contradictions between a true-crime oral history and the historical record, and reveals the eventual outcome of the trial.
In this entry of Folklife Today, a casual listen to a lesser-known AFC collection quickly morphs into a twisty exploration of a centuries-old murder case, its ties to a regional folk drink, and some of the challenges encountered when working with oral histories. This entry is the first in a two-part series.
