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Posted by: Meg Nicholas
The American Folklife Center marks National Lobster Day by sharing collections of lobstermen oral histories, photographs of the Aquidneck Lobster Company, and lobster recipes found in its archive.
Posted in: Collection Highlight, Foodways
Posted by: Meg Nicholas
Earlier this year, I had the chance to delve through the fieldnotes from the Pinelands Folklife Project for a post celebrating American Wetlands Month. I used a number of quotes from these accounts, but there were many more that I wanted to highlight and didn’t have space for. The prose – some humorous, some profound, …
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Posted by: Meg Nicholas
This fourth and final entry in the Dog Days of August series puts a spin on the topic and looks at another member of the Canidae family that can be found in the American Folklife Center's collections.
Posted in: Animals, Collection Highlight, Dog Days of August
Posted by: Meg Nicholas
This third installment of a month-long series featuring photographs of dogs from the American Folklife Center highlights the playful (and snoozing) pups whose pictures can be found throughout the Center's archival collections.
Posted in: Animals, Collection Highlight, Dog Days of August
Posted by: Meg Nicholas
The second entry in a month-long series on the Dog Days of August, highlighting American Folklife Center collections items featuring "man's best friend," this post presents the story of war dog Lucky, who served with the United States Marine Corps in WWII, alongside photographs of other dogs found in collections in the Veterans History Project.
Posted in: Animals, Collection Highlight, Dog Days of August, Veterans History Project
Posted by: Meg Nicholas
The first entry in a month-long series on the Dog Days of August, highlighting American Folklife Center collections items featuring "man's best friend," this post presents audio recordings and photographs about dogs at work.
Posted in: Animals, Collection Highlight, Dog Days of August
Posted by: Meg Nicholas
For International Clown Week, AFC Folklife Specialist (and former clown) Meg Nicholas guides readers through the types of clowns found in the American Folklife Center's archival collections.
Posted in: clowns, Collection Highlight
Posted by: Meg Nicholas
This post is an excerpt of a longer interview with Alex Lumelsky, COO and Creative Director for the Chaldean News, about the 2024 Community Collections Grant (CCG) project, Chaldeans: Portrait of an Evolving Community. The excerpt links to the original post on the Library's Of the People: Widening the Path blog.
Posted in: Community Collections Grants
Posted by: Meg Nicholas
The National Day of the Cowboy is coming up soon (the fourth Saturday of July), prompting me to go sifting through the archive for collection items to highlight. The national day officially began in 2008, when the National Day of the Cowboy resolution passed in both the Senate and the House, though there had been …
Posted in: Collection Highlight, Cowboy and Western Music, Cowboys, Montana, Nevada