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April Fools on the Folklife Today Podcast

Posted by: Stephen Winick

As you may have figured out, our previous post about having discovered the origin of all folklore everywhere was an April Fools’ Day practical joke.  If you followed the link to the podcast, you actually heard about the roots of the April Fools’ Day tradition.  This post is to set the record straight! Episode six …

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Cutting the Tension – VHP Narrators’ Cracks, Jokes and Quips

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

The following is a guest blog post by Owen Rogers, Liaison Specialist for the Veterans History Project (VHP). Among VHP’s oral histories, memoirs and correspondence, we frequently find humorous anecdotes about jokes, pranks and creative punishments. This post began as an “April Fools” ruse developed from some of the more absurd scenarios recounted by veterans …