Category: Oregon

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

August 29, 2024

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.

Posted in: America Works, Asian Americans, Foodways, German Americans, New York, Occupational Folklife Project, Ohio, Oregon

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

August 21, 2024

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.

Posted in: Fieldwork, Foodways, Occupational Folklife Project, Oral History, Oregon, Uncategorized, Wisconsin