Jennifer Cutting of the Library’s American Folklife Center talks about the origins of May Day and its celebration. We have temporarily put that video on the front page of our relatively new YouTube channel.
Well, this is a day that has been a long time in coming. The Library of Congress has been working for several months now so that we could “do YouTube right.” When you’re the stewards of the world’s largest collection of audiovisual materials (some 6 million films, broadcasts and sound recordings), nothing less would be …