Essays penned by mid-Atlantic folklorists are currently distributed
to 250 academic and public sector folklorists in the region.
Topics vary widely
from field research on tobacco farming in
southern Maryland to the challenges of sustaining
a folklore program in
nonprofit settings. The Foundation initiated this
series to further the exchange of information and ideas among
folklorists and their peers.
Forum pieces that have an accompanying podcast are indicated with an RSS button.
These
documents are in Word format
| February 2007 |
Kara Rogers Thomas is a Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies at Frostburg State University. Her forum piece, Between Scylla and Charybdis: Charting the Course for a Folklore Hybrid speaks to a tension that lies within many folklorists as they try to balance their many hats. Click here to download Word Document |
| January 2007 |
Bau Graves is Executive Director of the Jefferson Center in Roanoke, Virginia and author of Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community and the Public Purpose... Click
here to download Word Document |
| December 2006 |
Bob Stone is the longstanding statewide Outreach Coordinator for the Florida Folklife Program. This article is a sample of his research on Florida cow dogs... Click
here to download Word Document |
November 2006
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John Lilly, Editor/Folklife Director for West Virginia Division of Culture and History's Goldenseal magazine... Click
here to download Word Document
John Lilly Reads His Shetland Essay in this Special Podcast! |
| October 2006 |
Gerry Milnes, Folk Arts Coordinator,
Augusta Heritage Center, Elkins, WV... Click
here to download Word Document |
| August 2006 |
Varick Chittenden, director of Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, and "retired" (to use the term loosely) Professor Emeritus of English, SUNY Canton College of Technology... Click here to download Word Document |
| July 2006 |
Glenn “Kwabena” Davis was born and raised in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. A storyteller for over thirty years, Glenn continues to offer workshops on the art of storytelling and this month writes about "Storytelling: A Folk Tradition Fighting Back"... Click here to download Word Document |
| June 2006 |
Margaret R. Yocom, a folklorist who specializes in family folklore, oral narrative, material culture, and gender studies writes about "Living Words: Folklorists and Creative Writers"... Click here to download Word Document |
| May 2006 |
Marco Antonio Hernandez heads the group Katari based in Delaware, a group "impassioned" by folk music from Latin America. This is the first forum essay written by a traditional artist.... Click here to download Word Document |
| April 2006 |
Simon Bronner, Professor of American Studies and Folklore at the Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies, PA... Click here to download Word Document |
| March 2006 |
Jon Lohman, Director, Virginia Folklife Program... Click
here to download Word Document |
| March 2006 |
Sally Van de Water, Folklife Program Coordinator, Bayshore Discovery Project, Port Norris, NJ... Click
here to download Word Document |
| February 2006 |
Harold Anderson, Independent Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist, One World Living Art, Greenbelt, MD... Click
here to download Word Document |
| January 2006 |
Laura Botinelli, Deputy
Director, Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, Salisbury, MD... Click
here to download Word Document |
| October 2005 |
Michael Miller, Manager, Delaware Folklife Program... Click
here to download Word Document |
| August 2005 |
Nancy Solomon, Executive Director,
Long Island Traditions, Port Washington, NY... Click
here to download Word Document |
| July 2005 |
Iveta Pirgova, Director of the Down Jersey Folklife
Center... Click
here to download Word Document |
| June 2005 |
Betty Belanus, Education Specialist,
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage... Click
here to download Word Document |
| May 2005 |
Jon Loman, Director, Virginia Folklife Program... Click
here to download Word Document |
| April 2005 |
Terry Liu, Arts Education Specialist,
National Endowment for the Arts... Click
here to download Word Document |
| March 2005 |
Kelly Armor, Folk Art Coordinator and Education Director,
Erie Art Museum... Click
here to download Word Document |
| February 2005 |
Catherine Hiebert Kerst, Folklife
Specialist/Archivist, American Folklife Center, Library
of Congress... Click
here to download Word Document |
| January 2005 |
Carrie & Michael Kline, Independent Folklorists, Talking Across the Lines, WV... Click
here to download Word Document |
