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American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project
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COVID Recollections: New Collection of 25 COVID-19 Interviews with Childcare Workers in Appalachia, Now Available Online
Published: March 11, 2025 12:00
In this post, the American Folklife Center announces the online publication of a new interview collection from the COVID-19 American History Project—It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers’ COVID-19 Experiences. The collection…
Come Josephine, In My Flying Machine: Women of Aviation
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/03/come-josephine-in-my-flying-machine-women-of-aviation/
Published: March 10, 2025 14:00
The American Folklife Center shares the stories of female pilots and women who worked in the aviation field in honor of the 15th annual Women in Aviation Worldwide Week (March 3-9, 2025).
A Shantyman’s Farewell
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/01/a-shantymans-farewell/
Published: January 31, 2025 14:42
In this post, we hear one last farewell shanty from the retired sailor Patrick Tayluer, who sang and told stories for the Archive of Folk Culture in 1942. The song tells the romantic tale of a sailor weighing anchor to leave for the port city of Rio…
Henry Alsberg: A New Deal Life
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/01/henry-alsberg-a-new-deal-life/
Published: January 28, 2025 11:00
Guest author Sue Rubenstein DeMasi is an academic librarian, professor emeritus at Suffolk County Community College in New York and dramatic writer and journalist. Professor DeMasi is the author of several publications on Henry Alsberg, Director of the New…
A Stitch in Time
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/01/a-stitch-in-time/
Published: January 24, 2025 21:12
Though primarily an audio-visual archive, the American Folklife Center is also home to several examples of traditional and folk crafts, such as a handmade notebook of sewing examples, made by Elsie Reinhart sometime between 1890-1920 and donated to the…
The American Folklife Center: 2024 Year in Review
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/01/the-american-folklife-center-2024-year-in-review/
Published: January 22, 2025 18:12
In this post, Nicole Saylor, Director of the American Folklife Center (AFC), highlights the 2024 accomplishments of the AFC. The post demonstrates how 2024 was a busy and productive year for the American Folklife Center, as it continued to meet its mission…
Community Collections Grant: Los Pleneros de la 21 and Documenting Bomba and Plena Musicians in the Diaspora
Published: January 10, 2025 14:00
In 2024, Los Pleneros de la 21--a NYC-based organization whose members specialize in teaching and performing the Puerto Rican musical genres of bomba and plena--were awarded with a Community Collections Grant (CCG) by the American Folklife Center, to…
Carrying the Mail: Honoring the Resilience of the 6888th Postal Battalion
Published: January 1, 2025 16:11
As we stand at the threshold of a new year, it’s a fitting time to reflect on the remarkable stories of those who came before us, especially the courageous women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, highlighted in Tyler Perry’s recent Netflix…
Like a Snap of a Carrot: Shipwreck Stories with Patrick Tayluer
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/12/shipwreck-stories-with-patrick-tayluer/
Published: December 30, 2024 18:59
When William Main Doerflinger interviewed the retired sailor and shanty singer Patrick Tayluer in April, 1942, one of the topics he asked Tayluer about was shipwrecks. This is not surprising: ever since people took to the seas in ships, maritime folks have…
Handmade and Heartfelt: Traditional Crafts
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/12/handmade-and-heartfelt-traditional-crafts/
Published: December 23, 2024 23:09
In an attempt to inspire herself and others to finish handmade gifts for the holidays, Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas takes readers on a quick tour of hand-crafted items documented in the Center’s field survey collections.