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Patrick Tayluer on the Art and Origin of Sea Shanties
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/10/patrick-tayluer-on-the-art-and-origin-of-sea-shanties/
Published: October 9, 2024 22:10
This is the third in a series of blog posts looking at the sea shanties, songs, and stories sung and told by retired sailor Patrick Tayluer for collector William Main Doerflinger in 1942. Many lovers of sea shanties have heard of Patrick Tayluer through…
By the People: Help Transcribe the AFC’s Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection!
Published: October 7, 2024 12:00
The American Folklife Center announces the launch of the Chicago 1977: People, Places, and Cultures transcription campaign, as part of the Library of Congress By the People volunteer transcription initiative, and based on the Center's Chicago Ethnic Arts…
Fiona Ritchie’s Thistle and Shamrock Signs Off
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/10/fiona-ritchies-thistle-and-shamrock-signs-off/
Published: October 4, 2024 14:30
With gratitude and best wishes, the American Folklife Center notes that on September 30, 2024, after more than 40 years on the air, our longtime friend and colleague Fiona Ritchie ended her successful and influential weekly public radio program “The…
Storytelling Collections on the Folklife Today Podcast
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/10/storytelling-collections-on-the-folklife-today-podcast/
Published: October 2, 2024 16:53
We're back with another episode of the Folklife Today podcast in which John Fenn and Stephen Winick talk to Hanna Salmon about storytelling and folktale collections in the archive. Of course, we present excerpts and full performances of some great stories…
Coffee: “America’s Necessary Drink”
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/09/coffee-americas-necessary-drink/
Published: September 30, 2024 22:12
On the day after National Coffee Day, AFC Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas chases down references to the popular caffeinated drink in the Center’s archival collections.
Andrea Kitta on Conspiracy Theories: Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus
Published: September 27, 2024 14:06
In a recent lecture in our Benjamin A. Botkin Lecture Series, Conspiracy Theories, Folklore and Belief: Birds Aren't Real, Loch Ness Monsters and Microchips, folklorist Andrea Kitta discussed some definitions of conspiracy theories and how they fit into…
All the World Loves a Lobster
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/09/all-the-world-loves-a-lobster/
Published: September 25, 2024 13:00
The American Folklife Center marks National Lobster Day by sharing collections of lobstermen oral histories, photographs of the Aquidneck Lobster Company, and lobster recipes found in its archive.
American Folklife Center Acquires Collection of Tom Pich—Renowned Photographer of Traditional Artists
Published: September 23, 2024 17:51
The American Folklife Center recently acquired the collection of Tom Pich—an acclaimed photographer of traditional artists. Pich is best known for his photographs of recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship—the nation's highest honor in the…
COVID Recollections: Now Available – First Collection of Frontline Worker Interviews from the COVID-19 American History Project
Published: September 20, 2024 13:30
The first interviews documented for the COVID-19 American History Project--an initiative of the American Folklife Center to create an archival collection of Americans' experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic--are now available in the online collections of…
Patrick Tayluer: The Man Behind the Sea Shanties
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/09/patrick-tayluer-the-man-behind-the-sea-shanties/
Published: September 18, 2024 13:24
"These should rank with the best shanty and sea-song recordings ever made." So said the sea shanty expert William Main Doerflinger in May, 1942, describing the recordings he had recently made of the retired sailor Patrick Tayluer. Circumstances have…