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From the Director

Oct 01, 2007; McHale, Ellen ... "Voices of Belief: Folklore and the Sacred Arts" is the topic of this year's New York Folklore Society Field Trip, which will be held in Poughkeepsie from Friday, November 2, to Sunday, November 4. The conference will explore the intersections of religious belief and experience with the folk ...

Anthropology 300: Creating a Quilt Community at Syracuse University

Oct 01, 2007; Wadley, Susan S ... I can't say why I chose it. Maybe it was because [it was] a one-day, nighttime class. Maybe it was because the title seemed so odd amid names like "Intro to Psychology" and "Biology Lab." What I do know is that something called to me when I read "Quilts and Community" in Syracuse University's ...

Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway

Oct 01, 2007; Chittenden, Varick A ... My memories of Kitty Carlisle Hart go back to my teenage years, when flickering images on a black-and-white television set first brought her-as a celebrity panelist on the game show To Tell the Truth-into my family's living room in the North Country. Her glamorous looks, aristocratic bearing, ...

City under Siege-and How Place Dollars Could Save It

Oct 01, 2007; Zeitlin, Steve ... The skeletal remains of CBGB's famous red awning-just the spokes-still protrude from the birthplace of punk rock on 2nd Avenue. No flowers or memorials are left on the street, as when punk rockers memorialized Joey Ramone outside the club in 2001. There's no time to mourn for CBGB, because other ...

Humor, History, and Tall Tales: Rereading the Adirondack College Student

Oct 01, 2007; Andermatt, Andrew Shawn ... At the end of summer some things are .zl constant in the Adirondacks: tourists depart, leaves begin to change color, and local community college professors sit at their desks reading hundreds of "what I did over summer vacation" and "why marijuana should be legalized" essays. Teachers constantly ...

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... New Publication The Institute for Cultural Partnerships (ICP), in partnership with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), announces The Art of Community: Creativity at the Crossroads of Immigrant Cultures and Social Services. The new publication presents five ...

MISS FOGARTY'S CHRISTMAS CAKE

Oct 01, 2007; Ransom, Stanley A ... On a trip to Vermont with folklorist I. Sheldon "Shelley" Posen, I first heard the song "Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake," sung by performer Mick Moloney. I subsequently purchased his CD, called Uncommon Bonds (1993), and learned the song from it. Later on, when I sang the song at a local nursing ...

The Flint Sisters: Making Do

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Arlouene, Gladys, and Lunamae Flint were born in the mid-1920s to Roy and Daisy Berry Flint and raised in Pike, New York. They grew up on the family dairy farm that their father had inherited in rural Wyoming County, where they also helped their mother tend to more than a thousand chickens ....

The Scent of a Ghost

Oct 01, 2007; Tucker, Libby ... In English literature and oral tradition, ghosts usually announce their presence through sight, sound, and touch. Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, for example, has a rich array of sensory cues heralding the appearance of spirits , including bells ringing, chains clanking, and apparitions ...

Here Was New York: Memorial Images of the Twin Towers

Oct 01, 2007; Turner, Kay ... To mark the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, BAC Folk Arts mounted an exhibition, "Here Was New York: Memorial Images of the Twin Towers," in eleven Brooklyn galleries from September 7-30, 2006. Consisting of 350 photographic images by 175 photographers, the exhibit was an homage and a ...

It Wouldn't Be Easter in Buffalo without Butter Lambs

Oct 01, 2007; Ekfelt, Lynn Case ... Buffalo's Broadway Market is a mere shadow of its former self since the Polish community has migrated from downtown to Cheektowaga. Now the endless rows of stalls selling baked goods, vegetables, and meat to ladies with market baskets over their arms have shrunk to just a few. But there's one ...

Story: A Handbook

Oct 01, 2007; Tucker, Libby ... Story: A Handbook, by Jacqueline S. Thursby. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2006. 184 pages, introduction, photographs, glossary, web resources, index, $55.00 cloth. All of us who love folk narratives should welcome the publication of Jacqueline S. Thursby's Story: A Handbook ....

Indian Folktales from Mauritius

Oct 01, 2007; Marvin, Lee-Ellen ... Indian Folktales from Mauritius, translated and edited by Dawood Auleear and Lee Haring. Chenai, India: National Folklore Support Centre, 2006.117 pages, $10.00 paper (purchase directly from www.indianfolklore.org). Indian Folktales from Mauritius, translated and edited by Dawood Auleear ...

The Remains of the Game

Oct 01, 2007; Thorn, John ... Conventionally understood as historical linguistics, philology is close kin with folklore. Practitioners of both will rake the embers of bygone days looking for traces of what fired the customs of present times, but where students of language are content to identify the remains, folklorists tend ...

From the Editor

Oct 01, 2007; McMahon, Felicia Faye ... In 2000 the New York Folklore Society bunched a new magazine format, Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore. The purpose of this transformation from the previous journal, New York Folklore, was to provide a forum for the widest representation of the state's many voices through accessible ...

The Late Tradition in Culture

Oct 01, 2007; Van Buren, Tom ... Last spring, I was invited to present a lecture about the late style of John Coltrane during a session of an interdisciplinary seminar at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The seminar was focused on the idea of late style, as discussed in theorist Edward Said's posthumous book of ...

Janis Benincasa

Oct 01, 2007; Condon, Eileen ... Janis Benincasa declares she will never forgive fellow folklorist Mary Zwolinski for calling her one of the funniest people she ever met. Mary nominated Janis for "In Praise of Women" because Janis is brilliant, Mary asserted, and was Mary's first mentor in the field in New York in the 1980s ....

"It's a Very Dynamic Moose": Narrative, Creativity, and Memory in a Traditional Art

Oct 01, 2007; Kitta, Andrea ... "Psychedelic Moose" is a crocheted afghan made up of twenty different squares with different themes. Each block is one foot square, making the overall size of the blanket five feet by four feet. Each crocheted square forms a background for a moose that is cross-stitched on it. Each moose, while ...

Oral Culture and History Today: Joanne Shenandoah and Jack W. Gladstone

Oct 01, 2007; Rosekrans, Linda ... Between Earth and Sky-You will hear me. Between Earth and Sky-You'll dance beside me. I am the wind-I am the water-I am your Son-I am your daughter. And will they listen to the stories-will they hear our ancestors call? Will they realize what we've sacrificed to ...