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Maine Folklife, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
It's nice to be able to report good news — very good news, indeed — to all of you who have supported the Maine Folklife Center in recent years, and to those of you who have supported us even longer when we were just the Northeast Archives. We learned late in the Spring that a new budget had been appropriated by the University Administration that would provide support for staff salaries and a modest operating budget.
With this kind of support, Sandy and I are very excited about the prospects for the coming year, and for what this kind of …
Maine Folklife, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
As you are undoubtedly aware, Sandy has operated the Archives on a shoe-string (sometimes almost no-string) budget for nearly forty years. Howevever, with the help of some well-thought-out grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, some smaller grants from foundations, and donations from our members, he and his staff have been able to turn out some pretty good projects (some of them award-winning) including videos: "An Oral Historian's Work," "Woodsmen and River Drivers," thirty-two volumes of Northeast Folklore, and four cassettes of the Maine Traditional Music Radio Program series.