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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 21, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The Maine Folklife Survey finished up its 18-month stint here at the Northeast Archives with a great deal of good work done and several products available for school and community use. We have enclosed in this issue of the Newsletter the brochure, with ordering information, for two photographic exhibits and a slide-tape show entitled Maine's Folklife. This slide show illustrates folk art, horse-pulling, folk architecture, and coastal life as it occurs in Maine. This 80-image slide show has a tape running under 30 minutes.

...Another major product of the Maine Folklife Survey is a publication, The Maine Folklife Index: Resources …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 30, No. 3, Charles A. Stevenson, Robert P. Stevenson, Mac E. Barrick, William Munro, William T. Parsons, Donald E. Byrne Jr.

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Good Life on Grandfather's Farm
• The Folklore of Local History
• Pennsylvania-Palatinate Informal Folk Cultural Exchanges
• Maria Assunta: Berwick's Italian Religious Festival
• Aldes un Neies / Old & New

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 20, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

This statement by Sandy Ives at a meeting of the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Orono, Maine, February, 1981.

"I have no desire either to tilt windmills on the one hand or to defend the obvious on the other, yet I will risk both to make a simple plea not so much for greater breadth as for greater depth in support for the arts, for reaching out to help more people celebrate what it is in life that touches them and moves them to create significant forms that can be shared with others. I am not talking …