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“People are going to be like, ‘Are there even that many black female banjo players?’ Yes.”
The city of Verona has discovered more dough than woe in the tale of these fictional “star-crossed lovers,” with two million visitors descending each year.
My mother saved 439 letters for each day they were separated, August 1944 through November 1945.
In 1950, the Bureau of Indian Affairs opened the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, sixty miles north of Salt Lake City.
The Pocahontas Reframed: Storytellers Film Festival opens November 15 in Richmond, Virginia.
El director emérito de Smithsonian Folkways comparte historias, fotos y videos de su trabajo de campo en Chile, que coincidió con el golpe de estado de Pinochet.
Smithsonian Folkways director emeritus shares stories, photos, and videos from his field work in Chile, which coincided with Pinochet’s coup d’état.
Now the Workhouse Arts Center, the facility does not stand in spite of its past, but because of it.
Folklife Magazine explores how culture shapes our lives. We publish stories about music, food, craft, language, celebrations, activism, and the individuals and communities who sustain these traditions.