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Video documentation workshop in leafy green Vermont
We wanted to pass on word of an upcoming video documentation workshop at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. “Discovering Community through Video Documentation” is an intensive four-day workshop...
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Cranberries: biography of the state’s signature fruit
Colleague and fellow folklorist Millie Rahn brings us this guest blog: Steve Cole was introduced to cranberry growing through his great uncle, who spent a lifetime in agriculture in southeastern...
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A Folklorist’s Folklorist: Bess L. Hawes (1921-2009)
. Addressing the American Folklore Society at the 1988 Centennial Meetings, Bess Lomax Hawes told a story about doing fieldwork, the sine qua non of the folklore profession. When she was teaching years...
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Foodways Lectures, Film at Lowell National Historical Park
It’s not every day that someone’s kitchen becomes a museum exhibit. But then again, Julia Child is not your every day cook. When she relocated from Cambrdige to California, her kitchen – the...
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The King (and Prince) of Beans
The reason why we exist is because of pork scrap and Lowell’s famous baked beans. Pork pies. We have a little niche that has kept us in business since 1917. Roger Levasseur, owner of Cote’s Market...
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Getting your fabulous folk content to an online audience
You know you have great content – it’s the folklorist’s stock in trade. But getting your folklore content to an online audience and engaging repeat visitors can be a challenge. Do you have questions...
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Native American Woodlands Folklife Talk by Dana Benner
Curious about the Native peoples who once lived along the banks of the Merrimack River? The Lowell Folklife Series invites you to a talk by Dana Benner on Saturday, November 5 at the Event Center of...
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Polish rosettes for a crowd
Early on the morning of July 25, just days before this year’s Lowell Folk Festival, members and friends of the Lowell Polish Cultural Committee were at the Dom Polski hall on Lakeview Avenue busy...
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“The Beautiful Music All Around Us”
Last week I had the good fortune of introducing Stephen Wade at the Cambridge Forum in Harvard Square. Like an archaeologist revisiting a dig site 75 years later, Wade went back to 13 Southern towns...
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