Forms of Folklife

Architecture

• Loghomes: http://www.aca-dla.org/site-templates/logessay.html

 Arts and crafts

• Quilting with Children

• Betty Reynolds' Quilting Page

• Quilts at Linlee Elementary

Celebrations

• Folklife Celebration, Henderson, KY  

• Northwest Folklife

• Nuestra Música 2006: Latino Chicago

• Blue Ridge Institute and Museum Festival and Events 

• Kentucky Local Legacies 

Children’s rhymes and songs

• Occupational Songs 1

• Occupational Songs 2

Dance

• Glossary of Dance Terms

• Kentucky Running Set

• Longways sets #1

• Longways sets #2

• Square Dancing

• History of Square Dancing

• Demonstrations of dance steps

Games

• Children's Folk Games

Foodways

• General Overview  

• Pepperoni Rolls - food for miners

• Apple pealing

• Cat Head Biscuits

• Our Immigrant and Native Ancestors: Southern food evolved from many ethnic influences

• Key Ingredients: America by Food

Jargon and sayings

• Appalachian Expressions

• Smoking Mountain dialect

• Southern dialect

Jokes

• Appalachian Humor

Medicine

• Folk Medicine

• Mountain Remedies

• Folk Medicine

Music

• Short History of Appalachian Music

• The Mountain Dulcimer

• The Hammered Dulcimer

• The Fiddle

• The Banjo

• Appalachia Performers

• What is Bluegrass Music?

Proverbs and riddles

• Proverbs

Stories

• Jack Tales and Folklore

• Storytelling

• Granny Was a Ghost Buster 

• The Face that Wasn't  

• A Locust's Serenade 

• Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans

• The Moonlit Road - Ghost Stories and Folktales of the American South

• Ghost Stories of North Carolina 

• Appalachian Storytelling 

• American Folklore

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