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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Ozark Studies Institute at Missouri State University looks to study the culture of the Ozarks and the people who inhabit the area. This website provides content on the Jews in the Ozarks, folk festivals in the area, as well as information on the Ozark Plateaus and the various collections they have for research.
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Subject: Folk Festivals , Post-Secondary Education, Ethnography, Religion, Regional Ethnonology, Regional Identity, Research Institutes
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Rose Center Council for the Arts is an organization that is based out of the Rose Center and focuses on folk artists and their works. This center used to be a school and has become the cultural center for Morristown and Hamblen County, Tennessee. The organization puts on a major festival entitled Mount Makins Festival, which focuses on folk arts such as painting, storytelling, and sewing. The Rose Center also houses galleries that feature local artists and folk artists and the exhibits include painting, photography, and student art.
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Subject: Folk Festivals , Education, Photography, Painting, Performing Arts Center, Storytelling, Folk Artists, Performing Arts Centers, City Centers, Dance
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum was created by Ferrum College in the early 1970s to document, interpret, and represent the folk heritage of the Blue Ridge region. The Institute enjoys a national reputation and puts on festivals, concerts, and exhibits as well as produces publications. The Institute puts on major programming including: The Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, BRI Museum Exhibits, the Blue Ridge Farm Museum, and The Blue Ridge Heritage Archives. The audience of this institute spans all ages and backgrounds and seeks to expand its work throughout Virginia and Appalachia but still focuses on the western portion of the state.
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Subject: Folk Festivals , Archives, Folk Music, Historical museums, Folklife Archives, Folk Art, Folk Museums
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Jubilee Community Arts seeks to preserve and present the traditional arts of the Southern Appalachians. The organizations defined mission is “to promote, preserve and present the performing arts of the Southern region and to nurture the cultural milieu responsible for the birth and evolution of these and related art forms”.
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Subject: Archives, Research, Radio, Folk Festivals , Education, Folk Art Museums, Folk Art, Concerts, Concert Halls
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Philadelphia Folksong Society is dedicated to serving the past, promoting the present and securing the future of folk music and related forms of expression through education, presentation, and participation. This organization was founded in 1957 and offers programs of presentation, engagement, and education throughout Greater Philadelphia and the nation. Many of these programs are focused on the present of folk music and the education around it. Philadelphia Folksong Society promotes and stages the following festivals of note: The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Fall Fling, Spring Thing, and Cabin Fever Festival.
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Subject: Folk Music, Folk Festivals , Education, Music Education, Music Festivals
Creator: Philadelphia Folksong Society
Publisher: Philadelphia Folksong Society
Language: English
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Tuckerton Seaport looks to preserve, present and interpret the rich maritime history, artistry, heritage and environment of the Jersey short and the unique contributions of its baymen. The Tuckerton Seport has evolved into a maritime village located along the historic Tuckerton Creek in Tuckerton, New Jersey. This 40-acre site includes historic and recreated buildings connected by a boardwalk, a maritime forest and wetlands nature trail. The Tuckerton Seport looks to expand education on the Tuckerton Seaport by providing exhibits about the past of this place, folk art education programs, and looks to expand awareness about the folklife of the area with the Jersey Shore Folklife Center.
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Subject: Folklife, New Jersey, Tuckerton Seaport (Tuckerton, N.J.), Museums, Learning Activities, Education, Folk Festivals
Creator: Tuckerton Seaport and Bayman's Museum
Publisher: Tuckerton Seaport and Bayman's Museum
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Maine Folklife Center, sponsored by the University of Maine, looks to promote, preserve, research, teach about, engage communities, and provide public programming in the vernacular arts and culture of Maine and the Maritime Provinces. The Folklife Center also offers a Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History that looks to preserve the oral histories of those who have lived in this area of Maine as well as artifacts of the culture that exists there. The Folklife Center also provides students at University of Maine with an opportunity to complete a minor concentration in folklore and provides them with hands on experience of research.
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Subject: Folk Life, Research, Folk Festivals , Preservation, Post-Secondary Education, Folklife Archives, Oral Histories
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