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The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife." The Center incorporates the Archive
of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world.
Collections
The collections of the American Folklife Center include a wide variety
of materials from the New England region. Among its recordings are interviews
with migrant workers who worked in Connecticut's tobacco
fields in the 1940s and 1950s; and the Helen Hartness Flanders and Eloise
Hubbard
Linscott collections of the folk music of New England. There are also American
Dialect Society recordings from the early 1930s.
Connecticut participated in the Library's Bicentennial Local Legacies
project, which includes documentation of local traditions and celebrations
for the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture.
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Field Research Projects
- 1986-87 Connecticut Folklife Survey, which contributed to the creation of
the position of Connecticut State Folk Arts Coordinator, located at the Institute
of Community Research in
Hartford.
Consultancies
- 1992 Consultant to the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, and participant
in a public symposium at the Center.
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