Graciela Santiago performs at the Mexican Fiesta in Finney County, 1999. Photo courtesy of Finney County Convention and Tourist Bureau. Part of the documentation in Kansas's Local Legacies projects.

Kansas

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 contain materials from Kansas that document the diversity of the state's folk traditions. Among its unique recordings are folklore and reminiscences of Kansas Mennonites and old-time fiddle music. Other Kansas recordings range from blues to mariachi music, from gospel to Croatian tamburitza music.

• Kansas Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture [full text]

Kansas 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.

• View Kansas's Local Legacies projects

Consultancies

• 1990 Consultant to Folklife Institute of Central Kansas, and presenter at Bethany College, Lindsborg.