Prize winning quilt by Minnesota quilter Audree L. Sells titled "...And Then Jack's Mother Threw the Magic Beans Out of the Window." From the online collection Quilts and Quiltmaking in America: 1978- 1996. From Minnesota's Local Legacies projects.

Minnesota

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 rich and varied materials from Minnesota that document the diversity of the state's folk traditions. Among its unique recordings are Chippewa songs recorded between 1899 and 1949; folk music of Yugoslavian immigrants; Norwegian and Swedish folk music; African American Baptist services; and Dutch-Russian Mennonite funeral services conducted in English and High German.

• Minnesota Collections of the Archive of Folk Culture [full text]

Minnesota 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 Minnesota's Local Legacies projects

Public Programs

• 1985 "Generation to Generation: Sharing the Intangible" (conference), Southwest State University Library.

Publications

• "Minnesota Logging Camp, 1937" in Folklife Annual 1986. [catalog record]