Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia: Ravioli and Sauce with Lou Maiuri
Lou Maiuri, 92, is the son of Italian immigrants who arrived in West Virginia in the early 1900s. "Italians are big on food," Lou says from his basement cellar, where the shelves are lined with preserved peppers, canned beans, and a family-recipe pasta sauce he's been making for 70 years. Mike and Amy often find themselves exploring Italian-American foodways in West Virginia in places...
Contributor:
Maiuri, Lou
Date:2021-09-15
Film, Video
Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia: Turkish Cuisine with Mehmet Öztan
In the small mountain community of Reedsville in northern West Virginia, sits a farm where hundreds of varieties of heirloom seeds are preserved, but relatively few of these varieties are known as Appalachian heirlooms; they're mostly Turkish seeds from Mehmet Öztan's home country. Mehmet, who is the owner of Two Seeds in a Pod Heirloom Seed Company, and is a teaching artist in the...
Contributor:
Öztan, Mehmet
Date:2021-09-15
Film, Video
Open a Book, Open the World: 2021 National Book Festival
Watch the introduction to the 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival and its exciting lineup of authors, poets and writers in a one-hour special from PBS with hosts LeVar Burton and Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. This program will offer a timely celebration of the power of books and discussions on some of the big topics of the day.
Contributor:
Burton, Levar - Hayden, Carla D.
Date:2021-09-12
Film, Video
Homegrown: Windborne
Windborne is Lynn Mahoney Rowan, Will Thomas Rowan, Lauren Breunig, and Jeremy Carter-Gordon. The four singers grew up immersed in the traditional song and dance communities of New England and discovered a love of world folk music in their teens. For their concert at the American Folklife Center, they will be performing work related songs from Library collections from a variety of traditions in...
Contributor:
Rowan, Lynn Mahoney - Rowan, Will Thomas - Carter-Gordon, Jeremy - Breunig, Lauren
Date:2021-09-08
Film, Video
Pillars of Democracy: The Presidency
The John W. Kluge Center, with the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, hosts the Pillars of Democracy series to explore how institutions should work in a functioning society, and grapple with the question of how their decline can be counteracted. These panel discussions will draw on the expertise of historians, political scientists, authors, and others from across the ideological spectrum, to show...
Contributor:
K. Tulis, Jeffrey - C. Kamarck, Elaine - Haskell, John - J. Schmitt, Gary - Prakash, Saikrishna
Date:2021-09-02
Film, Video
Congress.gov Public Forum
Watch the Library of Congress host a virtual public forum focused on public access to legislative information through Congress.gov. This event will provide an update on improvements to Congress.gov - the authoritative repository of U.S. congressional data - and the Library's role in providing access to legislative information. The forum will also give Congress.gov users an opportunity to provide feedback on the site and...
Contributor:
Simonton, Fred - Zwaard, Kate - Ferguson, Kimberly - Buda Smith, Natalie - Weber, Andrew - Laplant, Lisa - Barton, Bud - Grotke, Abbie - Sweany, Jay - Ebanues, Suzanne - Wood, Margaret - Brammer, Robert
Date:2021-09-02
Film, Video
Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia: Kimchi Fermentation with Marlyn McClendon
As part of the American Folklife Center's Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia film series and panel discussion program, the film, "Fermentation with Marlyn McClendon." In this second film of the series, co-produced with the West Virginia State Folklorist, Emily Hilliard, and Mike Costello and Amy Dawson of West Virginia's Lost Creek Farm, filmmakers Costello and Dawson join Marlyn McClendon (Lobelia, WV) as she explores...
Contributor:
McClendon, Marlyn
Date:2021-09-01
Film, Video
Homegrown: Shaker Spirituals in Maine
The American Folklife Center presents Brother Arnold Hadd, Kevin Siegfried, and Radiance. This concert will focus on the transmission, history, and meaning of Shaker songs, and Brother Arnold's work with American composer Kevin Siegfried.
Contributor:
Hadd, Brother Arnold - Radiance - Siegfried, Kevin
Date:2021-08-25
Film, Video
Homegrown: Bennett Konesni
The American Folklife Center presents Bennett Konesni. Konesni is a singer, farmer, musician and administrator, based where he grew up in midcoast Maine, and also at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, NY, where parts of his family have lived since 1652. His concert will include work songs from Maine, including some from the American Folklife Center's Maine collections.
Contributor:
Konesni, Bennett
Date:2021-08-25
Film, Video
Traditional Folklore in a Digital World: Social Media
In the current media environment, people often use the internet as their first recourse to get news, information, commentary, and opinion, as well as entertainment. While some of this activity involves websites of traditional media such as newspapers and TV stations, it also encompasses a wide range of newer digital media such as podcasts, blogs, Facebook, and Twitter. As the nation's premiere public folklore...
Date:2021-08-24
Film, Video
Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia: Foraging and Relations with Jonathan Hall
Kicking off the American Folklife Center's Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia film series and panel discussion program is the film, Foraging and Relations with Jonathan Hall. In this first film of the series, co-produced with the West Virginia State Folklorist, Emily Hilliard, and Mike Costello and Amy Dawson of West Virginia's Lost Creek Farm, filmmakers Costello and Dawson are joined by fellow hunter and...
Contributor:
Hall, Jonathan - Costello, Mike
Date:2021-08-18
Film, Video
Traditional Folklore in a Digital World: Podcasts
In the current media environment, people often use the internet as their first recourse to get news, information, commentary, and opinion, as well as entertainment. While some of this activity involves websites of traditional media such as newspapers and TV stations, it also encompasses a wide range of newer digital media such as podcasts, blogs, Facebook, and Twitter. As the nation's premiere public folklore...
Date:2021-08-17
Film, Video
The Persistent Challenge of U.S.-China Tech
Join the John W. Kluge Center for a panel discussion led by recent Kluge Fellow Aynne Kokas, with panelists who bring perspectives from the disciplines of media studies, human rights and U.S.-China relations. Conflict over technology has been a flashpoint in relations between the U.S. and China in recent years. Apps like WeChat and TikTok, major companies like Facebook and Google, and even new...
Contributor:
Haskell, John - Segal, Adam - Kokas, Aynne - Wang, Yaqiu - Chen, Wenhong
Homegrown: Hubby Jenkins
Join us for a Homegrown Concert featuring Hubby Jenkins, a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavors to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he delved into his southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through America's traditional music forms. As an integral member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and later Rhiannon Giddens band,...
Contributor:
Jenkins, Hubby
Date:2021-08-11
Film, Video
Community Collections Grant Opportunities
In this webinar, the American Folklife Center staff will discuss the new "Of the People" initiative at the Library of Congress supported by an institutional grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Attendees will learn about all of the funding opportunities under this initiative, with a focus on the Community Collections grant program recently launched by the Library's American Folklife Center.
Contributor:
Migoni, Allina - Fenn, John - Stefano, Michelle - Groce, Nancy
Date:2021-08-10
Film, Video
Chick Corea's Touchstone Quintet
The Library of Congress pays tribute to the late 25 GRAMMY-Award winner and jazz legend, Armando "Chick" Corea with a never-before-released video of his 2005 concert in the Coolidge Auditorium. With the core members of Paco de Lucia's band - Carles Benavent, Tom Brechtlein, Jorge Pardo and Rubem Dantas. Chick Corea revisits the heart of his Spanish-influenced compositions from his classic "Touchstone" album and...
America 250 Interagency Memorandum of Understanding Signing Ceremony
On August 2, 1776, members of the Second Continental Congress began signing the Declaration of Independence. Exactly 245 years later, 20 federal agencies gathered to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in support of activities marking the nation's 250th anniversary in 2026. Organized by Terry Brown, director of federal partnerships for America 205, the signing was held in the Great Hall of the Thomas...
Date:2021-08-02
Film, Video
Peculiar Pop: Genre Comic Books at the Library of Congress
Jesse J. Holland and Megan Halsband discuss the Library of Congress comics collection, as well as the place of comics in American culture. Halsband completed a 2021 staff fellowship looking at the non-superhero genre collections at the Library of Congress, including western, romance, education and funny animal comics. In addition to his work in Black history and journalism, Holland is the author of "Black...
Contributor:
Holland, Jesse J. - Halsband, Megan - Haskell, John
Date:2021-07-29
Film, Video
More Than Words: Design, Dance and Graphic Notation in the Performing Arts
The Library of Congress Music Division is a treasure house of more than centuries of music, theater and dance materials from composers and performers from around the world. Our tour explores visual literacy - focusing on non-textual materials that require a different form of "reading". Six staff members take visitors on a journey through Illuminated manuscripts, costume and set designs, lighting plots, and various...
Social Movements and American Democracy in the 21st Century
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy. Some recent struggles by Americans to make their voices heard have not resulted in the kinds of changes that participants hoped for. But some movements, both recently and further back in American history, have succeeded in changing our society and the way that we understand it. In this event, scholars of American...
Contributor:
Fisher, Dana - Haskell, John - Han, Hahrie - Wright Rigueur, Leah - Skocpol, Theda
Date:2021-07-22
Film, Video
Poesías e historias del Caribe: Mapping Caribbean Women Poets in the PALABRA Archive
2021 Junior Fellow Karla Roig Blay created a digital StoryMap of Caribbean women poets present represented in the PALABRA Archive. This archive is a collection of approximately 800 audio recordings of 20th and 21st-century writers with Luso-Hispanic heritage through Latin American women poets represent only ten percent of this collection. The narrative of the StoryMap focuses on the Caribbean region, with an in depth...
Contributor:
M. Roig Blay, Karla
Date:2021-07-21
Film, Video
New Technologies for Ancient Hebrew Texts
New Technologies for Ancient Hebrew Texts 2021 Junior Fellow Shlomit Menashe increased the discoverability of 1,200 uncatalogued Hebrew prayer books by creating a detailed spreadsheet of information transformable into ILS records for the Library's online catalog. During the course of her work with prayer books from just about every corner of the world, Shlomit came across a Hebrew prayer book printed in 1823 in...
Contributor:
Menashe, Shlomit
Date:2021-07-21
Film, Video
Carvalho Monteiro Collection
Amy Olson's 2021 Junior Fellows project in the Collections Management Division helped locate and digitally reunite the 30,000 books in the Carvalho Monteiro Collection. Carvalho Monteiro (1848-1920) was a Brazilian-born Portuguese businessman, philanthropist and entomologist who discovered many plants and insects in Brazil and Portugal. His library focused on Portuguese culture and history and became an important source material on art, architecture, and decorative...
Contributor:
Olson, Amy
Date:2021-07-21
Film, Video
Assessing the Physical Condition of the National Book Collection
Assessing the Physical Condition of the National Book Collection is an ongoing project within the Preservation Research and Testing Division of the Library of Congress. The project involves comparing the physical, chemical, and visual traits of multiple sets of "identical" books, each sourced from university libraries in varying regions of the U.S. The aim is to provide objective assessments involving analytical techniques that can...