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Recent Examples of folklifePartner with the Wisconsin Arts Board for an America's 250th folklife project, funded by a grant from the Smithsonian.—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025 Kentucky folklife specialist Camille Acosta views horror as an instrument for healing.—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023 The exhibition opened with a panel discussion about the life and legacy of Thornton Dial featuring artists Richard Dial, Lonnie Holley, curator and historian Anne Collins Smith, and American studies and folklife professor and historian Stacy Morgan.—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 1 Dec. 2022 Our view—that folklife and culture belonged to the people and was an exercise of their expressive freedom—was in basic contrast with just about all Soviet officials and most, but not all, of their scholarly colleagues.—Dr. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2022 Common Ground on the Hill was recently named Maryland’s newest folklife center, one of three new regional folklife centers in the state, according to a Common Ground news release.—Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Aug. 2020 Ford Hamp's husband, Steve, got his bachelor of arts degree in American history from Butler, a master of arts degree in folklore and folklife from Indiana and his master of museum practice degree from Michigan.—Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2020 Many people got up and placed a rose, among them Jennifer A. Cutting, a specialist the folklife center and 32-year veteran of the library.—Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
Eleanor Roosevelt first professionalized the office there, and in 1977, Rosalynn Carter started the tradition of the office of the first lady being located in the wing, alongside the White House social secretary.
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Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
And so the conflict between love, on one side, and faith, family, and tradition reignites, in a season that retraces the arc of its predecessor—and especially its finale—a bit too closely.
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