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CSPAN3 West Virginia Folklore July 13, 2024

Art form. With the West Virginia Folklore Program we document, preserve present and support traditional artists, Cultural Heritage practitioners and cultural communities across the state. Basically, i travel all over the state and do oral history and documentation of banjo players fiddlers, neon sign makers. Independent wrestlers, ramadan Fast Breaking dinners, serbian chicken roast. Any kind of aspect of Cultural Heritage or someone who practices a form art form or a food way or some kind of practice folklore in the state. Thinking how we choose stories for the West Virginia Folklore Program. Theres so much to document. So many time to talk to. When i hear about a singer in her 90s that will be priority. Also stories that complicate the narrative about West Virginia either internally or outside. Stories that show Real Community cohesion. Ive done lot of work in the swiss community. I worked pretty intensely with them over a year documenting their food ways tradition and their Community Festivals which is their swiss version of mardi gras with paper masks where they parade from one dance hall in town to the other, which is about two block and carry lanterns. Then have a square dance under effigy old man winter. At midnight, they cut him down from the rafters and bring him around the bonfire they all sing country road. How can you not document a story like that . When we think about appalachian this is time ways of white folks in the mountains. Theres lot of diversity here. When youre looking who is preserving the Cultural Heritage. We are serbian communities lebanese muslim, africanamerican italian swiss, it runs the gamut. I think some of the narrative about this place is being kind of homogenously white. When we use term appalachian we think how it can be a code word that includes everyone who lives here and engaged in the place. My goal for my audience is not necessarily the world outside but its for the communities themselves. Its kind of two fold. Its both. I really want the community to say, you got this right. Its not necessarily this romantic perception of the place but that you got it right in all its complexity. You can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at cspan. Org city tour. This is american tv only on cspan 3. This year mark the 250th anniversary of the march 5th 1770 boston massacre. Next on American History tv, from the american in massachusetts, historian and author talk about his book first martyr of liberty. Professor tissue kachun explains why sometimes these were celebrated in other times forgotten or vilified by americans

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