Folklife center. The library hosted this event as part of its summer lecture series. I am going to start the program off. I want to leave time for q a for stephen afterwards. I have a boatload of questions and i imagine the audience is going to as well. As littlewho know about the American Folklife Center as i did, i will share notes i jotted down. Our speaker today is Stephen Winick, who is with the Folklife Center. I will tell you more about his job and a second. The center is located at the library of congress, that is our theme for this month lecture series. The center was created in 1976 to preserve and present american folk life. Rather Ambitious Mission that involves researching,ocumentation, archiving performance, exhibitions, publications, everything that any Cultural Organization likes to do, the Folklife Center tries to do it. Is made up of 2700 collections, that is according to their website. It could it includes 150,000 sound recordings, 3 million items. Youll be sharing s