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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
Writing project to document writing habits during the eating habits during the 1930s. It is about one hour. [applause] folks, i want you to go easy on mark. He has had about 14 interviews today. Very popular guy, radio, tv, not much of the man left here. [laughter] rick i wanted to set it up. And i think a little bit of my thunder was stolen already. Calledlatest gem, it is the food of a younger land. A younger land, what does younger land mean . It depends on how far you want to go back. If you are anthropologists, they think the diet went to hell about 7000 years ago when humans stoppedforaging, hunting and gathering, and had a diet of minerals and vitamins and amino acids perfectly in tune with the seasons and went to a lower grade of eating called agriculture, with its grains and so forth. Or you could go to a younger land, back to the late 19th century in philadelphia where they were already fishing out wasters and the shad and the catfish. To the catfish dinners here, catfish din