Virtual Books Folklife in the Florida Parishes Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation Through Apprenticeship Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana Learning From Your Community Gifts From The Hills He's the Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Chief "Tootie" Montana's 50 years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting Splittin on the Grain More Than Just a Trade: Master Craftsmen of the Building Arts   Folklife in the Florida Parishes Received the 1989 Notable Government Documents Award from the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).   Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation Through Apprenticeship - A Review of the Louisiana Folklife Apprenticeship Program Received the 1993 Notable Government Documents Award from the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).   Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana: The Swapping Stories book, video, and website are products of the ten-year Louisiana Storytelling Project that documented Louisiana storytellers. The project began as a collaboration with the Louisiana Office of Tourism’s Open House 1990 Storytelling Program with stories being recorded a Louisiana festivals. Stories were then edited into the book, videorecorded for the documentary, and finally posted online. Swapping Stories: Received the 1999 Humanities Book Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.   Learning From Your Community A Classroom Curriculum For Grades 4-8 by Gail Matthews, Ph.D. and Don Patterson, M.S.-- South Carolina Arts Commission, South Carolina Folk Arts Program. NOTE: This is a PDF document which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. Slower connections may experience longer download times.   Gifts From The Hills Edited by Susan Roach. The North Central Louisiana Folklife Project was begun in November, 1983 for the purpose of surveying and documenting the existing folk traditions located in the five parishes of Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, and Union. The original exhibition took place at Louisiana Tech University, in Ruston, LA, September 30-October 21, 1984. White Oak Basketry, grave decorating, soap-making, cane carving, and storytelling are just a few of the folk traditions explored in this informative exhibition book.   He's The Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Chief "Tootie" Montana's 50 Years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting This essay was originally published as an exhibit catalogue by the New Orleans Museum of Art for the 1997 exhibit, "He’s the Prettiest:" A Tribute to Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana’s 50 Years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting. Kalamu ya Salaam is a writer/editor/filmmaker and founder of NOMMO Literary Society, a New Orleans-based creative writing workshop. Salaam is the leader of the WordBand, a poetry performance ensemble that combines poetry with blues, jazz and other forms of music. Salaam can be reached at kalamu@aol.com. Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun are photographers based in New Orleans.     Splittin' On The Grain: Folk Art in Clifton, Louisiana Edited by H.F. Gregory and Donald W. Hatley. This book contains articles written by Claude Medford, H.F. Gregory, Shari Miller, and Miriam Rich. Explore the eclectic folk arts of Clifton, Louisiana in this charming book. Learn about the traditions and the people who carry on these traditions. This publication was made possible through a grant from The Louisiana Division of the Arts. It was originally published in Louisiana Folklife, Volume VIII Number 1, March 1983.     More Than Just a Trade: Master Craftsmen of the Building Arts by Laura Westbrook. Based on the New Orleans Building Arts Project, this virtual book features an introduction by Laura Westbrook, an article by C. Ray Brassieur, and interviews with masons, painters, ironworkers, roofers, lathers, tile masons, wood crafters, plasterers, blacksmiths, shorers, and more. This site complements the exhibition book, Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans, published by the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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