Upstate

Summary

We all know that time flies when we’re having fun. As for me, I can scarcely believe that thirty years have passed since the summer of 1979, when Valerie Ingram and I, both recent Cooperstown “folkies,” organized a conference we called Getting the “Lore” Back to the “Folk” for anyone interested in folklore, particularly applied folklore, as it was called in those days. It was the ’70s, and this was a new field.