The third of three parts in Eric Ball’s essay trilogy, “Homemade Music A Family Tree.” Using the trope of music, the author reflects on his grandfather and his craft.
Personal Narrative
Virtuous Versifying: A Composition About Rhymes
The second of a three-part series about family connections with folk art – in this case, poetry and the poetry of his grandmother.
Poetry of Everyday Life
In his column, Steve Zeitlin explores the relationship between friends, a death, and a service tree in the New York Botanical Garden.
Gouging Tradition: Musings on Fingernail Fiddle Making
An autobiographical treatise on the intersection of craft, tools, and music.
Crossing Cultures
The author reflects on his cross-cultural Scottish and Sicilian family in text and paintings.
Artist Spotlight: Enikö Farkas Remembers
Personal experiences of the Hungarian Revolution, embroidery, and her life in America.
Recovering the Stories of Chinese Immigrants in the Spa City
Oral history interviews with Chinese and Chinese Americans in Saratoga Springs expand Saratoga Springs’ local history documentation.
Essere Vecchi & Brutto
Remembrances of an Italian American childhood
Rewriting Tradition: The Queer Politics of a Lesbian Folklorist
An essay about the intersection of folklore and song-writing.
Exploring Frontiers: An American Tradition
A memoir about the Homosexual Rights Movement of 1950s Los Angeles.
“Looking for Some Sort of Love”: The sexual Life History of a Gay Man
An interview based essay on one person’s sexual life hisotry.
Inside Millie’s Kitchen
Personal narratives enable us to define a specific group’s values within the context of daily life. Using one Adirondack narrator as the subject of the paper, McMahon demonstrates how whe creates and defines her narrative space within the boundaries of her community,
“Poor Child”: A Sculptale
A sculptor, Harry Eisner describes his connection to his art through storytelling.
Winemaking and Personal Cosmology
Personal Narratives of wine making and wine drinking provides a source for self-definition that reinforced ethnicity and personal identity