The center provides numerous resources to support folklife programs, including booklets on doing field interviewing and interview projects, advice on recording equipment and on training volunteer interviewers, and limited loans of recording equipment. Can be contacted for information on other community groups and contact persons. This program provides grants and technical assistance to local and regional organizations throughout the United States and its territories to support folklife projects. The goal of the program is to enable a rich, diverse range of American communities to preserve, pass on, and celebrate their folklife traditions. Folklife refers to the traditional ways in which groups of people maintain their shared sense of beauty, identity, and values.
Grant guidelines are available on request.
Publications and Media Productions Resources on Mexican Americans in Nebraska Geil Elementary Third Grade. Our Heritage Through Sugar Beets . Geil Elementary School, 1995. A report containing summaries of oral history interviews with former workers in the sugar beet industry and descendants of former workers. The interviews were done by members of the Geil third grade class under the direction of their instructor, Lois Herbel.