D.C. Folklore
odd: label: Introduction
content: The Festival's 1978 theme of "community" offered the occasion to highlight the occupational communities of the Washington, D.C. region, building upon presentations of "Folklore in Your Community" at the 1977 Festival. No one exemplifies the idea of occupational group as community better than the stone carvers who have been working in Washington at the National Cathedral. They practice an art, a skill, a centuries-old craft in much the traditional way that it was practiced in their families five generations ago. Many of the traditional stone carvers were retired, and it was said that their unique art was dying, for there were no young apprentices training to take their places. Stone carvers demonstrated this art at the 1978 Festival and shared stories with the public about their skills and secrets, their history and their jobs.

Some of the other participants who were featured in workshops for the Folklore in Your Community project were taxi drivers, open market vendors, street hawkers, and local storytellers, all from the Washington area, celebrating the rich and vital folklore and folklife in and around the Nation's Capital.
label: Participants
content: Nick Arvanis, 1908-1986, taxi cab driver, Washington, D.C.

Ruby Burnside, 1914-2000, taxi cab driver, Washington, D.C.

Chris Calomiris, market vendor, Silver Spring, Maryland

Bob Chapman, taxi cab driver, Washington, D.C.

Paul Diggs, hawker, Baltimore, Maryland

Merle Dutrow, market vendor, Damascus, Maryland

Archie Edwards, 1918-1998, musician, Washington, D.C.

Moe Gershenson, 1905-1984, taxi cab driver, Mt. Rainer, Maryland

Frank Granati, taxi cab driver, Greenbelt, Maryland

William Hines, 1934-1994, musician, Washington, D.C.

Walter Kelly, hawker, Baltimore, Maryland

Tim Lewis, musician, Washington, D.C.

Ella Lovett, 1930-2003, market vendor, Washington, D.C.

Alton Machen, hawker, Elizabethton, Tennessee

Al Mangialardo, market vendor, Washington, D.C.

Joe Mangialardo, market vendor, Washington, D.C.

Flora Molton, 1908-1990, musician, Washington, D.C.

Roger Morigi, 1907-1995, stone carver, Hyattsville, Maryland

Ed Morris, 1939-1982, musician, Alexandria, Virginia

Vincenzo Palumbo, 1936-2000, stone carver, Hillcrest Heights, Maryland

Daniel Redmond, 1943-2003, hawker, Washington, D.C.

Lincoln Rorie, market vender, Oxon Hill, Maryland

Charlie Sayles, musician, Washington, D.C.

Esther May Scott, 1893-1979, musician, Washington, D.C.

Constantine Seferlis, 1928-2005, stone carver, Garrett Park, Maryland

Greg Taylor, market vendor, Washington, D.C.

John W. Thomas, 1916-1987, market vendor, Temple Hills, Maryland

Vgo, musician, Washington, D.C.

Jerry Williams, 1954-, hawker, Onancock, Virginia

Larry Wise, musician, Washington, D.C.

Frank Zic, 1909-1995, stone carver, Holliswood, New York
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1978 Festival of American Folklife
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.1978, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials