Crafts
odd: label: Introduction
content: In past years, the Festival had featured products and related processes with a rich background of folk technology and folklore; most recently, the 1969 Festival had stressed wool and corn products. For 1970, the thematic presentations focused on dairy products as well as present day milk production. The Festival activities were complemented by an exhibit in the lobby of the US Department of Agriculture (adjacent to the Dairy area on the Mall). Festival visitors could see dairy cows being fed and milked, and could then follow that milk as it was transformed by craft demonstrators into butter, buttermilk, cheese, cottage cheese, biscuits, and blintzes.

The dairy program was made possible by the US Department of Agriculture and the Dairy Industry Committee of Greater Metropolitan Washington.
label: Participants
content: Herman Benton, 1914-1994, grain scoop maker, New York

Margaret Daetwyler, 1920-2012, cheese maker, West Virginia

Cora Jackson, 1923-1990, butter churner, Virginia

Norman Kennedy, 1934-, weaver-spinner, Virginia

Pike County Citizen's Association Sewing Committee, quilters, Kentucky

Paul Shenk, cheese maker, Pennsylvania

Erwin Thieberger, 1908-1987, coppersmith, Maryland

Jaraslawa Tkach, 1900-1979, blintz maker, New York

Ora Watson, 1909-2004, buttermilk biscuits, North Carolina

Willard Watson, 1905-1994, toy maker, North Carolina

Silvio Zangrando, 1899-1983, marble cutter and setter, New York

Mary Zickefoose, 1907-1994, cottage cheese maker, West Virginia
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1970 Festival of American Folklife
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.1970, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials