Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection
By: collected by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service
Contributors: Eiler, Terry, photographer; Fleischhauer, Carl; Wolfe, Charles K.; United States. National Park Service; American Folklife Center; Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress); Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project
Published: 1977
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25000
Subjects: Social life and customs; Food habits; Tobacco farmers; Religious life and customs; Gospel music; Music; Folk music; Protestant churches; Quilts; Folk dancing; Material culture; English Hymns; Square dancing; Community life; Rites and ceremonies; Fox hunting; Vernacular architecture; Folklore
Other titles: Blue Ridge harvest: a region's folklife in photographs.; Children of the heavenly king.; Process of field research : final report on the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project.
Description: The collection consists of sound recordings, video recordings, photographs, manuscripts, sheet music, printed ephemera, artifacts, administrative records, and ethnographers' field notes related to the 1978 Blue Ridge Parkway Project field survey, which examined folklife in and around an area of the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Virginia and North Carolina border. The project documented folk music, vernacular architecture, quilting, foodways, religious music and beliefs, as well as dance events featuring square dancing and flatfoot dancing, and interviews with dancers. The collection includes two publications based on these materials and a final report presented to the National Park Service: "The Process of Field Research, Final Report on the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project" by Carl Fleischhauer and Charles Wolfe.
Notes: Access restrictions apply; some or all content stored offsite. Please contact the Folklife Reading Room before requesting materials:  folklife@loc.gov ; 202-707-5510.

Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (AFC 1982/009), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

A portion of the collection on Blue Ridge quilters and quiltmaking is presented in "Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996," an American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

The project was organized in cooperation with the National Park Service. Ten folklorists from the American Folklife Center conducted fieldwork from 1977 to 1981. The materials were used in designing and improving National Park Service interpretive programs.

Collection guide available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.

Eiler, Lyntha Scott; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer, eds. Blue Ridge harvest : a region's folklife in photographs. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1981.

Wolfe, Charles K., ed. Children of the Heav'nly King (LP) Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Recording Laboratory, 1981.