 Approach to Folklore City Lore founder Steve Zeitlin City Lore's Founder Dr. Steve Zeitlin has said that City Lore has: an "open mission to document and present New York City and America's living cultural heritage. Living cultural heritage used by folklorists to suggest the documentation, interpretation, and presentation of traditions within living memory, as opposed to events that predate living memory, and are, in a sense, purely historical. The original impetus for the discipline of folklore in the 19th century was the notion of collecting myths and legends as "survivals" from an earlier age, but City Lore is very present oriented. It's not only about capturing the past, it's about using an arts perspective to look at life itself. And to see the present in a slightly more vivid and interested and compelling way by looking at the artistic impulse in everyday life. Folklorists distinguish themselves from historians and from cultural anthropologists, because of the attention they pay to the aesthetic dimensions of history and culture." 2 According to Zeitlin, City Lore is “tradition inspired but not tradition bound, and we are all about the redemptive power of grassroots creativity."
<coherence>  Approach to Folklore City Lore founder Steve Zeitlin City Lore's Founder Dr. Steve Zeitlin has said that City Lore has: an "open mission to document and present New York City and America's living cultural heritage. Living cultural heritage used by folklorists to suggest the documentation, interpretation, and presentation of traditions within living memory, as opposed to events that predate living memory, and are, in a sense, purely historical. The original impetus for the discipline of folklore in the 19th century was the notion of collecting myths and legends as "survivals" from an earlier age, but City Lore is very present oriented. It's not only about capturing the past, it's about using an arts perspective to look at life itself. And to see the present in a slightly more vivid and interested and compelling way by looking at the artistic impulse in everyday life. Folklorists distinguish themselves from historians and from cultural anthropologists, because of the attention they pay to the aesthetic dimensions of history and culture." 2 According to Zeitlin, City Lore is “tradition inspired but not tradition bound, and we are all about the redemptive power of grassroots creativity."
 2 According to Zeitlin, City Lore is “tradition inspired but not tradition bound, and we are all about the redemptive power of grassroots creativity."