An Ossman medley
Vess L. Ossman, banjo. Label data obliterated by distributor (Zonophone Company). Recorded on one side only. Acoustic recording. Production level cataloging.
Amr El Hakim interview conducted by Vyta Pivo, 2021-05-25
El Hakim discusses education and experience in Egypt, commissioning plants internationally, challenges and opportunities in management, introducing technological innovations, and developing a community of cement workers.
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El Hakim, Amr - Pivo, Vyta - Occupational Folklife Project
Kay Foltz interview conducted by Emily Hilliard, 2022-05-08
Julia "Kay" Foltz (b. 1969, Chillicothe, Ohio) was raised in Pickerington, Ohio, and now lives in Pleasantville, Ohio. She works as a rural mail carrier in the Pleasantville and Rushville, Ohio areas, working out of the Bremen, Ohio Post Office. Her mother had been a post office clerk in Pickerington and inspired Foltz's interest in working for the Postal Service. Foltz has delivered the…
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Foltz, Kay - Occupational Folklife Project - Hilliard, Emily
Service Unit/Ship: USS Dewey (DLG 14); Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 (Seabees); Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 62; Navy Reserve
Location of Service: Vietnam; Little Creek, Virginia; Groton, Connecticut; Gulfport, Mississippi; Port Hueneme, California; Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory); Scotland; Tampa, Florida; Indian Ocean; North Carolina; Guam (Mariana Islands)
Louisa Lim: 2014 National Book Festival
David Taylor from the Library of Congress speaks with Louisa Lim, who will appear at the 2014 National Book Festival on August 30 in Washington, D.C.BiographyLouisa Lim is an NPR international correspondent based in Beijing. In her book “The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited,” Lim uncovers a tragedy from China’s modern history that has been untold for nearly 25 years. Through eyewitness accounts…
Amy McVey interview conducted by Virginia Nickerson, 2018-09-28
McVey describes her positions as Drop-Off Center Operator and Facilities Assistant at the largest solid waste district--in terms of population and quantity of material handled--in Vermont. Previously, she worked as a wildlands firefighter. She describes being drawn to the work at the drop-off center because of its physical and outdoor nature, and her interest in recycling. She discusses the practicalities of recycling and compromises…
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Nickerson, Virginia - McVey, Amy - Occupational Folklife Project
Glagolitic Mass : September 1927 version ; The eternal Gospel
The 2nd work is a cantata. Sung in Church Slavic (1st work) and Czech (2nd work). Title from disc label. Andrea Danková (1st work), Alžběta Poláčková (2nd work), sopranos ; Jana Sýkorová, contralto (1st work) ; Tomáš Juhá́s (1st work), Pavel Černoch (2nd work), tenors ; Jozef Benci, bass (1st work) ; Aleš Bárta, organ (1st work) ; Prague Phiharmonic Choir ; Prague Radio…
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Netopil, Tomá - Sýkorová, Jana - Juhás, Tomá - Zahrádka, Jiří - Poláčková, Alžběta - Pražský Filharmonický Sbor - Symfonický Orchestr Čs. Rozhlasu - Černoch, Pavel - Danková, Andrea - Janáček, Leo - Benci, Jozef - Vrchlický, Jaroslav - Bárta, Ale
How to know the birds : the art & adventure of birding
Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching. How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age distinctions, and other features traditionally used to identify species.…
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Recorded Books, Inc - Floyd, Ted - Winton, Graham
Oral history interview of Temba Sopa
Temba Söpa [bstan pa bzod pa] was a monk official in the Tibetan government and was part of the monk household [Tib. shag tshang] of Kundeling Dzasa. He worked in the Standing Committee of the Legjö Legung of the Tibetan government and was part of an informal anti-Chinese organization. In this interview, he talks about working in the Standing Committee of the Reform Office…
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Tibet Oral History and Archive Project - Goldstein, Melvyn C.
The dinner list : a novel
When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. As the appetizers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there's a reason these six people have been gathered together.
The cult of Trump : a leading cult expert explains how the president uses mind control
Mind-control and licensed mental health expert Steven Hassan draws parallels between our current president and people like Jim Jones, David Koresh, L. Ron Hubbard, and Sun Myung Moon, arguing that this presidency is in many ways like a destructive cult. He specifically details the ways in which people are influenced through an array of social psychology methods and how they become fiercely loyal and…
Oral history interview of Wangchuk Dorje
The subject was born into a family that belonged to Sera Monastery's Samlo Khamtsen. In this interview, he discusses how he became a child monk at age 8, but ran away at age 12, and how he then served an old woman and became a monk in Ganden Monastery. He explains how he was then captured by his family and returned to his original…
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Tibet Oral History and Archive Project - Goldstein, Melvyn C.
Rinpianto = Plaint
Yellow song check-list notes: "Not a folk song." Mario Olmeda, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Concord, California on February 13, 1939. In Italian. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Mario Olmeda performing Italian songs on February 13, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Concord, California.
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Olmeda, Mario - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
George Barker reading his poems, Dec. 15, 1958
Recorded Dec. 15, 1958, in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 13. Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1973. 1 sound tape reel :…
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Barker, George - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund
Oral history interview of Wangdü
The interviewee lived in Nyemo in a treba household until moving to Phembo. He paid the mibo to the lord Lhalu and worked as a mason in construction. He tells in detail how he was a mason chemmo and led people and worked on the buidling houses in Lhasa. The subject discusses how his his family's property and the land was taken away in…
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Tibet Oral History and Archive Project - Goldstein, Melvyn C.
Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection
Hosts John Fenn and Stephen Winick, and their guests Ann Hoog, Carl Fleischhauer, and Michelle Stefano, discuss the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection, created as part of the American Folklife Center’s first fieldwork project in 1977. The collection, featuring sound recordings, manuscripts, and photographs from 25 ethnic communities in Chicago, is online at loc.gov They discuss the challenges of getting the collection online and…
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Beverly Robinson - John Fenn - Gamaliel “bobby” Ramírez - Carl Fleischhauer - Edith Wilson, Magic Slim - Ann Hoog - Ralph Metcalfe Jr - Stephen Winick - John Katsikas - Paul Sveinbjorn Johnson - Mrs. Johnson - Jens Lund - James Mack - Margaret Burroughs - Michelle Stefano
