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Film, VideoHomeplace Mississippi: A Cultural Journey To celebrate the recent acquisition of his work and to discuss his experiences in the 1970s as well as talk about his on-going work documenting life and culture in contemporary Mississippi, Michael Ford joins American Folklife Center archivist Todd Harvey for a program highlighting his work.- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoNorth Mississippi Homeplace: Photographs & Folklife Photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford discusses a new book, "North Mississippi Homeplace." In the early 1970s, Ford left graduate school and a teaching position in Boston, packed his young family into a van and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photos and film. The project took him to Oxford (in Lafayette County),…- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2019