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2020 Folklife Apprenticeship Feature: Kim Johnson & Cody Jordan, Banjo Traditions of Central West Virginia

Kim Johnson of South Charleston is leading an apprenticeship in banjo traditions of central West Virginia with apprentice Cody Jordan of Charleston.

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"In midwifery the art and the science are almost inseparable. Both the art and the science are accessible to clients, usually through a combination of modeling, teaching basic preventive health and wellness concepts, and storytelling." -Certified Nurse-Midwife Angy Nixon

We're very excited to announce a new #WestVirginia foodways video series we've been working on in partnership with the American Folklife Center at the @librarycongress and produced by Mike Costello & Amy Dawson of @lostcreekfarm.

Our friends at the Appalachian Food Summit just announced two new fellowships, the Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships and the Mountain Foodways Media Fellowships, to support the work of Appalachian foodways practitioners and documentarians.

Three African-American women participate in a Make Your Own Mix demonstration as part of a WVU Agricultural Experiment Station project, Kanawha County, 1951.

This Sunday, June 27th from 2-3pm, the Ferguson Rock Legends & Lore Roadside Marker will be unveiled at the Wildwood House Museum at 121 Laurel Terrace in Beckley. The marker commemorates the rock which, according to local folklore, a hunter inscribed with his own epitaph, after he was thrown off his horse sometime in the year 1814. Others suggest the rock was inscribed by a member of the Ferguson family of fur trappers from Franklin County, Virginia. 🪨

As part of their #WVFolklife Apprenticeship in Sheep-to-Shawl: The Art of Raising Sheep and Creating Fiber Arts, sheep farmers and textile artists Kathy Evans and Margaret Bruning worked with Emily Prentice of @waywarddaughter.space to create a zine about their year of study.

In April 2020, in the midst of #WestVirginia’s Stay at Home Order, #WVFolklife issued a call for West Virginians to share documentation of how they were creatively responding to the COVID-19 crisis through music, stories, writing, craft, art, memes, mask making, and more.

What is an herb? What is the importance of sustainable harvesting of plants and fungi? How did COVID-19 highlight the influence and usefulness of traditional knowledge and skills? Is the in-person apprenticeship model still pertinent?

For the Spring 2021 issue of @goldenseal_magazine, State Folklorist Emily Hilliard wrote about storyteller, old-time & gospel musician, pastor, and 2020 Vandalia Award winner W.I. "Bill" Hairston of Charleston.

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