Folklife 1996 Smithsonian Gardener Sung Do Kim Shows Orchids to Children at the National Museum of Natural History
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American Folklife 1996 Smithsonian gardener Sung Do Kim shows orchids to children at the National Museum of Natural History. From: The Smithsonian: 1 50 Years of Adventure, Discovery, and Wonder by James Conaway, Smithsonian Books. Copyright © 19% Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Laurie IVIinor-Penland/SI Complimentary Copy SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Eestival of American Folklife 1996 June 26-30 & July 3-7 ON THE National Mall of the United States Washington, D.C. Iowa—Community Style The American South Working at the Smithsonian cosponsoredbythe National Park Service 1996 Festival of American Folklife On the cover Iowa — Community Style 7 Catherine HiebertKerst& RachelleH.Saltzman Community Matters in Iowa David M.Shribman Iowa: A Civic Place |^# f •^-^- A Taste of Thailand: Serving the "Publics" — Dan Hunter & Patrick McClintock .... •^llC^... Tom Morain RAGBRAI, the Des Moines Register's General Iowa Small Towns Annual Great Bicycle Ride Acwss Iowa, Information has become a grassroots festival on Services & Hours Small-Town Newspapers: wheels. Story on page 2 1. Iowa Communities in Print Participants Photo © David Thoreson — Jay Black Daily Schedules Horwitz Back cover Site Map Richard Hogs & the Meaning of Life in Iowa Contributors & Sponsors Iowa Women on the Farm Staff — Phyllis Carlin Friends of the Festival Rinzler Memorial Concert Chuck Offenburger A Rolling Festival in Iowa Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Don Wanatee Meskwaki Culture Mississippi master artist Hystercine Contents Cynthia Schmidt Rankin, who created this design she I. Michael Heyman They Sing, Dance & Remember: calls Sunburst, teaches quilting at 1996: Celebrations in Western Iowa IVlississippi Cultural Crossroads. A Year of Celebration .... Piioto © Roland L. Freeman Between the Rivers: Bruce Babbitt Previous page An Iowa Photo Album A Confluence of Heritage John Duccini maneuvers a hoop net on the National catching Mississippi catfish and for Watershed perch off the side of his boat. Photo by Janet Gilmore, Richard Kunn& courtesy Illinois Arts Council / Mississippi Diana Parker River Museum, Dubuque, lA The Festival in the Electronic Age 1996 Festival of American Folklife The American South 33 Working Philippa Thompson Jackson at the Smithsonian The American South JT' BettyJ.Belanus& MarjorieHunt John Shelton Reed Working at the Smithsonian The South: What Is It? M//>erelslt? 35 MarcPachter Smithsonian Culture: Lydia Martin Painter John Havenner, of the Smith- A Personal View When South Is North sonian's Office ofPhysical Plant, touches up a sign at the Mional BettyJ. Belanus Julian Bond "A Museum ofAmerican History. Challenge a Day": Pam Henson, The Question of Race Smithsonian Photo by Eric Long Institution Historian . PuraFeCrescioni Amy Ballard Being Southern Is Being Invisible "Other Duties As Assigned" Edward Cohen Jamesl.Deutsch Recollections of a Southern Jew The Eyes & Ears of the Smithsonian William Ferris A Circle Unbroken — Celebrations Smithsonian Voices in the American South A Photo Essay Blues guitarist John Lee Zeigler takes a compiled by BettyJ. Belanus, Curtina Moreland-Young break during a recording session in his Marjorie Hunt & Emily Botein Reflections of a Southern Woman Kathleen, Georgia, home. Photo by Timothy Duffy BillCMalone ©1996 Southern Music SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ISSN 1056-6805 Music & the U.S. Civil Rights Movement editor: Caria M. Borden — Jacquelin C. Peters ASSOCIATE editor: Peter Seitel DESIGN director: Kenn Shrader Mary Hood designers: Karin Hayes, On Being a Southern Writer Marcus Johnson, Jr. production manager: Reynald Searles DESIGN intern: Tracy Lee Steve Kerper, woodcarver and small- printer: Schmitz Press town grocer, carves a duck decoy from typefaces: Adobe Myriad, local v\/ood at the counter of the Adobe Tekton, Kerper Country Store in New Vienna, Adobe Berkeley Old Style Iowa. Photo by Le Spearman paper stock: LOE Dull White, Simpson Evergreen 1996 Festival of American Folklife 1 996: A Year of Celebration Dreams to The Bridges Madison County. But I. Michael Heyman of Iowa is also home to agribusiness, high-tech Secretary, Smithsonian Institution and high-skill industnes that manufacture The Festival is a good place to celebrate. computerized combines and hber optics, and Twenty years ago, in 1976, the Festival of to high-quality service industnes from educa- American Folklife was a centerpiece in the tion to insurance. Not without dynamic ten- nation's Bicentennial. It was three months sions and social, demographic, and occupa- long, with programs from thirty-five nations, tional changes, Iowa in its sesquicentennial every region of the United States, and scores of year does indeed foster and nurture a quiet occupational, ethnic, and American Indian but steadfast ci\ac pride that turns out whole groups on the Mall, as well as tounng pro- towns for girls' basketball games, propels grams in some 100 cities and towns. That youth into 4-H clubs, adults into volunteer fire Festival provided a dramatic illustration of companies and social clubs, unity on our 200th birthday, demonstrating and joins residents around a "Each of theee that Americans are a diverse yet tolerant peo- morning coffee table, on a ple, interested m knowing their neighbors and Saturday night dance floor, or annivereariee in joining together with them in acts of civic in a Sunday school. Anyone reminds us of participation. who witnessed the great floods In 1996, questions of national unity and of 1993, who saw exhausted what we value purpose remain with us — yet there is much neighbor helping neighbor, to celebrate, and good cause to do so. On the cannot be unmoved by the and helps set state level, this year marks the 1 50th anniver- prevailing sense of community our course for sary of Iowa statehood; on the international held by the people of Iowa. level, we mark the 1 00th anniversary of the This sense of community is the future!' modem Olympics; and for the nation and the celebrated by the Festival world, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of program here on the Mall in the Nation's the Smithsonian. Each of these anniversanes Capital. It will also be evident back m Iowa for reminds us of what we value and helps set our the hrst Festival of Iowa Folklife on the course tor the future. grounds of the State Capitol Building in Des Iowa IS an icon of American heartland val- Moines in August, and in a Smithsonian Folk- ues. We imagine its main-street towns and ways recording, Iowa Public Television docu- farmlands in a peaceful vision of America, mentary, and educational materials growing where the drama of deep personal relation- from the Festival and distributed to lowans in ships c[uietly unfolds — from the Field oj the months to come. The Olympic Games join athletes from across the globe in the highest levels of com- petition and excellence. The games have included, since their inception, a cultural com- ponent, but never before as extensively as this year in Atlanta. The Centennial Olympic Festival ofAmerican Folklife 1996 1996 Festival of American Folklife Games bring together excellent musical and The Smithsonian is a cherished s\'mbol of dramatic perlormances, exhibttions, and artists knowledge, a repositop.' for treasures and Irom around the world. But most importantly, national memories, a shrine of human ac- the Olympic Arts Festival highlights the complishment and natural wonders. The American South, Southern culture born was Smithsonian celebrates its 1 50th \ear with horn the interactions over the past centuries of AnuTicti'.s Smithsonian — a ma|or exhibition Native Americans, European settlers, and peo- traveling to twelve cities across the nation — ples trom Africa, In the South, various forms and with television specials and minutes, a ol expression have arisen and transcended birthda}' celebration on the Mall m .August, boundaries of race, gender, religion, and geog- and a host of other exhibits, World Wide Web raphy. So poweriul have these expressions programs, and scholarly conferences. The been — jazz, blues, gospel, rock n" roll, civil Smithsonian was founded for the "increase rights songs. Southern oratory, and food — and dittusion ol knowledge" and took root m that they have come to stand for uniciue an American, democratic society as an organ- American contributions to world culture. At ization dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge the Festival here on the Mall, we celebrate in the public eye, and for the public good. At these forms ol expressive culture. Later this the Festival, we demonstrate just how we do summer in Atlanta during the Olympic this, by turning the institution "mside out," as Games, this program will be the core of scientists, curators, conser\'ators, exhibit mak- 5on(luTn Crcivsrocitis. a lestival ot Southern ers, secunt)' olhcers, accountants, and admin- culture to be mounted in the new Centennial istrators show the public how the Smithsonian Olympic Park — the gathering spot for some works. Their work also testihes to the impor- 250,000-400,000 visitors a day and literally tance of knowledge as a basis for understand- billions more through television coverage. An ing the world, the signiticance ol an educated Enhanced-CD Smithsonian Folkways record- citizeniy, and the civic value ol long-li\'ed, ing with Internet connections and other edu- high-quality public institutions. cational material deri\-ed from this Festnal The Festu'al is a wonderlul wa\- to help cele- program will reach millions more alter the brate the anniversaries of these institutions, for Olympic Games. like them, the Festival