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Recent Examples of folklife Partner with the Wisconsin Arts Board for an America's 250th folklife project, funded by a grant from the Smithsonian. — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025 Kentucky folklife specialist Camille Acosta views horror as an instrument for healing. — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023 The exhibition opened with a panel discussion about the life and legacy of Thornton Dial featuring artists Richard Dial, Lonnie Holley, curator and historian Anne Collins Smith, and American studies and folklife professor and historian Stacy Morgan. — Shauna Stuart | [email protected], al, 1 Dec. 2022 The Smithsonian and the USSR Ministry of Culture planned meetings of American and Soviet folklife scholars. — Dr. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2022 Common Ground on the Hill was recently named Maryland’s newest folklife center, one of three new regional folklife centers in the state, according to a Common Ground news release. — Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Aug. 2020 Ford Hamp's husband, Steve, got his bachelor of arts degree in American history from Butler, a master of arts degree in folklore and folklife from Indiana and his master of museum practice degree from Michigan. — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2020

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According to folklore, as with many of the United Kingdom’s more bizarre sports and pastimes, the idea to jump into the bog and snorkel was conceived after a few ales in a local pub.

— Rob Tanner, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Sci-fi blends with folklore as shamans stand in fields to anoint the new drone gods.

— Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

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His front row was the stuff of fashion mythology, the kind of group that could only be summoned by a muse collector of Ackermann’s caliber.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 2 Sep. 2026
In Forgotten Island, inspired by Philippine mythology, two childhood friends become trapped on a colorful island that feeds on memories.

— Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

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One group dawdling at the end of the line explained that much of their personal lore was bound up with trash cinema, and with Breen in particular.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Contrary to popular belief, Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie was not filmed there, although the hotel and the story have become inseparable parts of Estes Park lore.

— Tim Jackson, Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2026

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