The final report on the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife ProjectEiler, Lyntha Scott.Eiler, Terry.Fleischhauer, Carl.United StatesNational Park Service.American Folklife CenterArchive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Projectmixed materialField recordings-Blue Ridge Mountains.Interviews.Ethnography.Sound recordings.Manuscripts.Manuscripts for publication.Oral history.Videocassettes.Photographs.Slides.xxu19771981monographiceng13161 folders.428 sound tape reels : analog, various speeds ; 5 and 7 in.39 sound cassettes (60 and 90 min.) : analog.2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.ca. 25,000 photographs : b&w, col.114 photoprints : b&w.moving images: 14 videocassettes : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.The collection consists of sound recordings, video recordings, photographs, manuscripts, sheet music, printed ephemera, artifacts, administrative records, and ethnographers' field notes related to the 1978 Blue Ridge Parkway Project field survey, which examined folklife in and around an area of the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Virginia and North Carolina border. The project documented folk music, vernacular architecture, quilting, foodways, religious music and beliefs, as well as dance events featuring square dancing and flatfoot dancing, and interviews with dancers. The collection includes two publications based on these materials and a final report presented to the National Park Service: "The Process of Field Research, Final Report on the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project" by Carl Fleischhauer and Charles Wolfe.collected by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service.Reference copies are available in the Folklife Reading Room, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, and the Appalachian Resource Center, Blue Ridge Parkway.A portion of the collection on Blue Ridge quilters and quiltmaking is presented in "Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996," an American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.The Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (AFC 1982/009), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.The project was organized in cooperation with the National Park Service. Ten folklorists from the American Folklife Center conducted fieldwork from 1977 to 1981. The materials were used in designing and improving National Park Service interpretive programs.Collection guide available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.Eiler, Lyntha Scott; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer, eds. Blue Ridge harvest : a region's folklife in photographs. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1981.Wolfe, Charles K., ed. Children of the Heav'nly King (LP) Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Recording Laboratory, 1981.n-us-van-us-ncMusicBlue Ridge MountainsFolk musicBlue Ridge MountainsFolkloreBlue Ridge MountainsFolk dancingBlue Ridge MountainsMaterial cultureBlue Ridge MountainsFood habitsBlue Ridge MountainsCommunity lifeBlue Ridge MountainsFox huntingBlue Ridge MountainsGospel musicBlue Ridge MountainsHymns, EnglishBlue Ridge MountainsProtestant churchesBlue Ridge MountainsRites and ceremoniesBlue Ridge MountainsQuiltsBlue Ridge MountainsSquare dancingBlue Ridge MountainsTobacco farmersBlue Ridge MountainsVernacular architectureBlue Ridge MountainsBlue Ridge MountainsReligious life and customsBlue Ridge MountainsSocial life and customsAppalachian RegionSocial life and customsAppalachian RegionReligious life and customsVirginiaSocial life and customsNorth CarolinaSocial life and customsWolfe, Charles K.2004695008http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/blueridge.htmlhdl:loc.afc/collafc.af000018http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/blueridge.htmlhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000018DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.DLC04031020080313172250.013517839