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P.O. Box 764
Schenectady, NY 12301
518/346-7008 Fax 518/346-6617
nyfs@nyfolklore.org
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NOTE: The New York Folklore Society Newsletter and New York Folklore Journal were replaced by Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore which debuted in December, 2000.

Fall/Winter 1998
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Farewell from the Executive Director
After nine good years as executive director of the New York Folklore Society, I have decided to move on and will be leaving the society in January . . .
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Meet the NYFS Board: Kathleen Condon
I decided to pursue a career as a folklorist when I was just eighteen years old and have worked with traditional and community cultures for over twenty years now . . .
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With Greenspace for All
Laura Hansen and Steve Zeitlin
There are no gazebos, and no cappuccinos are served at the Rincon Criollo casita and community garden in the South Bronx. But on any given day, while midtown crowds lunch, stroll, or listen to music on the "great lawn" of Bryant Park, the members of Rinoconc Criollo, their friends, and anyone who happens by perform and teach bomba and plena music, play dominoes, . . .
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Herbert Haufrecht, 1909-1998
Virginia Scheer
Herbert Haufrecht, composer, pianist, author, folklorist, and long-time resident of the Catskills, died on June 23 at the age of 88. I met Herb when he came to our house with an Earthwatch group to collect Catskills folk stories from my late husband Walt Meade . . .
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Fall/Winter 1998
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