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From the Director Ellen McHale African American folk culture ha been an enormously creative and powerful force in American life...Yet much of contemporary scholarship on African American folklore subjects is underfunded and is accomplished under other disciplinary rubrics...
Meet the NYFS Board: Cecily Cook If I’m asked to explain how I came to do what I’m currently doing, I usually tell two stores. The first is that when I was 17 years old, I went on a bicycle trip in China, and this sparked a strong interest in Asia...
West Side Stories: Memories of a Saratoga Neighborhood Mary Ann Fitzgerald and Leona Signor At wakes and funerals, amid all the sorrow, people tend to comfort one another with stories and memories. Hearing stories at my Uncle Phonsey Lambert’s funeral gathering was so appropriate because he was one of the best storytellers on the West Side...
Bang, Bang, You’re Dead: The Play Paradox Steve Zeitlin Twelve times since 1997, our eyes have witnessed students opening fire on their fellow teachers and students. As American schoolchildren, the perpetrators of these crimes probably shared in the irreverent, often violent rhymes in American children’s folklore...
Fall/Winter 1999

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