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  Volume 31
  Spring-Summer
  2005		 Voices


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Children at play in the city



Pakistani kite flyer



Ruth Crawford Seeger with students



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Features

5
The Broom Closet
by Andrea Dolloff, Introduction by Steve Zeitlin, and Photographs by Martha Cooper
10 Spectral Indians, Desecrated Burial Grounds
by Libby Tucker
14 Legends, High School History Classes, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
by Sandra K. Dolby
20 Born to Giglio
by Stephanie Trudeau

22 Flyin’ High: Kite Flying from the Silk Road to Roosevelt Avenue
by Elena Martínez and Photographs by Martha Cooper
28 On the Trail of the Ugly Dog
by Stanley A. Ransom
32 Employing Music in the Cause of Social Justice: Ruth Crawford Seeger and Zilphia Horton
by Julia Schmidt-Pirro and Karen M. McCurdy
38 The Seabrook Education and Cultural Center: Telling the Story of a Japanese American Community in Southern New Jersey
by Jack Shortlidge
46 Recollections of Collecting
by James Spears

Departments and Columns

2 Field Notes: The New York Chinatown Senior Center
by Meng Yu
4 New York Folklore Society News
8 Upstate: "You know you’re from upstate New York if..."
by Varick A. Chittenden
9 Downstate: Chess Havens
by Steve Zeitlin
19 Foodways: The Cheese Stands Alone
by Lynn Case Ekfelt
31 Eye of the Camera: Beware Variable Aperture
by Martha Cooper
37 Lawyer’s Sidebar: Roll Over, Woody Guthrie
by Paul Rapp
43 Library Essentials: Reading the Global Context of Immigrant Folklore
by Tom van Buren
44 Book Reviews
47 Obituary: Alf Evers
48 Announcements
Kite flier at Flushing Meadow Park

Cover: Kite flier at Flushing Meadow Park in 2000, displaying kites made in Pakistan. Photo: Martha Cooper

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