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  Volume 31
  Fall-Winter
  2005		 Voices


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Knitting It Together



Rabbi Aaron Charney



Roxy Caccamise greets Lionel Hampton



Hicks the Pirate broadside


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Features

3
Knitting It Together: A Case Study of a Sweater
by Jill Breit
12 A Method to Our Madness
by Miriam L. Wallach
14 The Underground Seen: Tunneling Legends on College and University Campuses
by Vince DeFruscio and Charlie McCormick
20 Tyke’s Ice Fishing Contest
by Ruby Marcotte

23 “Thinking Culturally: An Insider’s Perspective”: A Panel from the New York Folklore Society’s Writing Folklore Conference
28 An Accordion Story: Following the Trail of Roxy and Nellie Caccamise
by Christine F. Zinni
38 Murder and Mayhem, Tra-La! The Saugerties Bard
by John Thorn
44 Poet Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman Receives National Heritage Award
by Ethel Raim

Departments and Columns

2 New York Folklore Society News
10 Upstate
by Varick A. Chittenden
11 Downstate
by Steve Zeitlin
22 Foodways
by Lynn Case Ekfelt
27 Bookshelf Essentials
by Tom van Buren
35 Eye of the Camera
by Martha Cooper
36 Obituary: Ken Lowe
45 Book Reviews
Young Nellie Barsocchi with her Ranco Antonio accordion

Cover: Young Nellie Barsocchi with her Ranco Antonio accordion, 1930. Courtesy of Rose Caccamise.

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