Fall–Winter 2008, Volume 34:3–4
Acquisitions Editor Felicia Faye McMahon
Managing Editor Sheryl A. Englund
Design Mary Beth Malmsheimer
Printer Eastwood Litho
Editorial Board: Varick Chittenden, Lydia Fish,
Nancy Groce, Lee Haring, Libby Tucker,
Kay Turner, Dan Ward, Steve Zeitlin
Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore
is published twice a year by the
New York Folklore Society, Inc.
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Cover: Camila Kakhromanova,
Sanabar Kakhromanova, and
Sabina Mamedova. Photo:
Felicia Faye McMahon
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FROM THE EDITORS
From the Fall-Winter
2008 issue of Voices:
This issue’s lead article,
Dee Britton’s “Comfort
in Cloth: The
Syracuse University
Remembrance Quilt,”
documents the creation
of a unique folk-art
memorial for the
thirty-five students at
Syracuse University who died with 235 others
as the result of a terrorist attack December
21, 1988. This and other articles on material
culture, ritual storytelling, and traditional music
demonstrate the important contributions
made by today’s folklorists working in the
academic and public spheres. In the next issue,
Voices will welcome food columnist Makalé
Faber Cullen, director of programs at Slow
Food USA in Brooklyn, New York. Makalé
will fill the shoes of our longtime food columnist
Lynn Ekfelt, who wrote “Foodways”
for eight years and whose final contribution
appears in this issue.
After five years I end my tenure as editor
of Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore. As
I reflect on what has been accomplished since
2003, I am proud of our many achievements.
Our submissions represent a wide and egalitarian
range of articles written by scholars,
student folklorists, community members,
folk artists, and internationally recognized
names such as Roger Abrahams, Susan Davis,
Sandra Dolby, Elaine Lawless, and Brian Sutton-
Smith. Voices—which now boasts eight
regular columns, artist profiles, and an ongoing
creative nonfiction section—is published
biannually, and readers can expect to receive
their copies reliably in October and May of
each year.
I’ve been fortunate to work with dedicated
editorial board members willing to donate
their time to review our submissions. The high
quality of our publication would not be possible
without the expertise of our managing
editor, Sheri Englund, and our designer, Mary
Beth Malmsheimer, as well as the sage advice
of the New York Folklore Society’s executive
director, Ellen McHale, and the support of
her staff. The new acquistions editor, Eileen
Condon, will join the staff for the next issue.
As always, I remind you, the reader, that the
future of Voices depends on your continued
contributions.
Felicia Faye McMahon, Ph.D..
Acquisitions Editor
New York Folklore Society
I am delighted to begin
serving as acquisitions
editor for Voices, a publication
that does function as
our voice: the collectively
and individually rich sightings
and soundings of traditional
artists, community groups, and culture
workers across New York State. I appreciate
outgoing acquisitions editor Faye McMahon’s
helpful guidance as I come on board for the
next issue. I look forward to working with
and learning from Voices’ staff, editorial board
members, contributors, and readers and will
relish the communications that are part of
the job. Critical feedback, ideas, questions,
suggestions, scholarly and creative written
submissions, photography, artwork—all are
most welcome.
Eileen Condon
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