Preserving the Stories of America

This video tells how and where Arkansas ballad singer Almeda Riddle began her 10 year stint of singing old ballads all over the country. In an informal manner, folk musician Starr…

Drake's is a a barbecue shack back off the road...as they pull in and Stan begins to shoot, the owner appears and begins waving and calling him to come eat "the best barbecue and…

John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, N. C., on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and…

This documentary was part of a program on five short subjects about traditional activities in the New Jersey Pinelands National Preserve: railbirding in the meadows, cranberry…

This film documents sacred harp singing, a 200 year old tradition of religious singing which survives today in the rural South.