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  1. Life and Death of Languages. New York Times. http://bit.ly/4WNUFS
  2. Field Trip South, blog of the Southern Folklife Center (which houses the Folkstreams archive) http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/sfc/
  3. How government programs to employ artists served the nation during the Great Depression. Diane Rehm Show. http://bit.ly/8guwua
  4. National Geographic All Roads Film Project Offers Seed Grants for Indigenous Storytellers. http://bit.ly/8f0FL4
  5. Cell phones in India affecting culture in rural areas. http://bit.ly/8yCe4Y
  6. Disney American Folklore preview on youtube. http://bit.ly/6qxUrb. See related films.
  7. Youtube to provide captioning tools. http://bit.ly/4bdbsI
  8. Celebration of Seagrove, NC potters. Nov 21 and 22. http://www.celebrationofseagrovepotters.com/index.html
  9. Errol Morris' blog on NY Times about the Farm Security Photos. http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/
  10. Florida has the longest history of ranching of any state in the United States. Exhibit by Florida Folklife at http://bit.ly/n3Zk2
  11. George Stoney screens his work Friday Oct 16 Chapel Hill. http://www.cdsporch.org/?p=917#more-917
  12. Ralph Stanley on the Diane Rehm show NPR. http://bit.ly/14IXXY
  13. Archives....Memory chips based on nanotubes and iron particles might be capable of storing data for a billion years. http://bit.ly/3k4brJ
  14. "Ghost in your Genes" PBS Nova program. Genes triggered by the history of our grandparents. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genes/
  15. Doc streaming on Indian music. http://bit.ly/2qZNLb
  16. The African American Oral History Project and Interpreting the Texas Past. http://bit.ly/t4JmQ
  17. Lao weaving featured in new film. Mone and Vanxay Saenphimmachak are National Hertiage Award Winners. http://www.folkstreams.net/film,196
  18. UNESCO, batik, and intangible cultural heritage. http://bit.ly/JIVKG
  19. Tom Davenport's local histories on youtube. "Burning fields in Virginia" http://bit.ly/WLd0r
  20. Veterans History Project http://www.loc.gov/vets/. See McCreary stories on youtube http://bit.ly/rvvnt