{"id":997,"date":"2006-01-30T21:48:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T02:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=997"},"modified":"2006-01-30T21:48:41","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T02:48:41","slug":"grant-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/grant-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working all day and a good part of tomorrow on a grant to add more films to <a href=\"http:\/\/folkstreams.net\">folkstreams.net<\/a> which is already a rich resource modestly called &#8220;The Best of American Folklore Films.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Many surprises among the films up already including:<\/p>\n<p> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/film,69\">Painted Bride<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThis 1990 video features the exquisite mehndi body painting tradition as it is practiced among Pakistani immigrants living in Queens, New York City. The film follows a mehndi artist, Shenaz Hooda, as she prepares a henna paste and paints intricate designs on the hands and feet of a bride-to-be, while the bride&#8217;s friends sing humorous songs mocking the groom and the future in-laws. <\/p>\n<p> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/film,90\">Remembering Emmanuel Church<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAn oral history of Emmanual Episcopal Church in Fauquier County, Virginia. The storytellers are masters-all of them members of the congregation from the old farming community tradition of Fauquier County. The stories, funny, sad, and scandalous, are memories of friends and family who are dead and buried in the churchyard. A 2000 video by Tom Davenport.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/film,95\">When My Work Is Over<br \/>\nThe Life and Stories of Miss Louise Anderson, 1921-1994<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThe gifted African American storyteller Louise Anderson (1921-1994) tells her family stories and folk tales, and recites poetry in this film taped in Jacksonville, North Carolina, in the last years of her life. Her sisters Evelyn Anderson and Dorothy McLeod join Louise in recalling their experiences growing up in the South, working in restaurants and as domestics in white households, and struggling for civil rights in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/film,105\">Possum Trot<br \/>\nThe Life and Work of Calvin Black, 1903-1972<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCalvin Black was a folk artist who lived in California&#8217;s Mojave Desert and created more than 80 life-size female dolls, each with its own personality, function, and costume. <\/p>\n<p>And many more that need to be added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working all day and a good part of tomorrow on a grant to add more films to folkstreams.net which is already a rich resource modestly called &#8220;The Best of American Folklore Films.&#8221; Many surprises among the films up already including: Painted Bride This 1990 video features the exquisite mehndi body painting tradition as it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-information-commons","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}