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Good afternoon, The National Digital Library is having a busy end of September and with pleasure announces the release of another American Memory historical collection. This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our apologies for any duplicate announcements. Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia is based on the American Folklife Center’s Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99). The project documents traditional land use in the mountains surrounding Southern West Virginia’s Big Coal River Valley. Functioning as a de facto commons, the mountains have supported a way of life that for many generations has included hunting, gathering, and subsistence gardening, as well as coal mining and timbering. Articulated through stories, place names, artifacts, and seasonal practices, the commons powerfully evokes collective memory and anchors community life. The commons is situated in a temperate-zone hardwood forest system unrivaled for its biological diversity. Consequently it supports an unusually diverse seasonal round of activities. Tending the Commons includes extensive interviews on native forest species and the seasonal round of traditional harvesting (including spring greens; summer berries and fish; fall nuts, roots such as ginseng, fruits, and game) and documents community cultural events such as storytelling, baptisms in the river, cemetery customs, and the spring “ramp” feasts using the region’s native wild leek. The collection can be found at the following URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cmnshtml/ Other folklife-related online collections, selected publications of the American Folklife Center, and information about its products and services are available from the center's homepage: http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress was created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife." The center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American folk music. The center and its collections have grown to encompass all aspects of folklife from the United States and around the world. The National Digital Library, of which American Memory is a part, is one of the Library’s Gifts to the Nation as it celebrates its bicentennial. This five-year program will make available more than 5 million items of primary source materials from the library’s collections that relate to American history. Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=