1981 Folklife Festival Held in Summer
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PrintAfter four years of being held in October, the Festival of American Folklife is held for two weeks during the summer, June 24-July 6, 1981. The festival featured South-Slavic Americans, the American tent show, adobe architecture, traditional American music, folklore of the deaf, and Native Americans of the Upper Midwest.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," February 1981, p. 2.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
June 24, 1981
Cultural expressionism