Archive for the 'Folk Life Festival' Category

Folk Life Festival: Day 7 Journal
July 6, 2007

Today I stopped by the folk life festival again. I had actually spent the morning interviewing one of the staff members at the hotel where the participants stay.
The festival was difficult to get to because of the brief afternoon showers but it was still on and when the rain cleared, the Mall filled up again.
I [...]

Folk Life Festival Journal: Day 5
July 2, 2007

The Folk Life Festival is one of the greatest local events in D.C. in my opinion. As a geography major in college, who’s read more about the world in books than seen it firsthand, this might be the closest I get to seeing the Mekong River Delta in Southeast Asia, North Ireland and um…Virginia? Yes, [...]