March 02, 2022
It has been a while but the entire existing collection has been assembled and will be transitioning ...
August 20, 2021
Some of Jane Farwell's documents going into folders. She wrote many manuals for social recreation an...
August 18, 2021
Final stages of sorting.
Decisions are being made about what information should be grouped togethe...
August 18, 2021
This amazing sign was another treasure captured in the pages of a Fran Sprain scrapbook.
#folklore ...
August 17, 2021
Jane Farwell was most well known for the German dirndls she wore to events throughout the country. H...
August 16, 2021
What is Jane doing?
According to the note written by Fran Sprain, Jane is crushing grapes in Fall o...
August 16, 2021
These cards represent information about the costume collection that is part of the Folklore Village ...
August 13, 2021
This is true treasure!
New additions to the Folklore Village Community Archive are three scrapbooks...
August 12, 2021
A postcard sent out by Folklore Village in 1984:
DUST OFF YOUR TUBA & STRING UP YOUR VIOLIN
Experie...
August 11, 2021
The piles have gotten bigger and the piles have gotten smaller. Now that items are moving into folde...
August 11, 2021
From a pamphlet printed in 1990:
"Folklore Village Philosophy...
It is the human yearning for musi...
August 10, 2021
The refoldering process begins.
Refoldering is a term used when moving materials from one container...
August 09, 2021
Snippet from the past:
Friends of Folklore Village announcement from the 1950s -
"Many of you are a...
August 09, 2021
Jane saw recreation in ways that no one else did. She combined elements together that were both surp...
August 06, 2021
For many years, a Jane Farwell event meant receiving a meticulously handcrafted invitation. These we...