Blog Emerging from Hibernation

 After we posted early in 2023 that Catskills Folk Connection had finally obtained its designation as a 501.c.3 non-proft, the blog was allowed to stay as it was, having docmented many years of programming while CFC was a fiscally sponsored project.  The blog is still available for you to scroll through past programs and look at collections of photographs ( In the Gallery see Halloween projects from 2013 and from before CFC was even founded.)  Today, February 13 at 7 p.m., the blog will assume a new use - illustrating audio programs on CFC's radio show, Catskills Folk either at 91.3 FM or at www.wioxradio.org. The topic is a book called "Anonymous Was A Woman", and the blog will share some illustrations and some quotes from the book.  Join us to hear how folk art can be a primary source for understanding passt lives.

While we got away from using the blog, we did begin to work with Facebook. Our page has some unusual pathways, so feel free to give us feedback on how you were able to find it.  Note: If you find a profile photo of people dancing, you have the old Facebook page.  If you see Joe Dibble's beautifully carved brown trout at the top of the Facebook page, you have arrived! 

Later this winter, watch for the launch of Catskills Folk Connection's new website that will releive this blog of announcing events.  It will be a very simple, homemade website for now, perhaps only a landing page.  We will use it to make sure you know when square dances are scheduled, when CFC will sponsor food demonstrations by Catskills tradition bearers, when this fall's exhibit, Folk Art in Fiber, will take place, and when we might be holding our lecture series, Catskills Folk Lyceum,  Last year's Lyceum featured two presentations: a talk by Diane Galusha about the experiencs of enslaved Africans in Delaware County, and a panel of Native American speakers and language teachers who discussed the revitalization of their languages and then taught us a few words in Seneca, Mohawk and  Northern Cheyenne.  We hope to gain funding to present a follow up Lyceum this year featuring the next generation of Native language teachers from public and tribal schools. 

But don't watch this blog for event announcements. If you don't find the website just yet, or if you want to convey your experience with CFC's Facebook presence, feel free to contact folklorist Ginny Scheer, 607-326-4206 or 607-238-9162; or gscheer.mcs@gmail.com.