Tonight Tuesday February 13 at 7 p.m. on WIOX Community Radio (91.3. FM or www.wioxradio.org) Catskills Folk Connection's radio program Catskills Folk will initiate a discussion of a classic book, "Anonymous Was A Woman" by Mirra Bank. It was published in 1979 when Bank was beginning her career as a creator of documentary videos. She hsd just produced a PBS video documentary with the same title, and felt that she should share as a book the primary source materials on which she based the video documentary. Folklorist Ginny Scheer will discuss the beginnig of the book tonight and will invite a limited number of listeners to appear on the air in two weeks on February 27 to give their insights into the rest of the book. Contact Ginny at 607-326-4206 or 607-238-9162 or gscheer.mcs@gmail.com if you would like to be a discussant..
Here are some of the primary sources, in both words and in images, of the folk art created by women in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Lucy Perkins, Pastel Portrait by Sara Perkins
Sampler by Mary Antrim
Introduction to "Anonymous Was A Woman" by Mirra Bank
All illustrations and teexts above are for educational use only. Plese do not copy or re-use.
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