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Legends and Legacies:
A Celebration of Public Folklore

Symposium: September 10-11, 2009
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Symposium Photo Album

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, gives a tribute to the life and work of Archie Green. Photo by Stephen Winick, September 10, 2009.

Editor and AFC Board member Judith McCulloh speaks about Archie Green as scholar and author. Photo by Stephen Winick, September 10, 2009.

Eddie Bond, left, and Josh Ellis, of the New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters, performing fiddle tunes at the Archie Green Memorial gathering. Photo by Stephen Winick, September , 2009.

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, with Living Legend awardee, Joseph T. Wilson. Photo by Stephen Winick, September 10, 2009.

Derek Green speaks about his father, Archie Green, as a family man. Photo by Stephen Winick, September 10, 2009.

Mike Munoz discusses Archie Green's work as a Union member and historian. Photo by Stephen Winick, September 10, 2009.

Paula Johnson discusses Archie Green as a folklorist and mentor. Photo by Stephen Winick, September 10, 2009.

Bill Ferris gives concluding remarks at the Archie Green Memorial gathering. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 10, 2009.

Folklorist Barry Bergey, of the National Endowment for the Arts, moderates the panel on the NCTA collection. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 11, 2009.

Jon Lohman, Director, Virginia Folklife Program, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, speaks on the NCTA panel. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 11, 2009.

The Northern Neck Chantey Singers hold a fish net as they perform menhaden fishing songs at the Archie Green Memorial event. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 10, 2009.

Director of the American Folklife Center, Peggy Bulger, right, with Julia Olin, Executive Director of the NCTA. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 11, 2009.

Scott Lilly, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 11, 2009.

Mick Maloney answers a quesiton from the audience. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 11, 2009.

NCTA Audio Archivist Dudley Connell. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 11, 2009.

Blues scholar, Professor Barry Lee Pearson, left, and the creator and the host of the American Routes radio program, Nick Spitzer. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 11, 2009.

Many of the speakers on the panel celebrating the acquisition of the NCTA Collection: (left to right) Dudley Connell, Peggy Bulger, Barry Lee Pearson, Joseph T. Wilson, Andy Wallace, Julia Olin, Jon Lohman, Barry Bergey, and Nick Spitzer. Photo by Megan Halsband, September 11, 2009.