New Hampshire
The collections of the American Folklife Center include a wide variety
of materials from New Hampshire and the New England region. Among its unique
recordings are folksongs, fiddle tunes, oral histories, and traditional
dance music; ballads and folksongs collected by Phillips Barry in the 1930s;
maritime stories and sea shanties collected in the 1960s; and the Helen
Hartness Flanders and Eloise Hubbard Linscott collections of the folk music
of New England.
Collections
Finding Aid: View a complete list of our New Hampshire collections.
Local Legacies: This project provides a "snapshot" of local culture as it was expressed in the year 2000. View New Hampshire's Local Legacies projects.
Veterans History Project: Browse state collections from the Veterans History Project.
Webcast
Brendan Carey Block & Friends: Cape Breton Fiddle Music from New Hampshire. Recorded March 28, 2009. [catalog record] [concert flyer and webcast]
Additional Resources
Folklife Resources: Find state folklife-related agencies, societies, archives, higher education programs, and more, in Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States.
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