The Soul of a Folklorist Thomas Harms the first Met to pitch

the first Met to pitch a no-hitter (Johan Santana)

the human cannonball who claimed television broadcasts of his act threatened his livelihood

its aroused passion

Drawing on oral histories that reveal memories and experiences of several neighborhood families

the divine feminine wisdom

The Soul of a Folklorist Thomas Harms the first Met to pitchIn the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the US saw a growing awareness of representational politics following the civil rights, women's, gay and lesbian, anti war, and environmental justice movements, and, like most fields, folklore became increasingly cognizant of these cultural and political shifts. The Soul of a Folklorist chronicles the growing pains folklorists felt as the field engaged in these new and different ways of thinking about expressive culture,