Society Folklore picks Eugene for conference site
By Jim Davis
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Chain saw sculpting anti the Saturday
Market will lie among a wide range of top
ics disi ussed at a national Folklore i on
ferani <• held in Kugene this week
More than 800 folklorists from around
the world will attend the annual meeting
sponsored bv the American Folklore St* i
etv. a< i online to University Folklore Din*
tor Sharon Sherman
Hundreds of presentations on subjects
such as folk healing in Southwest and deal
ing with unemployment will he given at
the conference — the largest in t!n» nation.
"This is wall) hi#," Sherman said . who
was recently nominated and el« ted to the
Txecutive Hoard of the ATS "This is tug,
not only for our Folklore department, hut
for our i ommunity
"It is a bit rare that a community the size
of Kugene would get a convention like
this, ' I .aura Danielson said, a Uine Com
munity College folklore instructor, who
will fiddle at a dam e held during the i on
vent ion
The i omentum will liegin when a lun
ited number of folklorists travel to Sisters
to meet Skip Armstrong, a chain saw
sculptor, in o pre-conference tour on
VVednesda y
These folklorists will see Armstrong's
ornate wood sculpturing, and tour the five
storv house i onstrui tei! In Armstrong
Thursday through Suturdas. folklorists
will attend presentations ranging from
forums to v identapes and films on varying
aspei ts of folk lore.
the spe< lal theme for this upcoming
i onferem e will be, "Folklore. C'i\i 1 Rights
and Sin i.d Instil e Many of the presen
tations will deal with ethnii al perspet
tnes in Folklore
The i onferem e will conclude on Sun
d«\ with n a post cunferemr tour to trio
coastal town of Now port. One
I he Amorti an folk loro S«h iotv de< id
od upon I'.ugene after its 1<187 mooting in
Albuquerque. Now Mexico
"Wo organized th« program for that
mooting, and it was in tho middle of
now hero," Sherman said, "Once we got
leu k, I wrote to the AFS about Kugeno as
a possible site for the folklore i onfenuu e
l hc\ wrote fiat k to sa\ they would love to
meet in Kugeno not only because
Fugene is sm h a wonderful place, Init
because the Folklore program at the l'(>
was one of the top programs in the nation "
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