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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/Sheila Grinell (interpreter)"}
Tell them that you're not Deaf.
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{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
Oh, I'm not Deaf, I'm hearing.
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{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
[[LAUGHTER]] Thank you. Jan.
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{SILENCE}
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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/Sheila Grinell (interpreter)"}
My name is Jan DeLap. I was born and grew up in Wisconsin.
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I came here to this area a long time ago to go to Gallaudet College. I'm presently working at the Washington Post as a printer.
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{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Thank you. Dick.
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{SPEAKER name="Dick Moore/Sheila Grinell (interpreter)"}
My name is Dick Moore. I live in Maryland but my old hometown is in Kentucky. I work for the Washington Post also.
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{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Thank you very much.
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And I should mention that these people together constitute, uh, a troop of actors for us here at the festival.
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And that right after this at 12 o'clock and at 1 o'clock they're going to be doing different performances of their skills. You'll get a little sample of that right now.
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Well the topic of our workshop this morning is "What is Deaf Folklore?" I think to begin with it's important to, to say a little bit about folklore.
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Uh, because folklore doesn't just pop up suddenly, full grown. Folklore develops in a community, and maybe a lot of hearing people are not aware that there is a Deaf community.
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In fact there are several Deaf communities just as there are several black communities, several women's communities, several children's communities, several occupational communities, and so on.
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And each one develops its own stories, its own jokes, nicknames, games, traditions, out of the real needs to express itself. Folklore is the art of communities.
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So what I would like to do first is to ask these people to tell you a little bit about what strikes them as important about the Deaf community.
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To tell you just a little bit about what makes it special. The kinds of things that they perceive that are different or special for the Deaf themselves.
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I wonder if one of you would like to start out with something.


Transcription Notes:
I think the moderator is "Jo Radner" but not positive. Hearing an interpreter voicing for Jan DeLap & Dick Moore. Very first line sounds like the interpreters voice to me but no idea who she's voicing for at that point.