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LOGGER'S SHEET
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LOGGER: Lori Taylor
REEL NUMBER: 9 STAGE: AFS
DATE: 6/24/1988 PRESENTOR: Howard Sacks
GROUP NAME: Strangers in Your Town
REGION/STYLE:
PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Howard Sacks (sociologist, folklorist-Gambier-OH)
Clifford Hardesty (fiddler-West lafayette-OH)
Worth long (folklorist-Atlanta, GA)
Frank Proschon (folklorist-Washington, DC

CONTENTS
1. Intro-What is a stranger?
WL-cultural stranger-uses guide system to overcome mistake?
2. get to know people through contacts, person to person
3. FP-mechanics of living ("where do I get a battery around here?")
4. CH-what do you do when a Folklorist knocks on your door?
he's used to it; invite them in, find out about them
5. does it change his place in the community Not a bit.
When is a folklorist no longer a stranger?
6. FP- when someone tells you what they thought the first time you showed up on their doorstep.
7. WL-when people start looking for him
8. What kind of obligations do you feel when you leave?
WL-he keeps in touch with a lot of people (Smithsonian WATTS line.)
9. CH-now he's the stranger. In DC, "it makes me feel one of you."
10. FP-sadness balance by what he gives (acculturation of recent immigrants?"
11. Have you ever been a folklore spy?
12. FP- yes, to orient himself, at a public event but not under cover.
13. HS-first step can be to make the folklore work meaningful to the people-tp translate, to contextualize.
WL-has put on a different hat, but not COVERT.