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LOGGER'S SHEET 96 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.