Penton Forge, October 2021. During the first week of October, Andrea and I were on the road. We visited Change Islands to do a People, Place...

Group in the unmarked cemetery. On Thursday Dale and I met with three archaeologists from Memorial University, and three residents of Ba...

Pat Carew, 2014. Photo by Emma Tennier-Stuart. In September 2014, as part of Memorial University’s Folklore Field School, Emma Tennier-S...

The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and Youth Heritage NL are co-organizing a workshop in field-recording for heritag...

In the second week of September Dale, Heather, and I spent several days in Cupids with the new folklore students. Each year Memorial Un...

I'm in Grand Falls today, helping sort out some oral history collections with the Grand Falls-Windsor Historical Society (more on that...

Do you have memories about the concerts, times and social customs in Petty Harbour? The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador ...

This July, the Trinity Historical Society & Wooden Boat Museum of NL are partnering with us at the Intangible Cultural Heritage o...

I've been doing some research for an article on Intangible Cultural Heritage brokers, facilitators and mediators, which I'm writing ...

This Sunday, graduate students from Memorial University’s Folklore Department will be sharing some of their fieldwork discoveries at a c...

I'm back in the office after spending the end of last week at the Alberta Museums Association's annual conference, where the theme t...

  In the 2013 August/September issue of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Update: students start the Folklore 6020 field school in Quidi V...

A couple people have recently asked for information about what equipment to get for doing oral history interviews in Newfoundland and La...

Yesterday, part of the ICH team was in the Salmonier Line/Colliers/Holyrood area conducting fieldwork research for our traditional wells ...

Do you remember the Grenfell Mission? If so, Heidi Coombs-Thorne would like to talk to you.  Heidi is a postdoctoral researcher w...

Most new students spend their first weeks of school in stuffy classrooms. But in a new program through the Department of Folklore at M...

"Overall, some 307 communities were abandoned between 1946 and 1975, and over 28,000 people relocated. Captured in film, poetry, vi...

Day 2 - Corner Brook We had a day full of baskets and interviews. Nicole Penney did two interviews in the morning, one on a fabulou...

We started off the ICH road trip with delays in St. John's. Arriving at the airport at 6am, everything was delayed due to freezing rain ...

We're now officially on the road. Public folklore intern Nicole Penney and I are heading to Deer Lake, for the first of our interview...