FOLKLIFE OF WIREGRASS GEORGIA: OF COMMUNITY ART AND LIFE

"Whether or not you know it, community culture is all around you! Sometimes called 'folklore' or 'folklife,' community culture is the living expression of culture in everyday life--anyone's culture--learned and passed on informally from person to person....Everywhere people take the experiences of their lives and transform them into song, story, decoration, ritual and celebration--examples of what folklorists call "expressive culture." When such expressions communicate the shared experiences, thoughts, and feelings of a group, and are passed on to others, they become traditions." Explore Your Community poster, American Folklife Center and Rural School and Community Trust, 2001.

Wooden toys made by Clyde Paul of Irwin County.

Photo by David Stanley, 1977.