Show Me Folk
Missouri quilters reflect on sharing their craft on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. by Kirk Kramer for the News Leader, August 13, 2023
At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, we enjoyed meeting Ozarks’ own son Kirk Kramer who resides now in Cottage City, Maryland (originally of Greenfield, Missouri and Miami, Oklahoma). Kirk let us know he wrote the following…
Aaron Holsapple of Jefferson City, Mo to Demonstrate at 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Aaron Holsapple, White Oak Basketmaker Jefferson City, Missouri Forester Aaron Holsapple is known as “the tree guy,” fitting for his love of the “tree to basket” tradition. He credits three Missouri Ozark families for guiding…
David Scrivner of Springfield, Mo. to Perform at 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
David Scrivner, Ozarks Old-time Musician Springfield, Missouri To get good at any tradition you have to be really committed to it. David Scrivner, 2021 Many thanks to Ozarks old-time musician Nathan Lee McAlister for…
Marideth Sisco of West Plains, Mo. to perform at 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Marideth Sisco, Ozark Storyteller & Musician West Plains, Mo. “I was a storyteller before I had language. My earliest memories are front porches and firesides, the nighttime filled with the voices of my family conveying…
Gigmaker Anthony Martin of Winona, Mo. to demonstrate at 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Anthony Martin, Gigmaker Winona, Missouri As a child, Anthony played often near his late grandfather’s workshop, where the elder Martin turned out forged gigs, used for night fishing on Ozark riverways. Anthony mimicked his grandfather’s…