Sights & SoundsJim Bordwine and Baron Bordwine
Nestled in the southern Appalachian Mountains, Saltville is named for its unusually high number of salt marshes, or, as locals call them, salt licks. Saltville’s natural salt deposits have influenced …
Sights & SoundsFrances Davis’s Fried Apple Pies: A Culinary Artform
The Folklife Showcase is thrilled to welcome back our favorite fried apple pie makers, Frances Davis and her sister, Annie James. They will be back at the friers making their …
NewsJoey’s Hot Dogs on the menu for Showcase
Joey’s Hot Dogs of Richmond, Virginia. We are thrilled to announce an exciting addition to the Showcase this year. We are bringing one of our favorite true folk masters of …
Sights & SoundsFrancisca Ramirez Acosta and Laura Ortiz
The word mole can refer to any of a number of richly flavored sauces traditionally used in Mexican cuisine, or to dishes based on these sauces. Varieties of mole include …
Sights & SoundsJim King and Jackson Cunningham
Beekeeping is the care of honeybee colonies, commonly in hives, to stimulate crop pollination and to ensure the production of honey and other hive products, including beeswax, propolis, and royal …
Sights & SoundsDudley Biddlecomb and Peter Hedlund
Because of the Chesapeake Bay’s ideal brackish waters, its oyster population was once one of the most plentiful in the nation, and oyster harvesting was long a booming industry throughout …
Sights & SoundsGail Hobbs-Page and Kyle L. Kilduff
Gail Hobbs-Page was given her first pair of goats as a child growing up on a North Carolina farm. “I loved their milk, and I loved the idea that I …
Sights & SoundsBill Savage and Bob Savage
While many associate the Eastern Shore with the work of watermen, it is in fact a predominantly agricultural region. Bill Savage grew up on his family’s farm near Painter, Virginia, …
Sights & SoundsJay Eagle and Tyler Eagle
Stunningly beautiful Highland County, Virginia, is the southernmost site in the United States for the production of maple syrup, where “Sugar Camps” have traditionally been small-scale, family-run operations. The syrup-making …
Sights & SoundsBill and Chuck Shelton and Rob Shelton
Thomas Jefferson experimented with eighteen or more varieties of apples at Monticello, only a few miles from the orchard faithfully tended by the Shelton family in North Garden, Virginia. The …
Sights & SoundsDeborah Pratt and Teddy Bagby
For communities on Virginia’s Northern Neck, the oyster fishery was perhaps the largest and most influential industry from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Men and women employed by the industry …
Sights & SoundsFrances Davis and Annie James
Known as “Fried Apple Pies,” “Dried Apple Pies,” or even “Fried Dried Apple Pies,” these locally made pies seem to have a ubiquitous presence throughout Southwest Virginia, appearing on the …
