Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

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Archival materials

Introduction:

Iowa is an icon of American heartland values. Its main-street towns and farmlands evoke a peaceful vision of America, where the drama of deep personal relationships quietly unfolds. But Iowa is also home to agribusiness, high-tech, and high-skill industries that manufacture computerized combines and fiber optics, and to high-quality service industries from education to insurance. Not without dynamic tensions and social, demographic, and occupational changes, Iowa in its sesquicentennial year of 1996 fostered and nurtured a quiet but steadfast civic pride that turned out whole towns for girls' basketball games, propelled youth into 4-H clubs and adults into volunteer fire companies and social clubs, and joined residents around a morning coffee table, on a Saturday night dance floor, or in a Sunday school. Anyone who witnessed the great floods of 1993, who saw exhausted neighbor helping neighbor, cannot be unmoved by the prevailing sense of community held by the people of Iowa. This sense of community was celebrated by the Festival program on the Mall in the Nation's Capital, and was also evident back in Iowa for the first Festival of Iowa Folklife held on the grounds of the State Capitol Building in Des Moines in August, and in a Smithsonian Folkways recording, Iowa Public Television documentary, and educational materials growing from the Festival and distributed to Iowans in the months following the Festival. The Sesquicentennial year offered a chance to recognize the value of an Iowa that nurtures neighborliness in groups of people - no matter how diverse - who share common concerns and hopes; an Iowa that supports the vital social fabric of relationships on the local level; and an Iowa that validates an underlying belief in the viability of democratic community - all of which have provided such a prominent legacy for the state. The Festival program highlighted the vibrant and diverse cultures of Iowa through the excellence, knowledge, and artistry of its people and offered an opportunity to observe the dynamism of community in the truest sense of the word. The Festival program also recalled the responsibility all Americans have to believe that our public culture and its active celebration through community are valuable and must be supported, if we are to have a future worth living for. Catherine Hiebert Kerst was Program Curator for the Smithsonian Institution and Rachelle H. Saltzman was Program Curator for the Iowa Arts Council; Arlene Reiniger served as Program Coordinator. Iowa - Community Style was made possible by and was produced in cooperation with the Iowa Sesquicentennial Commission and the Iowa Arts Council on the occasion of Iowa's 150th anniversary of statehood. Iowa corporate partners included the HON INDUSTRIES Charitable Foundation; John Deere; The Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc.; and Barr-Nunn Transportation, Inc.

Fieldworkers:

Becky Allgood, American Indian Center - Sioux City, John Berquist, Jay Black, Phyllis Carlin, Cathy Carlyle, Casa Latina - Sioux City, Patricia Civitate, Rex Coble, Ginger Cunningham, Karen Downing, Kristin Elmquist, Tom Evans, Sheri Flanigan, April Frantz, Janet Gilmore, Twila Glenn, Gregory Hansen, Loren Horton, Rich Horwitz, Iowa Academy of Family Physicians, Iowa Commission on the Status of African Americans, Iowa Nurses' Association, Italian American Cultural Center - Des Moines, Donald Jonjack, Cornelia Kennedy, Lee Kline, Mark Knudsen, Mike Koppert, Labor Institute for Workforce Development, Catherine Lewis, Jack Libbey, Jean Lowder, Nancy Michael, Dave Moore, Jerri Morgan and John DeWall, Arnold T. Nielsen, Jane Nielsen, Carla Offenburger, Harry Oster, Janet Parrish, Paula Plasencia, Max Quaas, Harley Refsal, Stephen D. Richards, Maria Alícia Rodríguez, Janice Rosenberg, Erin Roth, Beth Hoven Ratto, Tomasa Salas, Earl Sampson, Cynthia Schmidt, Jim Skurdal, Kumsan Ryu Song, Barb Trish, Caroline Trumpold, Rose Marie Vasquez, Sarah Walker, Theresa Walker, Priscilla L. Wanatee, Cliff Weston, Mike Wiseman, Larry Wood, Michael Zahs

Presenters:

Howard Bass, Phyllis Carlin, Harold Closter, Loren Horton, Richard Horwitz, Rich Kennedy, Catherine Hiebert Kerst, Lee Kline, Jack Libbey, Dave Moore, Leroy Morton, Carla Offenburger, Chuck Offenburger, Deb Ohrn, Steven Ohrn, Beth Ratto, Rachelle H. Saltzman, Cynthia Schmidt, Cliff Weston, Michael Zahs

Participants:

Performance Traditions BECKY & THE IVANHOE DUTCHMEN -- Becky Livermore, 1970-, accordion, vocals, Cedar Rapids, IowaTerry Ard, vocals, trumpet, banjo, guitar, Ely, IowaDan Davies, trumpet, trombone, vocals, Amana, IowaRod Davies, tuba, bass, horn, Mt. Vernon, IowaChuck Stastny, drums, Yankton, South Dakota Daisy Dell Benge, 1925-, mandolin, guitar, Winterset, Iowa Eddie Benge, 1919-, fiddle, banjo, Winterset, Iowa Kevin Burt, 1968-, vocals, Coralville, Iowa Matt Panek, 1968-, guitar, Iowa City, Iowa THE DEER CREEK QUARTET -- Sid Rowland, vocals, Wellman, IowaRay Bender, vocals, banjo, Kalona, IowaLuetta Ropp, piano, vocals, Wellman, IowaDoug Yoder, vocals, Kalona, Iowa Guy Drollinger, 1952-, fiddle, guitar, banjo, dulcimer, Iowa City, Iowa Hanna Drollinger, 1984-, fiddle, Iowa City, Iowa Glenda Farrier, cowgirl poet, Atlantic, Iowa FOOT-NOTES -- Beth Hoven Rotto, fiddle, vocals, Decorah, IowaBill Musser, acoustic bass, vocals, Decorah, IowaJon Rotto, guitar, vocals, Decorah, IowaJim Skurdal, mandolin, vocals, Decorah, Iowa EVERETT KAPAYOU AND THE MESKWAKI SINGERS -- Everett Kapayou, vocals, hand drum, Tama, IowaDennis Keahna, Jr., vocals, Tama, IowaRick Keahna, Sr., vocals, Tama, IowaVerlyn Keahna, vocals, Tama, Iowa THE KARL L. KING MUNICIPAL BAND, Fort Dodge -- Keith Altemier, Fort Dodge, IowaAlan Bridge, Fort Dodge, IowaDan Cassady, Fort Dodge, IowaMartin Crandell, Fort Dodge, IowaHarold Dean, Fort Dodge, IowaMerry Dick, Fort Dodge, IowaJohn Erickson, Fort Dodge, IowaGary Evans, Fort Dodge, IowaDianna Hanna, Fort Dodge, IowaLee Hood, Fort Dodge, IowaMary Jane Johnson, Fort Dodge, IowaInga Lang, Fort Dodge, IowaMonte Leichsenring, Fort Dodge, IowaValerie Mohring, Fort Dodge, IowaStacie Nichols, Fort Dodge, IowaDuane Olson, 1932-, Fort Dodge, IowaNancy Olson, Fort Dodge, IowaLynn Ringnalda, Fort Dodge, IowaRandy Ringnalda, Fort Dodge, IowaRoger Ringnalda, Fort Dodge, IowaRyan Ringnalda, Fort Dodge, IowaDonna Schive, Fort Dodge, IowaAdam Schroeder, Fort Dodge, IowaJoe Seykora, Fort Dodge, IowaDavid Swaroff, Fort Dodge, IowaHarlan Van de Berg, Fort Dodge, Iowa Dwight Lamb, 1934-, fiddle, button accordion, Onawa, Iowa Lloyd Snow, 1924-2004, guitar, Castana, Iowa LOUIS AND THE BLUES REVIEW -- Louis McTizic, 1936-, blues harmonica, vocals, Waterloo, IowaSam Cockhern, bass, Waterloo, IowaToby Cole, keyboards, Waterloo, IowaMichael Flack, drums, Cedar Falls, IowaFrank Howard, keyboards, Iowa City, IowaBarry Schneiderman, lead guitar, Cedar Falls, IowaEtheleen Wright, rhythm guitar, vocals, Waterloo, Iowa THE MATNEY SISTERS -- Shelley Matney Bell, 1959-, guitar, vocals, Dakota City, NebraskaJaimee Haugen, guitar, autoharp, vocals, Gilmore City, IowaHarley Matney, guitar, Dakota City, NebraskaPam Ostapoff, vocals, Sioux City, IowaChris Ramsey, guitar, vocals, Sioux City, Iowa ERNIE PENISTON BAND -- Ernie Peniston, vocals, Muscatine, IowaJoe Collins, guitar, West Chicago, Illinois PSALMS -- Ronald Teague, director, keyboards, Coralville, IowaMarcus Beets, drums, Cedar Rapids, IowaAllen Bell, vocals, Cedar Rapids, IowaSharilyn Bell, 1951-, vocals, Cedar Rapids, IowaMike Cole, vocals, Cedar Rapids, IowaSandy Reed, 1949-, vocals, Cedar Rapids, IowaPaul Tillman, vocals, Cedar Rapids, Iowa SOLIS AND SOLIS, West Liberty -- Adalberto Solis, 1963-, guitar, vocals, West Liberty, IowaEugenio Solis, 1946-, guitar, vocals, West Liberty, Iowa Craft Traditions Annette Andersen, 1934-, Danish handwork traditions, Kimballton, Iowa Nadine Big Bear, 1947-, Meskwaki bead worker, Moutour, Iowa Frances Brewton, 1905-2005, quilter, Des Moines, Iowa Maria Elizondo, -- quinceañera -- doll-maker, West Liberty, Iowa Choua Her, 1975-, Hmong traditions, Oskaloosa, Iowa Shoua Her, Hmong traditions, Oskaloosa, Iowa Steve Kerper, 1950-, duck decoy carver, New Vienna, Iowa Bill Metz, 1933-, Amana tinsmith, Middle Amana, Iowa Marjorie Nejdl, 1936-, Czech egg decorator, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Dominic Rizzuti, 1920-, Italian ornamental ironworker, Des Moines, Iowa Sam Rizzuti, Italian ornamental ironworker, Des Moines, Iowa Rod Seitz, scroll-saw clock maker, Decorah, Iowa Karma Sorensen, 1936-, Danish needle worker, Kimballton, Iowa John Sutcliffe, 1916-1997, woodcarver, storyteller, Audubon, Iowa Caroline Trumpold, 1932-, Amana quilter, Middle Amana, Iowa Dorothy Trumpold, 1912-, Amana rug hooking, Amana, Iowa Jean Adeline Wanatee, Meskwaki finger weaver, Tama, Iowa Foodways Traditions Julie Anderson, butchering, meat smoking, Stanhope, Iowa Richard Anderson, butchering, meat smoking, Stanhope, Iowa Loretta Hegeman, Dutch foodways, Orange City, Iowa Elaine Kane, Dutch foodways, Orange City, Iowa Edward Nejdl, 1932-, Czech baker, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Bill Ohringer, 1952-, Jewish foodways, West Des Moines, Iowa Eunice Stoen, Norwegian foodways, Decorah, Iowa Jane Willie, 1967-, cafe foodways, St. Olaf, Iowa Occupational Traditions William Beacom, 1940-, towboat captain, Sioux City, Iowa Evelyn Birkby, radio homemaker, Sidney, Iowa Bruce Brock, 1950-, auctioneer, LeMars, Iowa John Burns, insurance representative, West Des Moines, Iowa Kevin Crim, caucus organizer, Grinnell, Iowa Alice Duccini, 1943-, net knitting, clamming, commercial fishing, Dubuque, Iowa John Duccini, 1942-, net knitting, clamming, commercial fishing, Dubuque, Iowa Terry Gholson, safety manager, Barr-Nunn Transportation, Granger, Iowa Ed Hanes, 1932-, boat builder, Clear Lake, Iowa Cheryl Johnson, 1956-, family physician, New Liberty, Iowa Lee Kline, radio, broadcaster, Des Moines, Iowa Roger Krugmeier, tool and die worker, Lockridge, Iowa Jack Libbey, towboat captain, Lansing, Iowa Matt Meagher, marketing and public relations, Barr-Nunn Transportation, Granger, Iowa The Mehmen Family (Karmen, Stanley, Kelsi, Kerryann, Kyle), farming, Plainfield, Iowa Kevin Moore, family physician, Des Moines, Iowa Leroy F. Morton, 1920-, newspaper writer, West Okoboji, Iowa Kent Rosenberg, insurance representative, Des Moines, Iowa Bob Smith, trucker, Kirkville, Iowa Howard Lewis Titterington, 1927-, seed salesman, Milford, Iowa The Williams Family (Bruce, Donna, Abbey, Josh, Aaron), farming, Villisca, Iowa THE JOHN DEERE ASSEMBLY -- Art Abend, senior marketing representative in aftermarket parts, Waverly, IowaLynn Arthur, pattern maker, Mount Auburn, IowaMike Hankins, manager of product information and training, Buckingham, IowaMike Lindaman, marketing representative, Waterloo, IowaTed Schaefer, tractor master, Waterloo, IowaMary Swehla, visitors' services coordinator, Waterloo, IowaSteve Towlerton, senior marketing representative for 90-150 horsepower tractors, Waterloo, Iowa Sports Traditions Jody Maske, basketball coach, Newell, Iowa Casey Clark, basketball player, Atlantic, Iowa Linda Lappe, basketball player, Morning Sun, Iowa AJ Nelson, 1979-, basketball player, Newell, Iowa Katie Sorrell, basketball player, Crawfordsville, Iowa Sara Stribe, basketball player, Carrol, Iowa Jacque Voss, basketball player, Carrol, Iowa Christi Williams, 1980-, basketball player, Storm Lake, Iowa

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Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.SFF.1996, Series 3

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