WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- The Library of Congress issued the following news release:
The Library of Congress will open "Alive in Many Hands: The American Folklife Center at 50," a new exhibition showing how living traditions carry memory, identity and community across generations. The exhibition, opening Sept. 18, explores traditions of music and dance, storytelling, craft, foodways, work, celebrations and everyday community life.
Presented as part of a yearlong celebration of the American Folklife Center's 50th anniversary, the exhibition brings together more than 150 objects, photographs, recordings and films to show how traditions are preserved, adapted and passed from hand to hand. Through materials spanning generations and communities,...