I started to work in a factory when I was about fourteen years old. Well, I quit school about fourteen. I worked on my lace just off and on. I didn’t thing it was going to be that important because when I was working on small pieces at Bendix,...
I’ve been most fortunate in life. I don’t have any formal education above third grade and I’ve managed to keep it together, get along with everybody, and most people, I’d say 99% of them have treated me right. I guess it’s a kind of “give and take” proposition. What...
I remember one set of grandparents. My maternal grandparents. They had come to America early. They had escaped the massacres or the genocide of the Armenian people. But my father’s people were almost, I would say, seventy-five percent lost in that time period. The only people that I knew...
Canray Fontenot, Black Creole Fiddler and National Heritage Fellow, was 76 years old when interviewed by Robert Atkinson in 1994. This is how he describes the interview: “After I had arranged to meet him, it took me a few tries to locate Canray’s cottage off the beaten path in...
My grandparents were deceased when I was born. As I grew older, my interest was in my culture and history. I understand that my grandfather on my father’s side was a Medicine Man. They called him Old Man Nevaquaya. People would tell me about him. He was a blind...
They say I was born in Mayfield, a cottage somewhere. I met my grandmother, Dad’s Mamma, I met her about twice in my whole life. I was a little girl and I remember meeting her, and then about when I was 12, an’ my Daddy came back from East...
I don’t remember my grandfather. All I know is what my mother told me. She never had too much to tell, because I don’t think that she really remembered much about him either. One thing she told me, she said, “You see that picture? That’s exactly him, everyday. He...
https://folkways.si.edu/interview-with-nati-cano/latin-world/music/video/smithsonian https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/natividad-cano Natividad Cano, Mexican American Mariachi Musician and National Heritage Fellow, was 61 years old when interviewed by Robert Atkinson in 1994. My birth, the delivery was normal, other than being very poor, in my hometown. There were no stories about when I was born, except that...
https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/mary-mitchell-gabriel Mary Gabriel, Passamaquoddy Basketmaker and National Heritage Fellow, was 86 years old when interviewed by Robert Atkinson in 1994. My mother gave me away when I was two years old to my grandparents. She just didn’t want me. Even as I grew up and older, she still...
https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/eppie-archuleta Eppie Archuleta, Hispanic Weaver and National Heritage Fellow, was 72 years old when interviewed by Robert Atkinson in 1994. My Grandpa was a great weaver. He was one of the first weavers in Chimyon. They were all weavers there and all his kids were weavers and...
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