Word: folklorist
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...Folklorist and quilt historian Laurel Horton, who has lectured and published papers about the quilt code, says she's given up on trying to debunk the myth. Instead, she says she's more interested on focusing on why the story continues to persist. "This whole issue made me realize it's not a matter of one group having the truth and another not. It's matter of two different sets of beliefs. It's made me realize that belief doesn't have a lot to do with factual representation. People feel in their gut that it's true...
...simply not available in straight narrative discourse,” says Preceptor in Expository Writing Kate Chadbourne. Though Chadbourne’s affiliation with Harvard is primarily that of an Expos teacher, her work extends into numerous other fields. She is a teacher of modern Irish, a poet, a folklorist, a musician who plays the piano, the flute, and the harp, and, most of all, a storyteller—a medium in which all of her other interests and talents come to fruition. Born in Saco, Maine to a nurse and a fisherman, Chadbourne always loved music...
...observation deck wasn't open yet on the morning of Sept. 11). Still, people have latched onto it, even creating a backstory that the camera was found in the rubble. "To you and me, that fellow standing on the observation deck is clearly fake," says Barbara Mikkelson, an amateur folklorist who runs the suddenly inundated urban-legend website Snopes2.com "But a huge number of people thought it was real. And they were just horrified...Sometimes I'm tempted to say something like, 'Uh, for the morons in the room,' but my e-mail list snaps me back. Some intelligent folks...
...There are very few jobs with the job title'Folklorist," she says...
...Mitchell both say the field isexpanding. Folklorist can often address issues"that are concerns of the public agencies orprivate sector firms" Joseph says...