![]() ![]() We are thrilled to be part of bringing the Legends & Lore program to Vermont, and we are also excited to partner with legendary Vermont author and folklorist, Joe Citro in the effort! Joe will be working with VFC to evaluate all proposals for Legends & Lore markers in the state. VFC will serve as a grant evaluator for the Pomeroy Foundation’s expanding national Legends & Lore Marker Grant Program, helping to put the cultural heritage of Vermont in the spotlight. Established by the Pomeroy Foundation in 2015, Legends & Lore promotes cultural heritage by placing markers-such as the one featured above-at sites associated with local traditional culture (for example: folklore, customs, legends, beliefs, traditional art, music and dance) in communities across the United States. Pomeroy Foundation on their Legends & Lore® Marker Program. His novel Shadow Child is currently in development as a motion picture. The Vermont Folklife Center has partnered with the The William G. CITRO Joe Citro has been recording commentaries for Vermont Public. ![]() "While history might be the body of a state, legends and lore are its spirit." - Joe Citro ![]()
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SYFY's adaptation of Grant Morrison's Happy! serves up a demented dark comedy that squeezes the last bit of juice from the tired antihero formula.Ī few years ago, you couldn’t swing a dead cat and not hit a TV show with a brooding, difficult but “totally awesome” man as its lead. ![]() ![]() ![]() And Sociology Lecturer Dan Lungu authored Sînt o babă comunistă!/I’m a Communist Biddy! (2007), which vividly captures the ethos, lifestyles and daily facts of the former regime (“the queues for food, the food rations, terribly long queues especially in freezing winter” ) and inspired a film “where you don’t quite know whether to laugh or weep. PhD (in manele!) Adrian Şchiop ventured to publish one of the very rare “gay stories” in Romanian fiction, tackling highly sensitive issues of race, social status and… love in Soldaţii. Ex-corporatist Simona Antonescu (Debut Book Award from the Romanian Writers’ Union/2015) writes historical novels bringing to life Romania’s Ottoman past, for instance, around specific places like Hanul lui Manuc/Manuc’s Inn, a tourist attraction in Bucharest’s old quarter, Lipscani. And so here we are, in the 21st century, when Romanian literature, very much alive and in the making, is experiencing tremendous diversity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this indelible work of contemplative storytelling, Cole Arthur Riley invites us to ponder the site of soul by examining our capacity to rest, wonder, joy, rage, and repair, and finding that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it.Īt once a compelling spiritual meditation and a tender coming-of-age narrative, This Here Flesh speaks potently to anyone who suspects that our spirit and stories might have something to say to us. 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