TRADITIONS SouthJersey

Pierre Janet

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TRADITIONS SouthJersey

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• Nombre de lectures: 126
• Langue: Français
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“Weaving Cultural Heritage:  Romanian Rugs From  Oltenia, Maramures and Moldova Regions” Romanian rug from Maramures region by Victoria Berbecaru. May 8, 2009 through  September 20, 2009 The exhibition features a private collection of Romanian traditional rugs handwoven by village artists in Romania who have preserved and still practice not only old techniques of weaving, but also traditional ways of preparing dyes from natural materials. Most of the rugs showcase traditional designs and motifs, which have special meanings and their presence on the rugs is believed to bring good luck and pros- perity to the homes where the rugs are used. Some other display items are re- productions of old museum pieces and are woven in a way that would secure the continuation of the local traditions and their transmission to the younger weavers in the Romanian villages. There are also several pieces, which are woven in modern style and the traditional patterns there are represented in stylized forms.

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The Mission of the Down Jersey Folklife Center is to research, document, and present folk and traditional cultures of New Jersey’s southern eight counties.

WheatonArts strives to make its programs, events and exhibitions accessible to all visitors. Please call us at least two weeks in advance so we can accommodate your needs. The Down Jersey Folklife Center is a division of Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Funding has been made possible in part from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. WheatonArts has also received grant support from the NJ Historical Commission, a division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State and from the NJ Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism.

SouthJersey TRADITIONS W HEATON A RTS Down Jersey Folklife Center at Year 3 Volume 1

An Irish Saint–Known To All

By David Iams and gan’s Wake, into more Michael Perez or less permanent exile, Oh when the saints go sent the Irish to settle far marching in, who do you and wide. think is most likely to be Argentina, according leading their number? to published accounts, To judge from his has 500,000 families of worldwide popularity, Irish extraction living „twould have to be none there, the fifth largest other than St. Patrick. Irish community in the  March 17, the day he world. Many were died, is observed with Catholics fleeing British parades not only in protestant power and Philadelphia, New York, drawn to a country that Boston and Chicago, but remains officially Catho- also in such unlikely non lic. Irish locales as Copenha- Part of it is the sym- gen, Stockholm, Mu- bolism of St. Patrick nich, Buenos Aires, himself, a real person, St. Patrick as traditionally Moscow and Beijing–  who did real things in depicted, with bishop’s not to mention the Guin- crook and mitre and real time. ness drinker‟s informal, bright green robe.  There are other Irish ubiquitous parade- saints, notably St. Brigid, alternative: the Irish pub crawl. the next most venerated saint after  Why? Patrick, and whose name date falls on  Part of it is the ubiquity of the Irish. February 1. Butler‟sLives of the Emigrations, whether they wereSaints piously recounts how in her caused by political upheavals, eco- youth she successfully prayed to God nomic calamities like the potato fam- to transform her natural beauty (later ine of the 1840s, or the perception of restored) into ugliness so that she intellectual suffocation that sent James Joyce, author ofUlysses andFinne- Continued on Page 8

INSIDE From The Director……………Page 2  Community/Family Traditions...Page 6 Lexicon………………..……….Page 3 Material Culture…………..…...Page 7 Artist In Profile……...……….. Stories, Memories, Page 4 Legends..…..Page 9 Music, Dance, Performance…. DJFC Folklife Story Page 5 ….......…….Page 10