Upcoming NCFS Events! 

Folklore 2.0: NCFS Professional Development Workshop Postponed. The workshop will be rescheduled in early 2010. If you have questions please contact us

NCFS members gathered for two great recent events, a Professional Development Workshop and our Annual Meeting.

Thank you to all members who made these events such a success!
Click Here to see photos from these two events.

Founded in 1913, the North Carolina Folklore Society promotes the appreciation and study of North Carolina's folklife. In its early years, members guided by Frank C. Brown of Duke University collected songs, stories, customs, and superstitions for The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, the most extensive collection of a state's folklore.

In 1948 Society Secretary-Treasurer Arthur Palmer Hudson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began a state folklore journal, whose editors have included distinguished writers Richard G. Walser and Guy Owen of North Carolina State University.

Through its annual meeting, programs, awards, and publications, the North Carolina Folklore Society encourages the study and preservation of local folklife and provides a state folklife information center and resources center. Membership is open to the public.

The Society worked with the NC Center for the Book and the NC Humanities Council to develop "How Folkllife Crafts Our Literature, Lives, and Communities," a "Let's Talk About It" reading and discussion series. For more information, visit www.nchumanities.org/ltai.html.

The Society maintains the NCFOLK listserv. To join, send an email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ECU.EDU, with a blank subject line and with "Subscribe NCFOLK Your Name" as the message.

NCFS receives funding from the North Carolina Arts Council .



The Society also publishes a resource listing as part of this website. To submit items for the resources list, send iems to :

N.C. Folklore Society
P.O. Box 6271
Durham, NC 27715

or email N.C. Folklore Society Resource Listings