Date: November 19, 2024

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Location: Virtual on Zoom

Price Per Student: $5 Members | $15 Non-members

Workshop Description: Interested in creating a dynamic family story beyond Ancestry.com? Join Elinor Levy, folk arts program manager for AMH, to learn how to collect and preserve family history through interviews, photographs, family keepsakes, and more. Learn how to use your phone as an audio/video recorder and discover free websites for information gathering. All in time to gather family information during the holidays this year.

About the Teaching Artist: Elinor Levy joined Arts-Mid Hudson in September 2016 as the Folk Arts Program manager. A native of Oakland, California, she has bounced around the country from California to Indiana, Georgia, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and now New York. Previously, she worked in Las Vegas as the folklorist for Clark County Parks and Recreation and as executive director of the Northwest Jersey Folklife Project. Having spent the last decade as a folklorist consultant and an adjunct professor, she is excited to be doing public folklore again especially in the culturally rich Hudson Valley. She has a master’s degree in Anthropology from California State University, Sacramento and a doctorate in folklore from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a folk artist in her own right as a third generation knitter on her mother’s side. In the past three years she has added spinning her own yarn to her skills and looks forward each year to helping a friend shear a small flock of Jacob sheep.