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I was surprised to learn that Jane Beck had founded the folklife center 
only 20 years ago at Middlebury College.  I have on my shelves what may 
be considered a beginning about 80 years earlier -- Helen Harness 
Flanders' books, "A garland of Green Mountain Song" (she compiled and 
ed. it back in 1934 as Green Mountian Pamphlet No. I,  a part of Pop 
Peach's efforts to save Vt. folklife) and her "Vemont folk-songs & 
ballads," (ed. with George Brown, Stephen Daye Press, 1932), another of 
AW Peach's efforts. Mrs Flanders, daughter of a Vt. governor and wife of 
a US senator began collecting ballads with Phillips Barry about 1930 and 
deposited her papers at Middlebury College. Were they part of an archive 
established by the Committee on Vermont Traditions and Ideals?  And 
don't forget the charming little book. "Vermont chap book," with 
delightful woodcuts and hand set in type up at Breadloaf in 1941.   
Marcus McCorison 

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