Alex at Central Park

The Alan Lomax Archive

The Alan Lomax Archive is located at the MFA Campus of Hunter College in New York City. The Archive contains:

• Copies of field recordings, radio shows, concerts, and ballad operas by Alan Lomax
• Copies of interviews and discussions between Lomax and artists and colleagues
• DVD copies of videos and films produced by Alan Lomax
• Photographs by Alan Lomax and others
• Alan Lomax's personal collection of 78s, 45s and LPs
• Performance Style and Culture research papers, digital files, and audio samples
• Copies of logs, field notes, letters, manuscripts, research papers, permissions and contracts, correspondence
• A prototype of the Global Jukebox

The originals of Alan Lomax's recordings, videos, photos, and papers were acquired by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress where they are titled the Alan Lomax Collection.

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And then there's The Vera Hall Project made famous in a re-mix by Moby.

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology is a collection of 243 epitaphs - gravestone biographies. Click herehere for a hyperlink version. for an interactive version or

Epitaph Plan Sheet

How to Save the World

The Truth About Nature: How to Save the World, by Dave Pollard
We humans have not changed and cannot change what we are, what we do, how we behave or what we value. We are doomed by the coding in our DNA to continue along our inexorable path of self-destruction, and to inflict large-scale but ultimately transitory damage on our planet in the process.
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