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2011 Festival
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Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day seven of the Festival.
Congressman Sam Farr and journalist Maureen Orth sat on the Peace Porch yesterday, talking with Festival visitors and Peace Corps program curator Jim Deutsch about their lives after the Peace Corps.
Peace Corps Participant Assistant Meredith Adhikari accompanied the Peace Corps participants to a reception honoring their contributions to this year's festival
The Smithsonian Institution Archives, the record keeper of the history of the Smithsonian
This installment of Festival Audio features a live evening concert performance by Fred Wesley and the New JBs
Photos from the July 7 evening concert of Fred Wesley and The New JBs.
Hamadoun (Simbè) Sankaré wrote this poem and read it at a July 6 reception organized by the Peace Corps to honor the participants in the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Peace Corps program.
I have been working since 1987 at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and have curated too many Festival programs to mention.
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