Record #:

7291

Author(s):

Amspacher, Karen

Abstract:

Connie Mason has been on the staff of the North Carolina Maritime Museum for fifteen years as a curator of history. Her numerous responsibilities include folklorist, historian, musician, songwriter, and the producer of folklife programs, such as Traditional Trades and Pastimes and Coastal Folkways Day. She was nominated for a Brown-Hudson Award by the Maritime Museum and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum. She received the award “for her generous and imaginative efforts in collecting, interpreting, and exhibiting Down East folklife for the people of North Carolina.”

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004, p58-61, por

Subject(s):

North Carolina Folklore Society--Brown-Hudson Folklore Award