The landmark event introduced many hearing visitors to the stories, poems, sign play, jokes and traditions of the deaf community James Deutsch In front of a sculptural display of the , Festival ...

Folklorist Simon Carmel knows all of the popular jokes in the deaf community. For instance, there’s the one about the woodsman who decides to cut down three trees. He cuts down the first tree, calls ...

The 1981 “Folklore of the Deaf” program at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., featured “signlore” experts, storytellers, interpreters, and others who shared experiences, technology ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1981 Festival of American Folklife / Series 6: Folklore of the Deaf / 6.4: Video Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the ...

The audience waved hands to applaud the performers in Deaf tradition. Some stories came from Deaf folklore. Deaf community member Lizzie Mason told a joke about two people looking for a fellow deaf ...

THE old adage embedded in the folklore adage goes, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. However catching a glimpse of the young lady who dominated the disability pageants for close to half a decade ...