Camp Woodland Reunion

Saturday July 14, 2012, 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM

University at Albany, SUNY, Campus Center Assembly Hall

1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222

**DON'T MISS** Folk Festival, Sunday, July 15, 2012, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., Parish Hall, 109 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY

Pete Seeger (above) at Camp Woodland, Phoenicia, NY, 1940s Norman Studer Papers
	Pete Seeger leading Camp Woodland children in the song, "We Shall Not Be Moved," 1962.

Activities include:

• The Norman Studer Papers will be available for review including the Camp Woodland archive, materials such as correspondence, diaries, student writings, audio recordings, 16mm films, and photographs. Studer's extraordinary audio collection of reel-to-reel audiotapes captures local Catskill informant interviews and a wide array of regional and national folk singers performing at Camp Woodland folk festivals. All of the Camp Woodland audio archive will be available for listening at the event.
• Lecture/discussion on the historical period, the oral history/folklore of the Catskill area and the role of the SUNY archive (Dr. Gerald Zahavi, University at Albany Professor of History, Ellen McHale, Director New York State Folklore Society and Brian Keough, Head of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany).
• Panel Discussion on the Norman Studer Vision of a Living Democracy (Led by Joan Studer, Bill Horne, Sue Rosenberg and others).
• Oral history interviews of Camp Woodland alumni by Ellen McHale, New York Folklore Society, and Dr. Gerald Zahavi, University at Albany Professor of History, who will be recording alumni memories of camp.
• Sessions to sing the songs collected in the Catskills and other songs sung at Camp Woodland: an informal sing with non-performing campers joining with performers and the singing of the cantatas sung at Catskill Folk Festivals. Lonesome Train, We’ve Come from the City, Boney Quillen, Sojourner Truth. Conducted by former Music Counselors.
• Square and Folk dancing (the ones done at Camp Woodland).