In an effort to preserve history, record footsteps, and to support efforts connected to literature and the art of storytelling, Rising Sparrow Press offers hard to find resources and links to projects with this end in mind.

Collector's Haven /Rare Finds     http://www.bookride.com/

Epistolary Writing                                                                           www.jimandellen.org/trollope/epistolary.biblio.html      (bibliography/references/resource)    

Folk Life and Ethnographic Field Collections  http://www.loc.gov/folklife/onlinecollections.html           (online folk life collections: Library of Congress, The American Folk Life Center)http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ethno.html                                  (online ethnographic field collections: Library of Congress The American Folk Life Center)

Women's History                                                                                    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/                               (reference, archives, rare out-of-print books)www.edouglass.org/pfp/                                                                  (collecting women's contributions to history making)www.greatwomen.org/book_liv_leg2.php                                 (honor a woman you know in the Book of Lives and Legacies for her gifts and contributions)

Storytelling                                                                                            www.h-net.org/~oralhist/                                                                   www.42explore2.com/oralhst.htm                                               www.dickinson.edu/oha/                                                               (Oral History Association)

Myths/Legends                                          http://www.myths.com/pub/myths/myth.html (extensive reference)

Literature and the arts                                                                      www.rfkmemorial.org/                                                                  (Robert F. Kennedy, literature, arts, human rights)

Writer's Project (1930's)                                                  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html               (federal writing project 1930's. Check out Learning Page)

Railroads                                                                                    http://www.rrgs.org/  (history)   

Rivers and Waterways/Emigration Patterns http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gentutor/rivers.html              (this one is loaded with references and info)                      

Black Migration Pathways                                           http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html   (abolition, authors writing project, migration, history...)

 Maritime                                                                         http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/                      (maritime history, Great Lakes)

Steamboats                                                                               http://www.steamboats.com/museum/index.html

Theatre Preservation                                                      http://www.lhat.org/  (historical theatre preservation)

Historical Preservation                                              http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/preserve.html    (architecture, barn, funds, heritage, journals, projects...)

Music                                                                                         http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/orgmusic.html    (anthropology, ethnomusicology, folk art, resources...)

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