Natalie M. Underberg, Program Coordinator of the University of Central Florida's Cultural Heritage Alliance has had another busy year. Her program has completed a number of projects, including additions to the Folkvine Project, an innovative Web site that presents Florida folk artists on the Internet. The team will focus on creating podcasts and adding three new artists to www.Folkvine.org: Nicario Jimenez, a Peruvian retablo (portable altar) maker; Eileen Brautman, a Jewish Ketubah (wedding contract) maker, and Jan Zebrowski, a lace maker.

UCF's Heritage Alliance has also created "The Turkey Maiden Video Game: An Educational Neverwinter Nights Module." This educational computer game is based on a variant of Cinderella collected by folklorist Ralph Steele Boggs in 1930s Ybor City, Florida and it appears in Kristin Congdon’s award-winning collection of Florida folktales entitled Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales.

The Turkey Maiden game comes with a curriculum packet created in conjunction with Arts for Complete Education. The project first began with a UCF In-House research grant from the College of Arts and Humanities.

Nancy Solomon of Long Island Traditions announced the publication of "Long Island Traditional Architecture 1600-1870: A Teacher Resource Guide." This publication introduces middle school teachers and students to Long Island's architectural legacy of mid-19th century most homes, mills, stores and places of worship.

Based on the Long Island Social Studies 7th grade curriculum, this new publication reviews the building practices and architectural forms built by original indigenous Long Island population along with structures such as African American slave housing, windmills and gristmills and places of worship. The book provides historical background essays, data and a bibliography for each subject. To order this resource call Long Island Traditions at (516) 767-8803 or log on to www.longislandtraditions.org. Cost is $45 including shipping and handling.

Riki Saltzman , Folklife Coordinator at the Iowa Arts Council, has adapted the "Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions" into an on-line curriculum guide. This resource won the 2006 AFS Folklore and Education Section Dorothy Howard Prize. It can be accessed at http://www.uni.edu/iowaonline/folklife/intro/index.htm.

Digital media documentation is a cornerstone of the annual Discovering Community Teacher Institute and can be found at www.discoveringcommunity.org. An especially strong lesson is “Teachers in Our Community.” This lesson was designed by institute alum Sarah Pulaski under “Discovery Projects,” and it is appropriate for elementary students.

Folkstreams continues to add new films that can be access on-line. Tom Davenport would like to hear how people are using the documentaries and can be contacted via www.Folkstreams.net.

"The Arkansas Traveler: Music from Little House on the Prairie" is the second CD from Pa's Fiddle Project, headed by Dale Cockrell of Vanderbilt. He writes, “There are 126 songs embedded in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, a treasure trove of detailed information on music and music-making in 19th-century America. The first volume in the series, 'Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder,' was recently awarded by the NEH with a place on the 'We the People Bookshelf' for 2007, the first recording to be so honored.” The CD is available in stores and www.pasfiddle.com.

Don Sanders, a musician on the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artist Roster, has a new bilingual kids’ CD, "El Mosquito in My Kitchen," http://cdbaby.com/cd/donsanders.

Alan Govenar of Documentary Arts has two new books for young people out, both from Candlewick Press. Stompin’ at the Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller is a picture book illustrated by Martin French. Still swinging and teaching, Norma Miller began dancing as a teenager in the 1930s as one of the original performers of the Lindy Hop. The book is based on Alan’s interviews with this NEA National Heritage Fellow.

Extraordinary Ordinary People: Five American Masters of Traditional Arts profiles five NEA Heritage Fellows through interviews and vivid photographs and is suitable for all ages. For more information, visit Alan's Web site at www.docarts.com.

Joan Saverino announces that the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has received an Interpretation Implementation grant of $150,000 from the Heritage Philadelphia Program (HPP), funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of the Arts, as well as a large grant award from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. This grant will support the PhilaPlace Project, a collaborative neighborhood history and culture project that Saverino is directing.

The project uses place as an important touchstone for memory, history, and culture. Conceived as a collaborative community-based neighborhood history and culture project, it aims to create a large web resource with related programming that illuminate and educate about Philadelphia neighborhood spaces and sites that represent the past and hold meaning in the present. These resources will include an interactive Web site, heritage tours, programming events, and K-12 educational materials that educate about the past and living cultural heritage to promote neighborhoods and sites within them that hold meaning for today.

Exploring the role that place plays as a repository of memory and change, the project focuses on adaptive re-use --sites reused by newer immigrants that arrive and replace earlier immigrants or former industrial sites recently converted into living spaces - as a way to address issues of neighborhood change, gentrification, and interethnic relations now and historically.