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Spring-Summer 2016 Volume 42: 1-2 The Journal of New York Folklore Sesame Flyers International Dreams of America: A Photo Essay Remembering Bill Nicolaisen 1927-2016 Chinese Immigrants In the Spa City New York Heritage: A Digital Archives NEW YorRK FOLK LORE socrery wv i ct ne WOUCES Features 3. Sesame Flyers International by Molly Garfinkel 10 ‘The Dream of Ametica / El Suetio de América: Separation & Sacrifice in the Lives of North Country Latino Immigcants Photos by Lisa Catalfamo-Flores 17 Remembering Bill Nicolaisen (1927-2016) by Libby Tucker 21. Recovering the Stories of Chinese Immigrants in the Spa City by Yiyun “Evian” Pan 30 New York Heritage: A Digital Archives by Susan D’Entremont 36 Camp Woodland Memories Inspire A Poem by Mickey Vandow 41 Critical Thinking, Wisdom, and Paying Homage to the Human Experience by Amy St. Clair 44. Seasons in Schuylerville, New York by Jeromy McFarten Departments and Columns 7 Upstate by Den Berggren 8 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin 16 Good Spirits by Libby Tucker 27 Voices of New York: Dan Berggren by Christopher Mule 34 ALNSBALSMO: A Native Voice by Joseph Bruchac 38 Astist Spotlight: Eniké Parkas Cover: Family in Mexico with photos a of thoi olatve, away from home, faehwarenine ‘working inthe US. See the photo Soe essay, "Dream of America," that y bbagins on page 10. Photo by Lise Cataltamo-Flores. Spring-Summer 2016, Volume: C steal Thinking, Wadewe. ame Homage to the Lice (Editor Now: This excerpt is fzom a lon- ger essay prepared by Amy St. Chir for her Honors Philosophy class, “Ideas Past and tanght by Prof, Daniel Polak, at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY, in Fall 2013. Prof, Polak asked his class to use critical thinking to diseuss Stephen Alcorn's article, “Drawing the Line: Re- Sections on the Importance of Deswing bby Hand in an Taceeasingly Digital Age,” (Vices, Spring-Summer 2015). The assign- ment requited the studeats to apply to what they had learned—the concepts, themes, and cerms from the philosophers they had studied —to this discussion] Present? broughour human evolution, we have been constantly striving towarel make ing the use of technology in our lives greater and moze complex. Beginning with the use of rocks as too tothe invention of the wheel, ‘which revolotionized agriculmte, technol- logy has expanded to present-day atempss 1» create artificial intelligence (AT) chat can | lear, chink, and feel. As modern technolo- gies develop, and we become more and more dependent upon them, what must we sacz- fice when we adopt them into all pasts of our lives? Stephen Alcorn’ article “Drawing the Line” discusses technology aad is tole in creation, Alcorn informs us throughout his essay that something important is lost when we forget the “essential role that tactile val tees have played in the practice of drawing Since time immemorial” (Alcor 2015, 16) His amicle is prognostic fora greater pattern hheppening all over the word, one that has bbeen developing for hunclreds of yen. Could the people who began the Ta- dustrial Revolution foresee the ecological BY AMY ST.CLAIR effects and loss of life caused by the tse of factory systems, chemical manufacturing; machine tools, coal burning, and mining? We ntow know that the practices that began during that sime have had widespread and

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