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
wvi
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