Mammoth Cave
In 2013, Brent Björkman of the Kentucky Folklife Program and Jon Kay of Traditional Arts Indiana were awarded the Archie Green Fellowship from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. This fellowship is awarded each year to select projects dedicated to occupational folklore research. Björkman and Kay’s project, Ranger Lore: The Occupational Folklife of Parks, focuses on the lives and work of national and state park rangers in Kentucky and Indiana.
Björkman turned his attention to Mammoth Cave National Park and conducted fieldwork with over thirty current and former park employees.