Slide of the Walker-Ford Singers, from San Antonio, Texas, at the Texas Folklife Festival. They were directed by Oscar Ford. The singers are all African American and are all clapping with the rhythm.

Slide of two members of the Polish National Alliance Dancers from San Antonio, Texas posing at the Texas Folklife Festival. Genny Kosub Kraus (left) and Victor Barczynski are standing in a dancing pose. They are dressed in folk Polish outfits.

Slide of a man performing a Scottish sport called sheaf tossing, as sponsored by the San Antonio Scottish Society, at the Texas Folklife Festival. People are scattered around a man holding a pitchfork that he used to toss a burlap sack stuffed with hay.

Slide of a man performing a Scottish sport called sheaf tossing, as sponsored by the San Antonio Scottish Society, at the Texas Folklife Festival. People are scattered around a man holding a pitchfork that he used to toss a burlap sack stuffed with hay. There are two sacks in the air.

Slide of two boys, who are members of the Gulf Coast Scandinavian Folk Dancers, dancing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are facing each other making hand gestures. They are dressed in Scandinavian folk outfits.

Slide of members of the Gulf Coast Scandinavian Folk Dancers, dancing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are dressed in Scandinavian Folk Outfits.

Slide of two members, one male on female, of the Gulf Coast Scandinavian Folk Dancers dancing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. They are side by side with one pair of hands joined above their heads and the other pair joined in between then. They are wearing traditional Scandinavian clothing.

Slide of members of the Gulf Coast Scandinavian Folk Dancers, from Galveston County, Texas, standing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are all standing side by side onstage and all dressed in folk Scandinavian outfits.

Slide of the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival. Allen Thibodeaux and his French Ramblers Band playing in front of the entrance to the Institute of Texan Cultures. There are huge bunches of balloons in the background.

Slide of the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival. Balloons are in the air and being released by the exhibit floor guides of the Institute of the Texas.

Slide of the opening ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival. There is a young girl holding a large bundle of balloons above her head. there is another girl and man in the background.

Slide of Alice Allen holding a spindle. She is demonstrating drop spindle spinning techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Slide of Alice Allen holding a spindle. She is demonstrating drop spindle spinning techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are people in the background watching the demonstration. There is a table directly behind Allen that has many different supplies items on it.

Slide of Alice Allen, from Carson County, Texas, holding a bundle of wool yarn used for drop spindle spinning. She is demonstrating drop spindle spinning techniques at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are people in the background watching the demonstration. There is a table directly behind Allen that has many different supplies items on it.

Slide of Bill Brent, from Hull, Texas, making rope using a piece of equipment at the Texas Folklife Festival. There is a young boy watching him.

Slide of David Cholis (left) helping a young girl throw pots at the Texas Folklife Festival. Cholis is straddling a table with a spinning wheel where an unfinished tall vase stands. The young girl is playing with a bowl of slip, a liquid of made of part clay and part water.

Slide of Michael Davenport, a coppersmith from Leander, Texas, using a tool to modify an unfinished copper piece. This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Slide of Vivian Hamlin (right) making cascarones, which are painted eggshells filled with confetti, at the Texas Folklife Festival. On her worktable, there are egg cartons, painted eggs, paint brushes and finished cascarones. There is also a young girl holding a cascaron in her hand and Hamlin is reaching for the girl's hand.

Slide of the Alamo Area Square Dancers performing onstage at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are boys and girls and young men and women dancing. They are all in folk outfits and the boys of the Texas flag on the backs of their vests.

Slide of a girl competing in the watermelon seed spitting contest. People surround the girl and a plastic tarp on the ground that is the intended landing place for the seeds. This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Slide of a girl competing in the watermelon seed spitting contest that was sponsored by Lulling Watermelon Thump. People surround the girl. She is sticking out her folded tongue and making a bubble in her cheeks to launch the seed. This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Slide of a woman holding a plate of cut watermelon for a watermelon seed spitting contest that was sponsored by Lulling Watermelon Thump. There are many people around and behind her for the contest, including a man with a microphone who is announcing for the contest. This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival.

Slide of a girl in a long sleeved red shirt spitting a watermelon seed out for a contest sponsored by the Lulling Watermelon Thump. There are people behind her to watch. This was taken at the Texas Folklife Festival

Slide of a young girl playing with the hand crank to a corn sheller in the Children's Toyland area of the Texas Folklife Festival.