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Really?&#8221; to the computer screen.) Sometimes this can be problematic. But last weekend it turned out to be a blessing when I got to see attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/index.html\">Smithsonian Folklife Festival<\/a> in lovely sunny weather featuring temperatures in the low 80s with low humidity instead of the hazy, hot, and humid conditions of the other days I&#8217;d intended to go but hadn&#8217;t. This year&#8217;s featured sub-cultures were the music of Chicago Latinos (a great background to the rest of the festival), Native American basketweaving (it&#8217;s impressive how basketry varied depending where in the country people are), and Alberta, Canada. There was a woman who created artwork from fish scales, bones, and vertebrae, horse and moose hair, and porcupine quills. There was a flyfishing demonstration (where they were catching hula hoops). There was the biggest truck I have ever seen. 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