The Maine Folklife Center will develop a web site called “The Maine Song and Story Sampler.†The site will present audio recordings of traditional songs and stories on the internet with accompanying transcriptions of the text and musical notation —thus creating a global audience for these unique traditions. Visitors to the site will be able to click on a map of the Northeast, find their community, and click on a link to a song or story from their community. Each song and story will include contextual information: the name of the singer and collector, date and place of collection and other interpretive information, including photographs. See our Song of the Week tab for a preview.