Press Release
The Florida Humanities Council
Barbara O’Reilley, Communications Director
[email protected]
727-873-2012
November 2, 2016 10:00 a.m.
Fernandina Beach resident Peggy A. Bulger has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Florida Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit organization that funds and sponsors public programs engaging Floridians in explorations of their history and cultural heritage, communities and stories, issues and ideas.
Bulger is Director Emerita of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, where she served as director for 13 years until her retirement in 2012. She has a deep attachment to Florida, having worked with the Florida Folklife Program from 1976 to 1989 (and holding the distinction of being the Department of State’s first professional folklorist). She then became the regional folk arts director for the Atlanta-based Southern Arts Federation for 10 years before moving to the Library of Congress.
“We are delighted and honored to welcome Peggy Bulger to our board,” said Janine Farver, executive director of the Florida Humanities Council, independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “Very few people know Florida’s cultures and folklife like Peggy. She brings a lifetime of work, both here in Florida and at the Library of Congress.”
Bulger says there was never any question that she and her husband, a fourth-generation native Floridian, would retire in Florida. “I am one who fits the folk saying, ‘Once you get Florida sand in your shoes, you will return.’”
Bulger was elected to a three-year, renewable term on the Board.