Anne,
As you intimate, 'twas a time when the word "folk" meant quite q bit to many of us here. It still means those things to some of us. As Utah Phillips says so often, "The past didn't go anywhere!!"

Really, it's still here, waiting for you to find it. If you sweep the scum of the present off the top of the pond, it will be much easier to look into the depths where the nuggets that were found by the great collectors are readily available. And we can marvel at their fine state of preservation...

Art Thieme