As I've said in these threads a few times, for 22 years I sang thousands of performances and workshops in the schools all over Northern Illinois (USA) --- mostly the eight counties around Chicago and in that fair city. My workshops included a map I gave out to students---of the USA with 5 specific geographic areas. Instead a place names, songs from the areas were printed close to where the songs came from--or where the song was found by a collector. Students colored in the area in 5 colors and we travelled East to West much like the way the U.S. was settled.

This map can be viewed in my "Art's Place" folk photos website -- along with the map Sam Hinton created from his repertory after he saw what I'd done.

If anyone can link to it, it would be appreciated by me a whole lot.

Art Thieme