Ellen E. McHale is executive director of the New York Folklore Society and adjunct lecturer at Utica College. She is author of Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack and coeditor (with Elizabeth Tucker) of New York State Folklife Reader: Diverse Voices, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
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