I am a new user of Wikipedia having just signed up in June of 2010, so please cut me some slack if I make any errors.
My primary interests are as follows:
- American Folklore and Folk Practices (especially Braucherei or "Pow Wow", hoodoo/rootwork and Appalachian folk practices)
- Fifing
- American history (particularly the Colonial and Revolutionary War time periods)
- Folk practices of the British Isles and Ireland
- Religious movements of the "Second Great Awakening" and the "Burned Over District" such as spiritualism, Mormonism, the Oneida Community, Millerites
- The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing (Shakers)
- Radical Pietism of the 18th and early 19th century - particularly those communities found in Pennsylvania