Friday Odds & Sods Graduated Cum Laude

Hello, all! I hope this holiday weekend finds you well! Even though our Labor Day was specifically designed to hinder the international solidarity of the working classes, I must admit that I still enjoy having a little break at the end of a long, hot August. And if nothing else, it is good that the sartorially-challenge have at least some guidance to picking out their wardrobe for the winter. All this aside, grab a beer, take a load off your feet, and enjoy this week's Odds & Sods!

• Two depictions of societies in transition between old ways and new: The end of feudalism in the Channel Islands and the end of the boom times of gaming in Atlantic City
• From the Folkways Section of the archives: The history of y'alld and the current state of folk music
• Finally, the secret history of how bubonic plague almost destroyed New York.