Editor's Postscript

With this issue, I conclude twelve years as editor of JFR. Working on the journal has given me an opportunity for on-going intellectual exploration of various perspectives on the study of vernacular material while at the same time providing a community in which to do so. The community near at hand has been composed of astute and contributory editorial assistants—Maria Hetherton, Karen Duffy, Ray Cashman, Lisa Gabbert, Danille Christensen Lindquist, Cassandra Chambliss—and a managing editor, Inta Gale Carpenter, whose contributions, in so many aspects of the journal, have been significant as well as exemplary. Velma Carmichael served ably for many years as subscription manager. Members of the editorial board as well as the corresponding editors have participated in numerous ways—reading submissions, soliciting and encouraging contributions, providing valuable advice in a timely fashion. The community of JFR also includes all of the scholars who have served as readers for manuscripts as well as those individuals, all over the world, who have contributed their research to us for possible publication. Our community, in the broadest sense, is world-wide, as this particular issue illustrates. I would like to think that our collaborate endeavor might model cooperation in the world at large: it has simultaneously expanded my world and made it smaller.