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The Observer Vol. 4, Issue No. 3, 12/1961, Gorham State Teachers College

Observer, The

GSTC Night School -- Annual Christmas Convocation -- Gorham Night At Portland Symphony -- Response In Affirmative For Program -- The Holly Tea -- Freshmen Elect Class Officers -- Kimane Nyoiki Speaks To SCA-Newman Club -- Four Gorham Seniors To Take Exam -- Christmas Comes To Gorham -- Lots Of Digging Going On In This Class -- Doctor Bailey In Retirement

The Observer Vol. 4, Issue No. 2, 11/1961, Gorham State Teachers College

Observer, The

Governor Reed Speaks At Convocation -- Denmark Visits GSTC -- Miss GSTC 1962 -- Play Received With Enthusiasm -- A Visitor's Day At Gorham State -- Pizza Hop Planned For Saturday -- Campaign At Success!! -- Life At Woodward Hall -- What's Going On

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, J. William Frey, Vincent R. Tortora, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Alfred L. Shoemaker, John A. Hostetler, Laura Huyett, Andrew S. Berky, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Alan G. Keyser, Richard Shaner, Alliene Dechant

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Antiques in Dutchland
• Antique or Folk Art: Which?
• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Amish Barn Raisings
• Building a Pennsylvania Barn
• Water Witching
• Amish Family Life: A Sociologist's Analysis
• Straw Hat Making Among the Old Order Amish
• Bread and Apple-Butter Day
• Schnitz in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Dutch Country Scarecrows
• The Man Who Was Buried Standing Up
• Living Occult Practices in Dutch Pennsylvania
• Farewell to Ollie

The Observer Vol. 4, Issue No. 1, 10/1961, Gorham State Teachers College

Observer, The

Mayor Campaign Begins Monday -- Our Growing Campus; More Changes At GSTC -- The First Four Days Of Gorham -- Foreign Student On Campus -- The Freshmen Are Leafing…Or Ferning -- The Higher Learning In American: Part II -- Take Your Choice -- Music Maestro! -- Industrial Arts Development Council -- Dramatics At Gorham -- Your Homecoming Queen Candidates

A Study Of The Modern Academic Novel In America, Grace O. Burton

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Charles Godfrey Leland: The American Years, 1824-1869, Ralph Carlisle Smith

American Studies ETDs

In view of the frequent reliance on Leland's books and articles, I have, on the suggestion of my graduate committee, attempted in this dissertation to evaluate Leland and his writings in order to establish some basis for the accuracy of his statements and the general reliability of Leland as a witness. I have also presented many of his views expressed in books and papers not readily available to or often considered by other students of his times. Though the initial approach to this study of Leland was made objectively or, if subjectively, only sympathetically prejudicial, I must admit that with …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora, Don Yoder, Robert C. Bucher, Paul R. Wieand, Amos Long Jr., Clarence Kulp Jr., Gary S. Dunbar, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Alan G. Keyser, Christ Geiger, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Richard Shaner

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Township Weavers of Pennsylvania
• Amish Funerals
• The Bush-Meeting Dutch
• Steep Roofs and Red Tiles
• Carpet Rag Parties
• Fences in Rural Pennsylvania
• Folk Festival Program
• A Study of the Dialect Terminology of the Plain Sects of Montgomery County, Pa.
• Henry Chapman Mercer, Pennsylvania Folklife Pioneer
• The "Glingelsock"
• Sauerkraut in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Collectanea

Gorham State Teachers College Commencement Program 1961, Gorham State Teachers College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State Teachers College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Commencement Exercises. Held in Gorham and Portland, Maine June 4 and 5, 1961. Address given by Dr. J. Wendall Yeo, Vice-President for Student Affairs, Boston University.

Portland University Commencement Program 1961, Portland University

Commencement Programs

Portland University Commencement program 1961. Commencement was held Friday, June 2, 1961, at Willison Church in Portland, Maine. Commencement speaker was William S. Linnell of Linnell, Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Thaxter. Honorary Degrees Conferred upon: William S. Linnell and Edward A. Myers.

Jack London's Heroes: A Study Of Evolutionary Thought, Roy W. Carlson

American Studies ETDs

The important thing, in terms of this study, is that evolutionary speculation had a popular audience and a relatively large audience. Not only did people who had never seen copies of The Origin of Species or The Descent of Man feel perfectly familiar with their contents and qualified to talk about them, but serious thinkers were reading scientific and pseudo-scientific books at an unprecedented rate. For instance, Spencer's books had a sale of 368,755 copies in the authorized editions in the United States between 1860 and 1903. The testimony of John R. Commons as to Spencer's popularity is well known. …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 1, Earl F. Robacker, Alan G. Keyser, George L. Moore, Edith Patterson, Nicholas Bervinchak, Russell S. Baver, Edna Eby Heller, Mary C. Kreider, E. Estyn Evans

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Tin: With Holes In
• Nineteenth Century Shooting Matches
• Dunkard Life in Lebanon Valley Sixty Years Ago
• Nicholas Bervinchak
• An Album of Etchings of the Pennsylvania Coal Region
• Corn Culture in Pennsylvania
• Rye Bread Lehigh County Style
• "Dutchified-English": Some Lebanon Valley Examples
• The Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival: A European Report

Letter From Harold C. Shank To Alfred L. Shoemaker, January 18, 1961, Harold C. Shank

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Harold C. Shank addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated January 18, 1961. Within, Shank provides personal stories surrounding the holidays in Berks and Lancaster counties, including "Belsnickles," annual auctions, cherry trees and Santa Claus.

Note On Amish "Old Christmas", January 6, 1961, Unknown Author

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten note on the reverse of a newspaper clipping from the Ohio Daily Record entitled, "'Old Christmas' Today Is Serious 2nd Holiday For Amish Residents Of Area", by Clif Bushnell and dated January 6, 1961. The note speculates about whether the Amish have always used this date or whether it was influenced by changes in the calendar.

The Man Who Plucked The Gorbey: A Maine Woods Legend, Edward D. Ives

Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers

The Canada Jay labors under the official name of Perisoreus canadensis canadensis but it is more commonly called gorbey, moose-bird, meat-bird, greasebird, Whiskey Jack, Whiskey John, Hudson Bay bird, caribou bird, venison hawk, grey jay, woodsman's friend, or camp robber. Maine woodsmen usually call it either gorbey or moose-bird. It is a native of the northern coniferous forests, which means that it is found all through Canada but only in the northernmost areas of the northernmost states of the Union. In the Northeast, it is found in northern Maine and over most of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Ernest Thompson …

The Records Of The First Church In Boston 1630-1868, Volume 1, Richard D. Pierce , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

LISTS
Pastors and Teachers
Ruling Elders
Deacons
Meeting Houses

CHURCH RECORDS
VOLUME ONE
Admissions to Membership, 1630-1778; Church Discipline, Dismissals; Occasional Church Votes, 1630-1738
Church Votes, 1719-1785
Baptisms, 1630-1847 [1666]

Volume 1 of 3; contains baptisms through Sept. 25, 1666

The Wood-Pile, Robert Frost

James Hearst Documents

The poem The wood-pile by Robert Frost sent as a Christmas greeting in 1961. Wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason.

Outline For An Article On Apple Butter, Alfred L. Shoemaker

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten outline composed by Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated circa 1961. The list compiles various aspects of apple butter ranging from terminology and history to uses and appearances in rhymes and other literary forms.