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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 27, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

Professor J. Barre Toelken, Director of the Folklore and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Oregon, will deliver the Marshall Dodge Memorial Folklore Lecture Thursday, February 21, at 7:30 p.m. in 100 Nutting Hall on the University of Maine (Orono) campus. His topic will be "You've Got to Watch His Lips: Image and Meaning in American Indian Humor."

Barre Toelken is one of the most distinguished folklorists in the business. He's been President of the American Folklore Society, Editor of the Journal of American Folklore, Chairman of the Folk Arts Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, and …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 34, No. 1, Hans Trumpy, William T. Parsons, Marion Lois Huffines, Robert P. Stevenson, Jane Adams Clarke

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• American News in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Swiss Almanacs: An Overview
• The Stuff of Which Folksongs are Made: Dialect Poetry of Lina Somer (1862-1932)
• Word Gain and Loss in the English of the Pennsylvania Germans
• The Autograph Album: A Victorian Girl's Best Friend
• Cobwebs on My Mind: Untangling Family Relationships
• Aldes un Neies

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 4, Mark R. Eaby Jr., Barbara Strawser, Eleanor Dudrear, Albert Dudrear Jr., Edward Eirikis, Gerri Sproesser, Carol Nagel, Vivian Aron, Marie George, Ann S. Burrows, Richard F. Kurr, James K. Beard, Jeanne Reifel, Tom Kloss, Jeffrey M. Fiant, Ivan E. Hoyt

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• I Remember Well: Thirty-Five Years of the Kutztown Folk Festival
• Furniture Graining
• Old Fashioned Clear Toy Candy
• Metal Etching
• Stenciling
• Baskets and Basket Weavers
• Apple Butter: Then and Now
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• 20th Annual Quilting Contest
• Quilts and Quilt Marking
• The Art of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• Music on the Main Stage
• Scratchboard
• Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art in Wood
• The Windsor Chair
• Hex Signs

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 3, Terry G. Jordan, Robert G. Adams, Paul R. Wieand, Karl J. R. Arndt, Karen Guenther

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Moravian, Schwenkfelder, and American Log Construction
• The Search for Our German Ancestors Continued: The Breunings of Mohringen
• Where the Groundhog is King
• The Louisiana Passport of Pennsylvania's Charles Sealsfield
• A "Garden for the Friends of God": Religious Diversity in the Oley Valley to 1750

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 26, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

There is much activity in the northeast in folklore and oral history. On April 28 the New England Association of Oral History will observe its tenth anniversary at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, the site of the founding meeting. The New England Task Force on Folklife is continuing its work in promoting an awareness of the various research projects in folklore and folklife in the New England region. The Apprenticeship Journal was christened in Rockport in the Spring of 1983, and the Massachusetts Council of the Arts and Humanities has a full-time Folk Arts Coordinator. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology …

The Boys Of The Island : P.I.'S In The Maine Lumberwoods, Edward D. Ives

Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers

On the evening of March 19, 1984. a large crowd of Island folklore enthusiasts braved a snowy night and the threat of a power blackout to attend a lecture by "Sandy" Ives, author of books on Island folksong makers Larry Gorman and Lawrence Doyle. The event was memorable; Professor Ives shared his subject with new friends and old, told the stories and sang the songs. The lecture was part of the Second Annual Island Lecture Series. "Leaving Home: Migration from P.E.I."

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 2, Joseph S. Miller, Hilda Adam Kring, Susan P. Martin, Elizabeth M. Safanda, William T. Parsons, Harold C. Miller, Amos B. Hoover

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Children of the Spirit, Not of the Law: Themes in Anabaptist Theology
• Religious Symbols in a Symbol-less Society
• Games and Activities of the New Wilmington Amish School Children
• The Amish Quilts of Lancaster County 1860 to 1930
• Francis Daniel Pastorius, Public Servant and Private Citizen
• Life with Grandfather: Growing Up in a Plain Pennsylvania German Community in the 1920s
• A Tear for Jonas Martin: Old Order Mennonite Origins in Lancaster County