Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Arts and Humanities Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

1990

PDF

Anthropology

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 32, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History Dec 1990

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 32, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

Readers of this Newsletter will be saddened to hear of the death of Dr. Helen Creighton, Canada's foremost collector of folksongs, on Tuesday, December 12, [1989], in Halifax. She was 90 years old. There is little I can add to Stephen Pedersen's fine article from the Halifax Chronicle-Herald (12/16/89) reprinted below beyond a couple of recollections of my own.


Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 33, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History Sep 1990

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 33, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

The Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History is pleased to announce two new additions to its staff: Teresa L. Hollingsworth of Berea, Kentucky, who is filling the newly created position of Folklife Coordinator, and Mary E. O'Meara of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., who will replace Alicia Rouverol as the Archives' Associate Director. Ms. Hollingsworth, a graduate of the Folk Studies Program at Western Kentucky University, was the staff folklorist at the Kentucky Folklife Program at Berea College, and conducted extensive folklife surveys along the Ohio and Kentucky River Valleys.