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1992

Folklore

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Molloy, Janice Louise (Fa 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1992

Molloy, Janice Louise (Fa 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 189. Paper (24 p.): "On the Road: Vernacular Architecture as a Creative Response to Economic Opportunity," written by Molloy and Trudy Balcom for a Western Kentucky University class. The paper focuses on the Horseshoe Motel in Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes tape transcription (11 p.).

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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 35, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History Dec 1992

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 35, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

When we brought out Tom Tilton: Coaster and Fisherman back in 1984 (actually it was Northeast Folklore -XXIII: 1982) we included a story about a Captain Pinhead on page 62, just the way Tom told it to Gale Huntington. The book hadn't been out long before I got a smoklngly angry letter from one Robert O. Walsh saying he was Captain Pinhead and that story was all wrong and he wanted us to do something to set the record straight. The only thing I could think of was to suggest he write up what really happened and we'd publish it …

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Interview With Katherine Forrester And Jimmy Linville (Fa 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 1992

Interview With Katherine Forrester And Jimmy Linville (Fa 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Katherine Forrester and Jimmy Linville conducted by Trudy Balcolm and Janice Louise Molloy on 13 November 1992. From folk studies student project titled “On the Road; Vernacular Architecture as a Creative Response to Economic Opportunity,” concerning the Horseshoe Hotel in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 42, No. 1, Marion Lois Huffines, Amos Long Jr., Robert P. Stevenson, Robert L. Leight Oct 1992

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 42, No. 1, Marion Lois Huffines, Amos Long Jr., Robert P. Stevenson, Robert L. Leight

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Trunk in the Attic was a Window
• The Rural Pennsylvania-German Home and Family
• The Happy Story of Georges Creek
• Duties of a Rural School Board at the Turn of the Century
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

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The Lost Tribalism Of Years Gone By: Function & Variation In Gay Folklore In Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City Novels, Jimmy Browning May 1992

The Lost Tribalism Of Years Gone By: Function & Variation In Gay Folklore In Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City Novels, Jimmy Browning

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis intends to demonstrate that, because of the unusual circumstances of its writing - a semi-journalistic piece produced during a period of crisis in the real-life community fictionally depicted - Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series stands as an unusually accurate and reliable ethnographic source for information concerning the gay male subculture of San Francisco in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, not only the practice and behavior themselves, but also reflecting their personal and communal function. The methodology employed in demonstrating this thesis is necessarily subjective. Like gay folklore scholar Joseph P. Goodwin in More Man Than …

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 41, No. 3, Nelson M. Williams, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Henry J. Kauffman, Ned D. Heindel, Linda H. Heindel, Simon J. Bronner Apr 1992

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 41, No. 3, Nelson M. Williams, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Henry J. Kauffman, Ned D. Heindel, Linda H. Heindel, Simon J. Bronner

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• "Love, David"
• Studebaker and Stutz: The Evolution of Dunkard Entrepreneurs
• Latches and Locks
• H. L. Mencken and "A Girl from Red Lion, PA"
• Mac E. Barrick (1933-1991): An Appreciation
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

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Ua68/6/1 Broomsedge Chronicles: Farm Living In South Central Kentucky, Wku English, Wku Glasgow Apr 1992

Ua68/6/1 Broomsedge Chronicles: Farm Living In South Central Kentucky, Wku English, Wku Glasgow

WKU Archives Records

A collection of essays written by English 100 Freshman Composition and English 200 Introduction to Literature students attending WKU Glasgow from 1983 through 1992 taught by Loretta Murrey. Student authors are: Joyce Alford, Joyce Amer, Jeff Ballard, Sandie Barrick, Jerry Bean, Shela Bingham, Brent Bledsoe, Steven Bunch, Billy Carver, Angela Cowan, Karen Decker, Betty Dillahay, Dibbie Dilley, Amy Doyel, Jeff Duncan, Craig Emmitt, Barbara England, Kathy Fancher, Amanda Gillon, Michelle Glover, Jeanelle Gooch, Faye Johnson, Celena Martin, Sonia Martin, Tracy Mathews, Ila Moody, Angela Morris, William Myatt, Judy Parker, Dorothean Powell, Maria Pulanco, Diane Rather, Jennifer Reneau, LaDarra Rich, Pam …

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 41, No. 2, Nancy Kettering Frye, William B. Fetterman, Annette Lockwood Jan 1992

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 41, No. 2, Nancy Kettering Frye, William B. Fetterman, Annette Lockwood

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Meetinghouse Connection: Plain Living in the Gilded Age
• Paul Wieand's Contributions to Pennsylvania German Folk Theater
• Amish Cottage Industries
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

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Changes In The Folk Performing Art In Egypt And The Impact Of The Mass Media, Adela Mahmoud Sami Esmat Jan 1992

Changes In The Folk Performing Art In Egypt And The Impact Of The Mass Media, Adela Mahmoud Sami Esmat

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Ua68/14/2 History Of The Folk Studies Program At Wku, Wku Folk Studies & Anthropology Jan 1992

Ua68/14/2 History Of The Folk Studies Program At Wku, Wku Folk Studies & Anthropology

WKU Archives Records

Timeline of significant events in the evolution of the Folk Studies Program at Western Kentucky University.

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Ua68/14 History Of The Folk Studies Program, Wku Folk Studies & Anthropology Jan 1992

Ua68/14 History Of The Folk Studies Program, Wku Folk Studies & Anthropology

WKU Archives Records

Timeline of significant events related to the WKU Folk Studies Program from 1922 to 1992.

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