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Passing Down The Rolling Pin: Lefse, Memory, And A Norwegian-American Identity, Rebecca Garbe
Passing Down The Rolling Pin: Lefse, Memory, And A Norwegian-American Identity, Rebecca Garbe
Scandinavian Studies Student Award
This paper explores the intersections between memory and food-making and how they inform a Norwegian-American cultural identity. Based on fieldwork done in June and July of 2019 in Fosston, Minnesota, I use lefse, a Norwegian potato-based flatbread, as a focal point, for analysis. I argue that lefse-making in Fosston acts as a medium through which residents engage with a collective memory of an immigrant heritage. This traditional food-making, I assert, relies on knowledge passed down through and across family lines allowing food-makers and eaters to experience an embodied connection to their cultural past. Investigating my own Norwegian heritage, I draw …
Around The Dinner Table With Grazia : Food And Cooking In The Work Of Grazia Deledda, Grazia Deledda, Neria De Giovanni, Simonetta Milli Konewko
Around The Dinner Table With Grazia : Food And Cooking In The Work Of Grazia Deledda, Grazia Deledda, Neria De Giovanni, Simonetta Milli Konewko
French, Italian and Comparative Literature Faculty Books
Around the Dinner Table with Grazia. Food and Cooking in the Work of Grazia Deledda, by Neria De Giovanni, highlights the love of Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) for Sardinians’ traditions, historic events, and food. It demonstrates how they follow an agropastoral economy and an extremely simple way of preparing food; they use vegetables and products from livestock farming and especially sheep; they respect traditional recipes, such as pane currasau, porcetto, and seadas, and conventional customs to conserve food as the preservation of fruit in the home attics. The selections of Deledda’s literary works that Neria De Giovanni …
Uren, Doris Et Al. (Fa 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Uren, Doris Et Al. (Fa 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1233. Student folk studies project titled “Märchen [Fairy tales],” which includes survey sheets with a description of a fairy tale collected in Kentucky and Tennessee by students at Campbellsville College, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of a fairy tale, informant’s name, age and address. The first name of the collectors Asher and Wall were not provided.
Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1202. Collection of papers written by students in Professor Barry Kaufkins’ Foodways class (FLK/ANTH 388) at Western Kentucky University. While a majority of the papers focus on Easter traditions, other topics of note include immigrant foodways traditions, fundraising efforts, community organizations, tailgating, and sorority life. Papers also include photographs taken by students.
Thomas, Norman (Fa 1129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Norman (Fa 1129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1129. Paper titled “Traditional Recipes” in which Norman Thomas details how to prepare various dishes ranging from opossum and porcupine to maple syrup and molasses taffy. Paper is based on information collected by Thomas from close relatives and family friends.
Osborne, Lois (Fa 1121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Osborne, Lois (Fa 1121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1121. Student folk studies project titled: "Good and Bad Luck Beliefs," which includes notecards with brief descriptions of traditional beliefs about good and bad luck in Cook County, Illinois, Dearborn County, Indiana, Knox County, Tennessee, and the counties of Barren, Fayette, Hardin, Hart, Hopkins, Jefferson and Nelson in Kentucky. Notecards may include a description of the traditional belief, informant's name and address, motif index number, and text classification.
Higinbotham, Barbara (Fa 1114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Higinbotham, Barbara (Fa 1114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1114. Student folk studies project titled: “Folk Medicine and Remedies,” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of folk medicine and remedies in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Sheets may include a brief description of folk remedy, belief, traditional practice, informant’s name and address, and motif index number.
Mansfield, Sherry R. And Bruce Greene (Fa 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mansfield, Sherry R. And Bruce Greene (Fa 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1112. Student folk studies project titled: “Just a Man—Captain William Hicks” which includes an interview of C. Jeff Hicks, the son of Confederate Captain William Hicks. The interview includes a description of the life of the son and his father while living in Barren County, Kentucky and Sumner County, Tennessee.
Leopold, Beth (Fa 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Leopold, Beth (Fa 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1113. Student folk studies project titled: Smith’s Grove and Miscellaneous Tales” which includes survey sheets with descriptions of the traditional belief about the naming of Smiths Grove in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of the belief, informant’s name, address, and motif index classification. A second small project by Leopold includes survey sheets of folk tales told by her grandmother, Rosa Leopold, in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Chance, Nancy Fowler (Fa 1110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chance, Nancy Fowler (Fa 1110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1110. Student folk studies project titled: “Butter making” which includes survey sheets with descriptions of the traditional butter making process in Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of pictured equipment, traditional practice, belief and motif index number.
Finn, Marty (Fa 1089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Finn, Marty (Fa 1089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1089. Student folk studies project titled: “A Collection of Folk Medicine,” which includes survey sheets and index cards describing the traditions and practices of folk medicine in Mason County, Kentucky. Sheets may include informant’s name and address, folk remedy, and text classification.
Routt, Brenda H., Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Routt, Brenda H., Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1086. Student folk studies project titled: “The Folklore of Household Antiques,” which includes a description of house furnishings and their uses in Hardin County, Kentucky. Survey sheets include recipes, photos, names, uses, and descriptions.
Seidelman, Charles Allen (Fa 1049), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Seidelman, Charles Allen (Fa 1049), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1049. Student folk studies project titled: “A General Interest Survey of the Dutch in America,” which includes interviews and survey sheets with brief descriptions of Dutch folk practices in Okaloosa County, Florida, in Sioux County, Iowa, in Van Buren County, Michigan, and in Whatcom County, Washington. Sheets may include the recipe, song, belief, motif index number, and informant’s name.
Powell, Joseph, B. 1949 (Fa 1020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Powell, Joseph, B. 1949 (Fa 1020), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1020. Folk studies student project titled: “Christmas Customs in My Family,” which includes descriptions and survey sheets of Christmas practices in Grayson County, Kentucky. Survey sheets include brief descriptions of customs, stories, and beliefs, informant’s name, and motif index number.
Montgomery, Susan H. (Fa 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Montgomery, Susan H. (Fa 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1011. Folk studies student project titled: “Molasses Making.” Project includes interviews and survey sheets with brief descriptions of molasses making in Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief or item, informant’s name, and a photo along with jokes and recipes.
Riddle, Karen (Fa 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riddle, Karen (Fa 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1009. Folk studies student project titled: “Making of Molasses,” which includes a description of the molasses making process and related material in Clinton County, Kentucky, with interviews, photos and folklore by motif index number.
Interview With Henry Scott Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Henry Scott Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an oral history interview done with Henry Scott related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 157. This collection includes cassette tapes of interviews with eight women used as research for Jimmy D. Browning’s paper “A Tie That Binds: Contemporary Funeral Foodways In A Rural, Central Kentucky Community.” Two copies of the paper are also included in the collection.
Rocky Hill [Kentucky] Station Architecture (Fa 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rocky Hill [Kentucky] Station Architecture (Fa 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 75. “Rocky Hill Station Architecture,” vernacular architecture class project concerning Rocky Hill, Edmonson County, Kentucky (est. 1859). Includes information on architecture, social life, economic life and railroads.
Geiger, Alison Anne (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Geiger, Alison Anne (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 14. Interviews conducted by Alison Geiger with Grace (Meador) Galloway about her quilting. Includes step-by-step instructions, with photographs, demonstrating the construction of a cathedral window quilt block. Grace's life is also discussed, including raising her family on a farm in Warren County.
Amaro, Maria E. (Fa 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Amaro, Maria E. (Fa 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 171. "The Use of Food in Family Circus", a paper written by Maria E. Amaro for a WKU folk studies class. "Family Circus" comic strip from the "Park City Daily News", Bowling Green, Kentucky is referenced.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 3, Don Yoder, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Paul R. Wieand, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Herbert H. Beck, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Frances Lichten
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 3, Don Yoder, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Paul R. Wieand, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Herbert H. Beck, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Frances Lichten
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Two Worlds in the Dutch Country
• Belsnickel Lore
• Carpet-Rag Parties
• Quilting Traditions in the Dutch Country
• Lititz
• Lititz Specialties
• Amish Funerals
• Pennsylvania Redware
• Scratch-Carved Easter Eggs
• Fractur From the Hostetter Collection
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 1, Joan Saverino, Joseph Bentivegna, Nicholas V. De Leo, Catherine Cerrone, Janet Theophano
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 1, Joan Saverino, Joseph Bentivegna, Nicholas V. De Leo, Catherine Cerrone, Janet Theophano
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• "Domani Ci Zappa": Italian Immigration and Ethnicity in Pennsylvania
• A Study of the San Cataldesi Who Emigrated to Dunmore, Pennsylvania
• A Look at the Early Years of Philadelphia's "Little Italy"
• "An Aura of Toughness, Too": Italian Immigration to Pittsburgh and Vicinity
• Expressions of Love, Acts of Labor: Women's Work in an Italian American Community
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 2, Susan Kalcik, June Granatir Alexander, M. Mark Stolarik, Corinne Earnest, Klaus Stopp, Jobie E. Riley
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 2, Susan Kalcik, June Granatir Alexander, M. Mark Stolarik, Corinne Earnest, Klaus Stopp, Jobie E. Riley
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Fortune's Stepchildren: Slovaks in Pennsylvania
• Slovak Churches: Religious Diversity and Ethnic Communities
• Slovak Fraternal-Benefit Societies in Pennsylvania
• Early Fraktur Referring to Birth and Baptism in Pennsylvania: A Taufpatenbrief from Berks County for a Child Born in 1751
• The Solitary Sisters of Saron
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 42, No. 1, Marion Lois Huffines, Amos Long Jr., Robert P. Stevenson, Robert L. Leight
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)
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 40, No. 3, Steve Friesen, Monica Mutzbauer, Christopher S. Witmer, Mary Lamey Hoffer, Harry W. Barner, Robert L. Leight, Catherine L. Emerson
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 40, No. 3, Steve Friesen, Monica Mutzbauer, Christopher S. Witmer, Mary Lamey Hoffer, Harry W. Barner, Robert L. Leight, Catherine L. Emerson
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Home is Where the Hearth is
• The Hearth is Where the Cook is
• "Philipps gehn in Amerka": The Palatinate Emigration in German Schoolbooks
• The Barner Farm: A Connection to Clinton County's Pennsylvania-German Heritage
• A Teacher With a Heart: Carrie Frankenfield Horne
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 4, Theresa G. Saul, John L. Dochter, Henry Berkowitz, Linda Berkowitz, John Marshall, Shirley Marshall, Joseph L. Tognoli, Michael W. Rhode, Constantine Kermes, Judy Sweetland, Robert Legge, Kenelm Winslow Iii, Barry Mcfarland, Matthew Vardjan, Elaine Vardjan, John E. Stinsmen, Mark R. Eaby Jr.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 4, Theresa G. Saul, John L. Dochter, Henry Berkowitz, Linda Berkowitz, John Marshall, Shirley Marshall, Joseph L. Tognoli, Michael W. Rhode, Constantine Kermes, Judy Sweetland, Robert Legge, Kenelm Winslow Iii, Barry Mcfarland, Matthew Vardjan, Elaine Vardjan, John E. Stinsmen, Mark R. Eaby Jr.
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Our Church
• Pig Roast
• Wooden Jointed Dolls
• Coal Jewelry
• The Pennsylvania Long Rifle
• The Mennonites
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• Blockprinting
• Dried Flowers, Wreaths and Baskets
• Broom Making
• Wood-Turning
• Moravian and German Stars
• A Plain Costume Primer
• Farewell to the Folk Festival Magazine
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 3, Amos Long Jr., Marion Lois Huffines, Robert L. Leight, Charles R. Steitz Jr., Alvenia Schultz Graber
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 3, Amos Long Jr., Marion Lois Huffines, Robert L. Leight, Charles R. Steitz Jr., Alvenia Schultz Graber
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• The General Store
• Pennsylvania German in Public Life
• Building a One-Room School: The Dynamics of School Board Decision-Making at the Turn of the 20th Century
• Washington Hood: 500th Graduate of the United States Military Academy
• Grandmother Schultz
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 2, Wendy Everham, Lee C. Hopple, Ervin Beck, Juliana Bova, Grover M. Detwiler, Robert P. Stevenson
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 39, No. 2, Wendy Everham, Lee C. Hopple, Ervin Beck, Juliana Bova, Grover M. Detwiler, Robert P. Stevenson
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• The Recovery of the Feminine in an Early American Pietist Community: The Interpretive Challenge of the Theology of Conrad Beissel
• A Religious and Geographical History of the Shakers, 1747-1988
• Indiana Amish Family Records
• Eel for Christmas: An Italian Tradition
• Recollections of Ninety-Two Years
• Those Old-Time Children's Days
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)
Interview With Martha Cleo Abernathy Tormey (Fa 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Martha Cleo Abernathy Tormey (Fa 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Martha Cleo Abernathy Tormey conducted by Amanda Lee Davis on 8 October 1989. From folk studies student project titled “Christmas Traditions,” concerning Christmas folklore and traditions in Alabama and Tennessee.