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Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1150. Student folk studies project titled “From Slavery to Freedom for the Negro Race in Logan County [Kentucky]” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of African American life in Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets may include interviews, written records, photographs, informant’s name, age, and address.
Kentucky Folklife Program - Subject Research Files (Fa 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Program - Subject Research Files (Fa 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection FA 747. This collection contains materials relating to a wide array of folklife subjects collected by folklorist Bob Gates for the Kentucky Folklife Program. The majority of the subjects include ethnic or cultural groups, but there is also various information relating to specific arts or traditions. The materials within the folders are mostly articles or copies of articles. Most folders contain information that relates directly to Kentucky, but some are about the topic more in general terms. Files are arranged by subject.
Anthony, Christian Renee (Fa 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Anthony, Christian Renee (Fa 87), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid, full-text scan of paper, and interview (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 87. [Sexton House] Collection contains typescripts, photographs and an interview concerning the folklore surrounding the Sexton House in Russellville Kentucky. Collection was created for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Albrecht, Dana Lynn (Fa 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Albrecht, Dana Lynn (Fa 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 86. [Ghosts: Fact or Fiction?] Typescripts and cassette tapes that document ghost stories with a specific focus on ghost stories of Western Kentucky University. Collection contains four cassettes of interviews, tape indexes, informant/fieldworker data forms and news clippings. Collection was created for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Rich, Cordell (Fa 47), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rich, Cordell (Fa 47), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives 47. Interview with Cordell Rich at his home near Jamestown, Tennessee. Topics include gospel hymns, death omens and ghost stories.
Carden, Vickie Wright (Fa 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carden, Vickie Wright (Fa 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 318. Paper titled “The Jelly Snatcher” in which folk studies student Vickie Wright Carden details the paranormal activity surrounding Nancy Frew, a 23 year-old Bowling Green native, and her roommate, Vicki Taylor. Both women reported sensing malevolent spirits in their apartment, witnessed a comb fly off a dresser, and “lost” a jar of grape jelly—which they believe to have been “snatched” by the ghost. Carden offers possible theories relating to the poltergeist encounters, and even posits that Frew, along with her couch, attract the …
Christensen, Barbara Ellen (Fa 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Christensen, Barbara Ellen (Fa 315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of collection (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 315. Paper: "[Folktales]" written by Barbara Ellen Christensen for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Maltry, Janet A. (Fa 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Maltry, Janet A. (Fa 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 250. Paper: "Reminiscence" written by Janet A. Maltry for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Hall, Candy (Fa 245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hall, Candy (Fa 245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 245. Paper: "[Supernatural Experiences in the Life of a Green County, Kentucky Woman]" written by Candy Hall for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Peyton, Sunny E. (Fa 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peyton, Sunny E. (Fa 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 219. Paper: "Stirring Our Brew: A Halloween Fairytale" written by Sunny E. Peyton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Cederquist, Nancy (Fa 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cederquist, Nancy (Fa 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 206. Paper: "Local Ghost Legends of the Bowling Green-Warren County Area" written by Nancy Cederquist for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 1, Edward W. Chester, Nancy K. Gaugler, Ralph Connor, William T. Parsons, Roger W. Fromm, Hans F. Sennholz, Guy Graybill
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 1, Edward W. Chester, Nancy K. Gaugler, Ralph Connor, William T. Parsons, Roger W. Fromm, Hans F. Sennholz, Guy Graybill
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Franklin in Fact and Fiction: The Double Perspective of Leland Baldwin
• Jost Hite: From the Neckar to the Shenandoah
• The Migration and Settlement of Pennsylvania Germans in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina and Their Effects on the Landscape
• Bethesda Evangelical Church in Farmers Mills: Fact and Folklore
• The Tourist Bureau Shuns Me!
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 4, Scott Hambly, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Angela Varesano, Elizabeth Mathias, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Berton E. Beck, Claude K. Deischer
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 4, Scott Hambly, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Angela Varesano, Elizabeth Mathias, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Berton E. Beck, Claude K. Deischer
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Cultural Learning Through Game Structure: A Study of Pennsylvania German Children's Games
• "Nipsy": The Ethnography of a Traditional Game of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region
• The Game as Creator of the Group in an Italian-American Community
• Pennsylvania Town Views of a Century Ago
• "The Barber's Ghost": A Legend Becomes a Folktale
• Grain Harvesting in the Nineteenth Century
• My Experience With the Dialect
• Harvest on the Pennsylvania Farm: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 34
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Louis Winkler, Susan Stewart, Eleanor Yoder, W. Ray Sauers, Mac E. Barrick
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Louis Winkler, Susan Stewart, Eleanor Yoder, W. Ray Sauers, Mac E. Barrick
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Victorian Wall Mottoes
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology VIII: David Rittenhouse
• Sociological Aspects of Quilting in Three Brethren Churches of Southeastern Pennsylvania
• Nicknaming in an Amish-Mennonite Community
• Fruit Harvesting and Preservation in Early Pennsylvania
• Folklore in the Library: Old Schuylkill Tales
• Mills and Milling in Pennsylvania: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 33
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Sioux Baldwin, Edna Eby Heller, Martha S. Best, Dodds Meddock, Mac E. Barrick, Henry Snyder Gehman, Hilda Adam Kring
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Sioux Baldwin, Edna Eby Heller, Martha S. Best, Dodds Meddock, Mac E. Barrick, Henry Snyder Gehman, Hilda Adam Kring
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Whittling: Dumb Dutch Pastime
• Amish Plain Costume: A Matter of Choice
• It's Sticky - But We Love It
• The Folk Festival Seminars: Folk Art and Antique Collecting
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• 19th-Century Ballooning Tradition Continues at Kutztown Festival
• Jump-Rope Rhymes
• Ghost Stories and Old Superstitions of Lancaster County
• Mary Goes Over the Mountain
• Children's Games: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 16
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Henry Glassie, Berton E. Beck, Don Yoder
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Henry Glassie, Berton E. Beck, Don Yoder
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Dutch Country Burls and Bowls
• The Pennsylvania Barn in the South
• Tales of the Block House
• Official Religion Versus Folk Religion