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Dainty Festival - Louisville, Kentucky (Fa 616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dainty Festival - Louisville, Kentucky (Fa 616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 616. This collection includes information about the annual Dainty Festival of Louisville, Kentucky hosted by the Schnitzelburg German-American community.
Growing Cricket In Tasmania: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, Elizabeth Ann Stanford
Growing Cricket In Tasmania: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, Elizabeth Ann Stanford
Honors Theses
Sports are an integral part of life in societies throughout the world. Cricket is one of Australia’s two major sports and is a significant aspect of its culture, in a fashion similar to baseball being America’s “national pastime.” Despite its isolation, Tasmania, the small island state of Australia, shares the same mania for cricket as mainland Australia. While in Tasmania for ten weeks interning with the Tasmanian Cricket Association (TCA), I studied the role of cricket in the day-to-day lives of Tasmanians, from the pervasive television, newspaper, and the radio coverage, to pick-up cricket games as a popular leisure time …