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Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.07 (July 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson, John Frank, Tim Bouffard Jul 1977

Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.07 (July 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson, John Frank, Tim Bouffard

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 5, Leo Schelbert, Sandra Luebking, Richard H. Hulan, Edith Von Zemenszky, David A. Rausch Jul 1977

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 5, Leo Schelbert, Sandra Luebking, Richard H. Hulan, Edith Von Zemenszky, David A. Rausch

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An Annotated Checklist
• The Dogtrot House and its Pennsylvania Associations
• A Letter from Pastor Johann Friedrich Ernst
• Civil War Medicine: A Patient's Account
• Soups, Stews, Broths, and Porridges: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 48


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, Folk Festival Supplement, Nancy A. Delong, Marie E. Deverter, John F. Dreibelbis, Robert F. Ulle, Laverne H. Stevens, Carl Ned Foltz, Robert R. Hoppes, Martha S. Best, Theodore W. Jentsch, Rita Grim, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker Jul 1977

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, Folk Festival Supplement, Nancy A. Delong, Marie E. Deverter, John F. Dreibelbis, Robert F. Ulle, Laverne H. Stevens, Carl Ned Foltz, Robert R. Hoppes, Martha S. Best, Theodore W. Jentsch, Rita Grim, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Bonnets, Bonnets, Bonnets
• Theorem Painting on Velvet
• Spinning, Weaving and Lace Making
• Mennonites: A Peaceful People
• Special Police Force Directs Traffic
• Candle Dipping and Molding
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Old One-Room School
• The Art of Making Brooms
• Koom Rei, Huck Dich un Essa (Come In, Sit Down and Eat)
• Old Fashioned Apple Butter Making
• Fraktur: An Enduring Art Form
• Covered Bridges: Folk Festival Questionnaire


Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.06 (June 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson, John Frank Jun 1977

Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.06 (June 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson, John Frank

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of The Position Of Women In The Society On The Development Of Nursing As A Profession In America, Marion Rachael Dickens May 1977

The Influence Of The Position Of Women In The Society On The Development Of Nursing As A Profession In America, Marion Rachael Dickens

American Studies ETDs

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the cultural context in which nursing developed in America. It is the thesis of the dissertation that while there have been many influences on the development of nursing, nursing education, and nursing practice, the predominant influence on all facets of nursing has been that it has been a feminine occupation, and women have had a subordinate status in a society led and controlled by men. The first chapter examines the origins of nursing in America, stressing how, when more men were occupied away from the everyday activities of the society, women became …


Climbing The Racial Mountain: The Folk Element In The Works Of Three Black Writers, Gordon Query Freeman May 1977

Climbing The Racial Mountain: The Folk Element In The Works Of Three Black Writers, Gordon Query Freeman

American Studies ETDs

Folklore is an integral part of Black literature, and writers Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison have used the Negro folk tradition in particularly significant ways. All three have written about the importance of the folk tradition in literature, and they share many views. This study examines their individual works within the context of an accepted definition of "folk" and "folklore" and compares their various approaches to the folk tradition. The definition of "folk" and "folklore" and the methodology for tracing the folk element have been revised in the past decade. As a result, there now exists a more …


Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.05 (May 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson May 1977

Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.05 (May 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.


Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.04 (April 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson Apr 1977

Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.04 (April 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.


White County Heritage 1977 No. 2, White County Historical Society Apr 1977

White County Heritage 1977 No. 2, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

My White County Ancestors and Some Associated Family Lines by Louis M. Crook, Jr.
White County's Cemetery of Tradegy by Claude Johnson
The Post Office in Early Arkansas by Nathan B. Williams (reprint)
Searcy's Early Wagon Yards by Claude Johnson


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 4, E. Reginald Good, Gerald L. Pocius, Robert A. Barakat, Louis Winkler, Don Yoder Apr 1977

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 4, E. Reginald Good, Gerald L. Pocius, Robert A. Barakat, Louis Winkler, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Isaac Ziegler Hunsicker: Ontario Schoolmaster and Fraktur Artist
• Walls and Fences in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
• Glossary of Pennsylvania German Terms Related to Construction and Tobacco Agriculture
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XV: Benjamin Franklin's Almanacs
• Wilhelm Nast and the German Universalists
• Vegetables in the Pennsylvania Cuisine: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 47


Wit And Humor In The Slave Narratives, Daryl Cumber Dance Apr 1977

Wit And Humor In The Slave Narratives, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

This passage suggests something of the nature of Black humor and the function it has served, not only in the slave narratives, but in the folk tales and throughout the history of recorded literature from William Wells Brown to Amiri Baraka. The life revealed in all of these sources is shown to often be alternately degrading and courageous, tragic and absurdly comic, hopeless and yet enduring; indeed that life could hardly ever be termed merely amusing. And the Black character, though he may be seen to laugh, can hardly be deemed carefree, unbothered, satisfied, even truly happy. Indeed the paradox …


Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.03 (March 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson Mar 1977

Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.03 (March 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.


Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.02 (February 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson Feb 1977

Mainely Gay, Vol.4, No.02 (February 1977), Peter Prizer, Susan Henderson

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.


Unlv "Rebels" Vs Pepperdine University "Waves", University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Jan 1977

Unlv "Rebels" Vs Pepperdine University "Waves", University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Basketball Programs

Team roster for both schools.

UNLV Schedule

List of UNLV Scholarship Donors

Meet the Rebels

Opponent's Scouting Report

Registration for the 1977 Jerry Tarkanian Basketball Camps

Jerry Tarkanian Story


The American Dream And The Unwanted Child, Wallace A. V. Hedges Jan 1977

The American Dream And The Unwanted Child, Wallace A. V. Hedges

American Studies ETDs

By the time a nation celebrates a 200th birthday it is expected that will have a long list of accomplishments. It can also be expected to have some deficits; it may not as yet have accomplished all of its goals. This study has viewed one facet of the American Dream – the myth of America as a welcoming place for the unwanted of the world. The myth is that here there will be no unwanted people. This study explores this part of the American Dream by examining the plight of unwanted children. This study has grown out of this …


1975 Archaeological Investigations At Old Ursuline Academy San Antonio, Texas, Paul R. Katz Jan 1977

1975 Archaeological Investigations At Old Ursuline Academy San Antonio, Texas, Paul R. Katz

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Archaeological investigations were conducted at Old Ursuline Academy (41 BX 235), presently the Southwest Craft Center, during the month of October, 1975. This work was necessitated by planned renovations to the dormitory building, one of the complex of nineteenth century buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Figs. 1, 2).

The nature of the renovation would consist of excavating below the present floor of the dormitory basement so that air conditioning ducts and blower units might be installed; transformation of this basement from a storage place into a series of functional rooms and galleries; construction of a new …


A Guide To The Identification Of Burins In Prehistoric Chipped Stone Assemblages, Jean M. Pitzer Jan 1977

A Guide To The Identification Of Burins In Prehistoric Chipped Stone Assemblages, Jean M. Pitzer

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

A guidebook published by the Center for Archaeological Research to assist with the identification of burins, especially in relation to the contexts in which they are found in the New World.


Franco-American Album, 1977 (Scrapbook #4), Franco-American Collection Jan 1977

Franco-American Album, 1977 (Scrapbook #4), Franco-American Collection

Scrapbooks

Newspaper clippings with photographs of politics, schools, church, wedding anniversaries, obituaries and social events etc., in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine and Canada from 1977.


Approaching American Culture Through Art And Poetry (An Exploration Of Ten Themes), Emily M. Bufferd Jan 1977

Approaching American Culture Through Art And Poetry (An Exploration Of Ten Themes), Emily M. Bufferd

MA TESOL Collection

My project consists of forty-five paintings, twenty-five postcard-size prints, twenty slides, three postcard-size photographs and thirty poems, each representing one or more of ten themes chosen as a basis for teaching about United States culture. These ten themes signify dominant concerns of Twentieth Century America and are arranged, in the following pages, with those works pertinent to the particular theme. This approach to culture is intended for use in an advanced ESL class, its purpose being to increase awareness of and promote discussions about our culture. Inscluded also are: a brief rationale for the project, a list of the criteria …


Lewiston, 1977 (Scrapbook #13), Franco-American Collection Jan 1977

Lewiston, 1977 (Scrapbook #13), Franco-American Collection

Scrapbooks

Newspaper clippings with photographs for arts and theater related events in Lewiston, Maine and Canada from 1977.


Josiah Gregg And Lewis H. Garrard, Edward Halsey Foster Jan 1977

Josiah Gregg And Lewis H. Garrard, Edward Halsey Foster

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

New Mexico and that vast region spanned by the Santa Fe trail—a region utterly unlike anything east of the Mississippi—must have seemed enormously exotic and exciting to Americans a hundred and fifty years ago. It was a segment of the continent which most Americans knew only through books, and there were many of them, highly colored and occasionally inaccurate, to satisfy, or increase, their curiosity. American interest in the region expanded as the decades passed and culminated, of course, in the Mexican War and American possession of the Southwest.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 2, J. Ritchie Garrison, Mac E. Barrick, Miriam Pitchon, Donald E. Taft, Maurice A. Mook, John A. Hostetler, Don Yoder, Stephanie Farrior Jan 1977

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 2, J. Ritchie Garrison, Mac E. Barrick, Miriam Pitchon, Donald E. Taft, Maurice A. Mook, John A. Hostetler, Don Yoder, Stephanie Farrior

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Battalion Day: Militia Exercise and Frolic in Pennsylvania Before the Civil War
• Folklore in the Library: Cherished Memories of Old Lancaster
• Widows' Wills for Philadelphia County, 1750-1784: A Study of Pennsylvania German Folklife
• Forest County Lore
• The "Big Valley" Amish of Central Pennsylvania: A Community of Cultural Contrasts
• Maurice A. Mook (1904-1973): An Appreciation
• Collectanea: Ore-Mining and Basket-Making in Maxatawny ; The Sharadin Tannery at Kutztown ; Occult Lore Recorded in Cumberland County
• German Immigrants in America as Presented in Travel Accounts
• The Pie and Related Forms in Pennsylvania Cuisine: Folk-Cultural …


Motus 1977, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1977

Motus 1977, St. Francis College History Collection

St. Francis College History Collection Yearbooks

1977 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


George Catlin, Joseph R. Millichap Jan 1977

George Catlin, Joseph R. Millichap

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

George Catlin, the first and best observer of the Plains Indians, died in 1872, impoverished and ignored. As America enters its third century as a nation, it seems that American history might have caught up with him. In the 1970’s Catlin at last is receiving the attention which is his due as an adventurer, as an anthropologist, and as an artist, both literary and graphic. His drawings, paintings, and lithographs are being shown in museums and libraries across the country; his most important book, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians (1841) has …


Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert L. Gale Jan 1977

Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert L. Gale

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) was a personable San Francisco bohemian with a flair for precious poetics and a gift for describing Western and foreign locales. He became the friend of distinguished writers both regionally and internationally known, but he also became a self-indulging old sybarite who neglected his great literary talent. He is best known for his brilliant South-Sea Idyls, Mashallah!, The Lepers of Molokai, A Troubled Heart, In the Footprints of the Padres, The Island of Tranquil Delights, and several shorter works, and also for his friendship with such diverse personalities as Ina Coolbrith, Prentice Mulford, Mark Twain, Father …


E.W. Howe, Martin Bucco Jan 1977

E.W. Howe, Martin Bucco

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Edgar Watson Howe’s quaint niche in American literary history rests squarely on his first and best novel, The Story of a Country Town (1882). In 1856 the infant Howe and his parents trekked West, "to grow up with the country.” But unlike the early work of Bret Harte, Edward Eggleston, and Mark Twain, Howe’s Country Town blasted the Jeffersonian garden with the raw winds of Darwinism and Necessity and stressed Western drabness and tragic failure. His early hardships on the land, in printshops, and at home informed both his grim fiction and his country-town journalism. Before he became celebrated in …


Edward Abbey, Garth Mccann Jan 1977

Edward Abbey, Garth Mccann

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

To an assembly of professional historians meeting in Colorado in August 1974, Vine Deloria, Jr., complained that the accumulated bulk of research and writing dealing with the cowboy, cavalry, and fndian era of the American West stands in stark contrast to the dearth of attention paid by historians to what has happened since Wounded Knee. Everyone, apparently, knows all the cliches about the old West, but few know anything at all about the new West—about its history, its meaning, its place within developing American culture.


The Role Of Betrayal In Selected Drama Of Tennessee Williams, Craig E. Sanderson Jan 1977

The Role Of Betrayal In Selected Drama Of Tennessee Williams, Craig E. Sanderson

Masters Theses

Much of the critical analysis of Tennessee Williams' drama concerns itself with the inherent conflict between ideals and reality in the universe as perceived by Williams. Such analysis, however, has not considered this conflict as a source of betrayal, or betrayal as a dominant theme in Williams' drama. In at least four of his plays it becomes evident how each of the individual characters in Williams' drama endures the conflict of reality and ideals, and the extent to which their respective approaches to the resolution of this struggle result in betrayal. Four plays--all regarded as among his most successful and …


From Rendezvous To Picket Fence: Tracing The Changing Frontier And Novelistic Development In A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'S Western Pentology, Raymond Charles Schmudde Jan 1977

From Rendezvous To Picket Fence: Tracing The Changing Frontier And Novelistic Development In A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'S Western Pentology, Raymond Charles Schmudde

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Unlv 1977-78 Rebel Basketball Guide, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Jan 1977

Unlv 1977-78 Rebel Basketball Guide, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Basketball Programs

A guide for Rebel Basketball from 1977-1978.