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White County Heritage 1970 No. 4, White County Historical Society Oct 1970

White County Heritage 1970 No. 4, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Rose Bud Map (Cover)
/="/">President's Message by Claud Johnson
/="/">Wild Sports and Adventures in the Far West by Frederick Gerstaecker
/="/">Christmas at Uncle Jimmie's by Howard H. Snowden
/="/">Rose Bud Cemetery
/="/">The Rose Bud Fire of 1925 by Nancy May Fomby
/="/">From the Museum Shelf by Ellen Key
/="/">Tax Receipts provided by W. C. Welch
/="/">The Plant Genealogy by Ellen Key


The History Of The Japanese In Seattle And Its Environs: First Arrival To 1940, Peter Armstrong Vall-Spinosa Aug 1970

The History Of The Japanese In Seattle And Its Environs: First Arrival To 1940, Peter Armstrong Vall-Spinosa

All Master's Theses

This study is an effort to give an historical perspective on the Japanese living in the Puget Sound region up to 1940.


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 Jul 1970

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


White County Heritage 1970 No. 3, White County Historical Society Jul 1970

White County Heritage 1970 No. 3, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by Claud Johnson
/="/">Wild Sports and Adventures in the Far West by Frederick Gerstaecker
/="/">Some Arkansas Baptist History by J. L. Brown (Reprint)
/="/">History of the Searcy Baptist Church by Ben. M. Bogard, D.D. (Reprint)
/="/">Center Hill Presbyterian Cemetery
/="/">From the Museum Shelf by Ellen Key


Gorham State College Of The University Of Maine Commencement Program 1970, Gorham State College Of The University Of Maine Jun 1970

Gorham State College Of The University Of Maine Commencement Program 1970, Gorham State College Of The University Of Maine

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College of the University of Maine programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Ninetieth-first Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 7, 1970. Address given by Dr. Herman R. Branson.


University Of Maine In Portland And University Of Maine School Of Law Commencement Program 1970, University Of Maine In Portland Jun 1970

University Of Maine In Portland And University Of Maine School Of Law Commencement Program 1970, University Of Maine In Portland

Commencement Programs

The University of Maine in Portland and University of Maine School of Law Commencement Program program for the Ninth Commencement. Held in Portland, Maine June 6, 1970. Address given by The Honorable Kenneth C. Curtis, Governor of Maine.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 3, Toni F. Fratto, David C. Winslow, Leslie P. Greenhill, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Don Yoder, Guy Tilghman Hollyday Apr 1970

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 3, Toni F. Fratto, David C. Winslow, Leslie P. Greenhill, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Don Yoder, Guy Tilghman Hollyday

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Cooking in Red and White
• Trade Cards, Catalogs, and Invoice Heads
• The Encyclopaedia Cinematographica and Folklife Studies
• The Cheese was Good
• Notes and Documents: Eighteenth-Century Letters from Germany
• The Ephrata Wall-Charts and Their Inscriptions
• Itinerants - Peddlers, Drovers, Wagoners, Gypsies, Tramps: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 15
• Engravings of Pennsylvania Mills


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 2, Marcia Westkott, Fay Mcafee Winey, Joseph M. Gray, Amos Long Jr., Angus K. Gillespie, Friedrich Krebs, Otto Baeumer Jan 1970

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 2, Marcia Westkott, Fay Mcafee Winey, Joseph M. Gray, Amos Long Jr., Angus K. Gillespie, Friedrich Krebs, Otto Baeumer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Powwowing in Berks County
• Belsnickling in Paxtonville
• The Folk Tradition of the Sweetheart Tree
• Pigpens and Piglore in Rural Pennsylvania
• Gravestones and Ostentation: A Study of Five Delaware County Cemeteries
• Notes on Eighteenth-Century Emigration to the British Colonies
• A Siegerland Emigrant List of 1738
• Local Place Names: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 14


Motus 1970, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1970

Motus 1970, St. Francis College History Collection

St. Francis College History Collection Yearbooks

1970 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Betty Wiseman's Scrapbook, 3, 1970-1971, Betty Wiseman Jan 1970

Betty Wiseman's Scrapbook, 3, 1970-1971, Betty Wiseman

Scrapbooks

Betty Wiseman graduated from Belmont College and began teaching health and physical education in 1966. She was the founder and coach of the Belmont women’s basketball team, the Rebelettes (now Bruins), in 1968. At the time, it was one of the first women’s collegiate teams in the southeast. She was inducted into the Belmont Athletics Hall of Fame in 1981. She was also inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. Wiseman coached the women’s team for 16 years (1968-1984) before moving into athletic administration at Belmont. She served as Assistant Athletics Director until her retirement in 2013. …


Essays On Western History In Honor Of Elwyn B. Robinson, Edward C. Blackorby, William M. Philliips, Wesley A. Waage, Ralph J. Kane, Jackson K. Punam, D. Jerome Tweton, Sinclair Snow Jan 1970

Essays On Western History In Honor Of Elwyn B. Robinson, Edward C. Blackorby, William M. Philliips, Wesley A. Waage, Ralph J. Kane, Jackson K. Punam, D. Jerome Tweton, Sinclair Snow

UND Publications

This book was published on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. Elwyn B. Robinson from the Department of History at the University of North Dakota. It features articles by several different historians regarding various subjects in the history of the American West.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 1, Vernon H. Nelson, Lothar Madeheim, Mildred Urick, John A. Hostetler, Beulah S. Hostetler, Mac E. Barrick, Arthur J. Lawton, Don Yoder Oct 1969

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 1, Vernon H. Nelson, Lothar Madeheim, Mildred Urick, John A. Hostetler, Beulah S. Hostetler, Mac E. Barrick, Arthur J. Lawton, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Moravian Settlements of Pennsylvania in 1757: The Nicholas Garrison Views
• The San Rocco Festival at Aliquippa, Pennsylvania: A Transplanted Tradition
• Amish Genealogy: A Progress Report
• Pulpit Humor in Central Pennsylvania
• The Pre-Metric Foot and its Use in Pennsylvania German Architecture
• Mennonite Contacts Across the Atlantic: The Van der Smissen Letter of 1838
• Bread, Baking, and the Bakeoven: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 13


The Diplomatic Mission Of Yancey, Rost And Mann: The Inadequacies Of Confederate Foreign Policy, 1861, Paul Zingg Aug 1969

The Diplomatic Mission Of Yancey, Rost And Mann: The Inadequacies Of Confederate Foreign Policy, 1861, Paul Zingg

Master's Theses

During the secession movement of January- February 1861, which culminated in the Montgomery Constitutional Convention, the young Confederate government established well-defined policy objectives for the purpose of securing European allies and material assistance. Basically these aims were three-fold: to secure recognition of the sovereign status of the Confederate states; to induce intervention by the European powers on the side of the Confederacy; and, after April, 1861, to gain a repudiation of the Union blockade from these same powers. Relying predominantly on the coercive power of cotton, the South began its quest for these objectives with diplomatic efforts directed at the …


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Martha S. Best, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Carter W. Craigie, Betty Snellenburg, William H. Egle, Robert C. Bucher Jul 1969

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Martha S. Best, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Carter W. Craigie, Betty Snellenburg, William H. Egle, Robert C. Bucher

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Discord in the Garden
• The Folk Festival Seminars: Crafts and Customs of the Year
• What to Read on the Amish
• "Soup's On!"
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Folk Festival Geisinger
• Four Interviews with Powwowers
• The First Historian of the Pennsylvania Germans
• The Public Sale Sixty Years Ago
• The Long Shingle
• Quilts and Quilting: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 12


University Of Maine In Portland And University Of Maine School Of Law Commencement Program 1969, University Of Maine In Portland Jun 1969

University Of Maine In Portland And University Of Maine School Of Law Commencement Program 1969, University Of Maine In Portland

Commencement Programs

The University of Maine in Portland and University of Maine School of Law Commencement Program program for the Eighth Commencement. Held in Portland, Maine June 7, 1969. Address given by The Honorable Leverett Saltonstall, Former United States Senator, Commonweath of Massachusetts. Honorary Doctorates Conferred upon: Edward York Blewett, Frederick Hazard Frost and Leverett Saltonstall. Award for Distiguished Serrvice to Rebecca Thurman Bernstein.


Gorham State College Commencement Program 1969, Gorham State College Jun 1969

Gorham State College Commencement Program 1969, Gorham State College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College programs for the Baccalaureate Services, and Ninetieth Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 1, 1969. Address given by Dr. Harold Taylor.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 3, Harry E. Smith, Donald R. Friary, L. Karen Baldwin, Amos Long Jr., Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder Apr 1969

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 3, Harry E. Smith, Donald R. Friary, L. Karen Baldwin, Amos Long Jr., Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The End of the Horse and Buggy Era
• Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: A Review
• Humor in a Friendly World
• Chickens and Chicken Houses in Rural Pennsylvania
• Eighteenth-Century Emigrants to America from the Duchy of Zweibrucken and the Germersheim District
• Horse-Drawn Transportation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 11


A Report To The Parents Of Detroit On Decentralization, William Bunge, Yvonne Colvard, Susan Cozzens, Beverly Edward, Dwight Ferguson, Jerol Jordan, Marilyn Middlebrooks, John Trafton, Robert Ward, Gwendolyn Warren Jan 1969

A Report To The Parents Of Detroit On Decentralization, William Bunge, Yvonne Colvard, Susan Cozzens, Beverly Edward, Dwight Ferguson, Jerol Jordan, Marilyn Middlebrooks, John Trafton, Robert Ward, Gwendolyn Warren

The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute

No abstract provided.


Discussion Paper No. 1: The Detroit Geographical Expedition, William Bunge Jan 1969

Discussion Paper No. 1: The Detroit Geographical Expedition, William Bunge

The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute

Illustrations, maps, 28 cm


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 2, Robert C. Bucher, Don Yoder, Harry H. Hiller, Henry Glassie, Donald F. Durnbaugh Jan 1969

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 2, Robert C. Bucher, Don Yoder, Harry H. Hiller, Henry Glassie, Donald F. Durnbaugh

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Swiss Bank House in Pennsylvania
• Trance-Preaching in the United States
• The Sleeping Preachers: An Historical Study of the Role of Charisma in Amish Society
• A Central Chimney Continental Log House
• The German Journalist and the Dunker Love-Feast
• Christmas Customs: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 10


Motus 1969, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1969

Motus 1969, St. Francis College History Collection

St. Francis College History Collection Yearbooks

1969 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Betty Wiseman's Scrapbook, 2, 1969-1970, Betty Wiseman Jan 1969

Betty Wiseman's Scrapbook, 2, 1969-1970, Betty Wiseman

Scrapbooks

Betty Wiseman graduated from Belmont College and began teaching health and physical education in 1966. She was the founder and coach of the Belmont women’s basketball team, the Rebelettes (now Bruins), in 1968. At the time, it was one of the first women’s collegiate teams in the southeast. She was inducted into the Belmont Athletics Hall of Fame in 1981. She was also inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. Wiseman coached the women’s team for 16 years (1968-1984) before moving into athletic administration at Belmont. She served as Assistant Athletics Director until her retirement in 2013. …


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 1, Carter W. Craigie, Robert D. Bethke, Mary Ellen Brown Lewis, Clarissa Smith, John D. Milner, George Valentine Massey Ii, A. P. Body, Don Yoder, Millard E. Gladfelter, Homer L. Kreider, Charles D. Spotts Oct 1968

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 1, Carter W. Craigie, Robert D. Bethke, Mary Ellen Brown Lewis, Clarissa Smith, John D. Milner, George Valentine Massey Ii, A. P. Body, Don Yoder, Millard E. Gladfelter, Homer L. Kreider, Charles D. Spotts

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Tanning in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1711-1850
• Chester County Widow Wills (1714-1800), A Folklife Source
• Folk Elements in Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Communities
• The Thomas Massey House
• Passengers on the Ketch "Endeavour"
• The Medical Plants of Berks County, Pennsylvania
• Notes and Documents: A Dunkard Love Feast ; Jacob Graeff's Reminiscences of Reading
• Symposium on the Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect
• Farm Dress: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 9


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Henry Snyder Gehman, Mabel Snyder, Phares H. Hertzog, Maurice A. Mook, Lester O. Troyer, Edna Eby Heller, William Jay Bryan, Mac E. Barrick, Fay Mcafee Winey Jul 1968

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Henry Snyder Gehman, Mabel Snyder, Phares H. Hertzog, Maurice A. Mook, Lester O. Troyer, Edna Eby Heller, William Jay Bryan, Mac E. Barrick, Fay Mcafee Winey

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Floral Motifs in Dutchland's Art
• What the Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect Has Meant in My Life
• How I Make Soap
• Pennsylvania German Snakelore
• Amish Nicknames
• Amish Nicknames from Holmes County, Ohio
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Highlights
• Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Today and Yesterday
• Folk Medicine in Butler County, Pennsylvania
• Finger Games and Rhymes
• Huckleberry Picking on Shade Mountain
• Mealtimes and Table Settings: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #8


Cummings Guest House Register Pages 077 And 078, Usm African American Collection Jul 1968

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 077 And 078, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.


University Of Maine In Portland And University Of Maine School Of Law Commencement Program 1968, University Of Maine In Portland Jun 1968

University Of Maine In Portland And University Of Maine School Of Law Commencement Program 1968, University Of Maine In Portland

Commencement Programs

The University of Maine in Portland and University of Maine School of Law Commencement Program program for the Seventh Commencement. Held in Portland, Maine June 8, 1968. Address given by Colin B. MacKay, President, The University of New Brunswick. Honorary Doctor of Laws' Conferred upon: Colin Bridges MacKay and Margaret Payson. Award for Distiguished Serrvice in Education to Gertrude M. Prinn.


Gorham State College Commencement Program 1968, Gorham State College Jun 1968

Gorham State College Commencement Program 1968, Gorham State College

Commencement Programs

The Gorham State College program for the Eighty-ninth Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 2, 1968. Address given by Mr. Saville Davis.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 3, Martha S. Best, Don Yoder, Clarissa Smith, Donald R. Friary, Amos Long Jr., Phil R. Jack Apr 1968

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 3, Martha S. Best, Don Yoder, Clarissa Smith, Donald R. Friary, Amos Long Jr., Phil R. Jack

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Easter Customs in the Lehigh Valley
• From Paoli to Frederick in 1854: An Anonymous Travel Account
• Jumping Into Spring
• A Welsh Antecedent for St. David's Church, Radnor: Gwydir Uchaf Chapel, Caernarvonshire, Wales
• Pumps, Rams, Windmills and Waterwheels in Rural Pennsylvania
• A Western Pennsylvania Graveyard, 1787-1967
• Baptism and Confirmation: Folk-Culture Questionnaire No. 7


The Influence Of The Bible In The Building Of America, James Burton Coffman Jan 1968

The Influence Of The Bible In The Building Of America, James Burton Coffman

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Don Yoder, Monroe H. Fabian, Phares H. Hertzog, William A. Reagan, Claude Unger, Lester O. Troyer, John Eby Pfautz Jan 1968

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Don Yoder, Monroe H. Fabian, Phares H. Hertzog, William A. Reagan, Claude Unger, Lester O. Troyer, John Eby Pfautz

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Far-From-Lonely Heart
• Almanac Album
• Some Moravian Paintings in London
• Snakelore in Pennsylvania German Folk Medicine
• The Blacksmith and his Tools
• "Shouting, Jumping Evangelicals"
• The Old Goschenhoppen Lutheran Burial Register, 1752-1772
• Personalia from the "Amerikanischer Correspondent"
• Regionalism Among the Holmes County Amish
• The Pennsylvania German Churches and Sects (1878)
• Notes and Documents: A Curious People (1877) ; Pokes and Tuts (1964)
• Feather Beds and Chaff Bags: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 6