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Oystering In Kent Narrows, Maryland, A. Clayton Schofield

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Kent Narrows is one of the many small fishing areas located along the banks of the Chesapeake Bay. The fishing industry located there concentrates on the harvesting and canning of Chesapeake Bay shellfish, specifically oysters, crabs, and clams. This study is concerned with the collection of the traditional elements of the three occupations comprising the oyster harvest at Kent Narrows: (a) handtonging, (b) oyster shucking, and (c) blacksmithing of the oystermen's tools. Although the Kent Narrows oyster industry has developed since the 1930s, many of the traditional tools and work situations were borrowed from other fishing areas of the Bay. …

Ua12/2/36 Scrapbook, Gamma Sigma Sigma

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Scrapbook chronicling Gamma Sigma Sigma activities and events of Fall 1977.

• Alpha Phi Omega
• Appling, Tom
• Ashby, Cathy
• Becker, Patricia
• Becker, Robert
• Bessinger, Roger
• Brown, Gerald
• Cottrell, Phylis
• Davis, Rose
• Delafield Girls Club
• Dubrin, Estill
• Dukes, Vickie
• Durbin, Carolyn
• Fuller, Cathy
• Grish, Linda
• Hancock, Debbie
• King, Pat
• Kingrey, Marla
• Leach, Cella
• Littlejohn, Renee
• Lovell, Cheri
• Lovell, Julianna
• Lovell, William
• Manning, Barbie
• Martin, Cynthia
• Mayes, Debbie
• McChesney, Butch
• Moody, Raymond
• Morgan, Lynn
• Murray, Sue
• Owen, Karen
• Owens, Cheryl
• Poitinger, Wendy
• Rogers, JoAnn
• Sanders, Nancy
• Sarles, Robbie
• Shoemaker, Debbie
• Simon, Donald
• Simon, Philip
• Stokes, Karen
• Strain, Cyndia
• Vick, Annette
• Vincent, Robin
• White, …

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

“They Made Us Dance In The Pig Trough!” Mrs. Blanche Story’S Oral Accounts Of Dating, Courtship, Marriage And Sexual Attitudes In Northcentral Nebraska, 1885-1910, Gayle Waggoner

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Oral recollections concerning dating, courtship, marriage and related attitudes were collected from a single informant, Mrs. Blanche Story of Butte, Nebraska. Through in-depth questioning during twelve tape-recorded interview sessions, value- and attitude-oriented accounts were secured for the years 1885 to 1910, the late frontier period in northcentral Nebraska. These detailed reminiscences focus on common life experiences related to interpersonal relationships and the institutions related to them, resulting in a personal or folk history. The single greatest problem in research was the lack of documentation for the attitudinal content of the texts. Corroboration of both specific information and broad patterns of …

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 4, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

The Price Of Folk: The Progression Of Two Decoy Makers’ Work From Folk To Non-Folk, Benjamin Vincent

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Applying the standards for delineating folkcraft developed by Japanese scholar Soetsu Yanagi to the work of two Maryland decoy makers, Lem and Steve Ward, revealed that the Wards’ work followed a progression from folk to non-folk. A Hearst newspaper chain article on the two carvers plus winning first place at the New York Decoy Show brought publicity far beyond that usually encountered by the average folk craftsman. These events also exposed the two brothers to a range of wealthy collectors. When the Wards began to experiment with ornately carved birds, they had a waiting, and financially capable market. The extremely …

Fandom Is A Way Of Life: A Folkloristic Ethnography Of Science Fiction Fandom, David Axler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A science fiction (“sf”) fan is an individual whose interest in this literary genre has extended past reading into involvement in such things as local science fiction clubs, fan magazines (“fanzines”), and sf conventions (“cons”). Science fiction fandom is the loosely-structured, geographically-dispersed organization of these fans. Drawing on both written sources and field interviews with eight informants, the history, composition and structure of sf fandom is examined from a folkloristic viewpoint. The forms of folklore which serve to bind the individual fan to the larger social entity of fandom are detailed.

Despite its literary orientation, fandom is primarily a social …

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 3, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua62 Grapevine, Vol. I, No. 1, Wku Gordon Ford College Of Business

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about the Bowling Green College of Business & Public Affairs.

• Jenkins, William. The Dean's Soapbox
• The Word on the Paper Itself
• This is US - The Dean's Doings
• Business Administration
• Business Education & Office Administration
• Economics
• Government
• Mid-Management & Distributive Education
• Public Service Institute
• Sociology & Anthropology
• The Editor's Ramblings

Ua62/2 Grapevine, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Gordon Ford College Of Business

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green College of Business & Public Affairs which is now the Gordon Ford College of Business.

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 4, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua1d Kenneth Clarke, Wku Human Resources

WKU Administration Documents

Personnel file of professor Kenneth Clarke, includes correspondence and newspaper clippings.

Tobacco Farming: The Persistence Of Tradition, Eugene Umberger Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The culture of tobacco has been associated with the history of Kentucky almost from the beginning and remains to this day a vital force in the state’s economy. In this age of scientific and technological advances – of increasing automation – we find that in tobacco farming, hand labor still figures prominently in the production of a major staple crop. This has resulted in the retention of traditional method, technology and terminology, long since lost in the culture of other crops which lent themselves more easily to mechanization.

The study is divided into three parts. Chapter I deals briefly with …

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua68/1 Forum, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters faculty newsletter regarding faculty research and publications. This issue includes:

• Clarke, Kenneth. Snake Handling & Plato: Identifying Academic Folklore
• Mayhew, Larry. John T. Stahl, obituary

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

The Cedar Grove Community In Oral Folk History, Ada Parker

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis was originally done for the Center for Intercultural & Folk Studies which no longer exists.

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 5, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 44, No. 4, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Administration Documents

WKU alumni magazine. Features the following articles:

• Dilmarter, Ronald. What Is a Cave, Anyway?
• Gray, David. Water Quality Studied
• Snodgrass, Jim. Spelunking in Big Cave Country
• Morse, Mike. The People of Cave Country
• Wilson, Gordon. Remember When . . . Folklore of the Cave Region
• The Seventh Wonder 'Makes It' to Celluloid - 'First' Cave Film - Mammoth Cave
• 1+2+4=1 Great Season - Track & Field
• Given, Ed. The Little Man Who Stood Tall, Al Almond
• Sutherland, David. Teacher Corps: Western Interns Learn/Teach on the Job
• Thompson, Kelly. An Appreciation - Gordon Wilson
• Cassidy, Frederic. Importance of Depth Collecting - …

Procedures For The Processing, Cataloging, And Classification Of A Non-Circulating Historical Art Print Collection, Linda Ray

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In order to establish specific procedures for processing, cataloging and classifying the art print collection at the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, data were gathered from three sources. These were: (1) information on current procedures used in the Kentucky Library, obtained through an interview with Riley Handy, the Kentucky Librarian (2) a search of related literature and (3) a questionnaire survey of other institution having art print collections.

It was found that historically valuable art prints, which are used primarily as documentary resources, need to be carefully processed and stored so as to preserve and protect them from damaging effects …

Ua68/13/5 The Fourth Estate, Vol. 2, No. 4, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua12/2/78 Newsletter, Kappa Sigma

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Newsletter created by and about Kappa Sigma fraternity in 1975.

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 3, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua12/2/78 Newsletter, Kappa Sigma

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Newsletter created by and about Kappa Sigma fraternity in 1974.

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2, Wku Folk Studies Society

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Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua68/14/3 Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1, Wku Folk Studies Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by the WKU Folk Studies Society regarding upcoming events and student activities.

Ua12/2/78 Periodic Poop Sheet, Kappa Sigma

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Newsletter created by and about Kappa Sigma fraternity in 1974.