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Full-Text Articles in Folklore
Interview With Odis Blanton (Fa 369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Odis Blanton (Fa 369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Odis Blanton conducted by Dennis Paul Angle on 7 December 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Blanton’s life as a country music musician in Warren County, Kentucky.
The Loving Of The Game: A Study Of Basketry In The Mammoth Cave Area, Denis O. Kiely
The Loving Of The Game: A Study Of Basketry In The Mammoth Cave Area, Denis O. Kiely
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The production and marketing of baskets in the Mammoth Cave area of Kentucky from 1880 to the present is observed in light of the cultural, technical, aesthetic, ad traditional aspects involved. The process of making a white oak ribbed basket is documented, as well as the technical and aesthetic variables from which the basket maker renders his product. The changing role of social organization and communication in the production and marketing of a traditional craft objects is also considered.
Expressions Of Grief In South Central Kentucky, 1870-1910, Sue Lynn Arnold
Expressions Of Grief In South Central Kentucky, 1870-1910, Sue Lynn Arnold
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Through the ages, survivors have experienced loss due to the deaths of their contemporaries. Between 1870 and 1910, the people of south central Kentucky (Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Monroe, Simpson and Warren counties) used significant expressions of grief. Combining oral history with primary correspondence, journals, scrapbooks and mementos, this study determines the importance that area residents placed on deathbed accounts, the care given the deceased's body, the funeral service, obituaries, resolutions of respect, memorial poetry, condolence letters, photography, memorial cards and pictures, hair wreaths, mourning attire and jewelry, the gravesite, and the tombstone. In almost every instance, south central …
Arnold, Thomas Cleveland, Jr., B. 1957 (Fa 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Arnold, Thomas Cleveland, Jr., B. 1957 (Fa 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 102. Project and paper entitled "Miss Mattie Makes Music." Paper and interviews, November 8 & 22, 1983, with black guitarists Mattie (Thomas) Crumbold Baldry, b.1895, of Adairville, Kentucky in Logan County. Includes information on her band, employment and family life.
Interview With Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis conducted by J. Sharli Powell on 20 October 1983. From folk studies student project with second interview of Bonnie Willis about quilting.
Interview With George Morris Carter (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With George Morris Carter (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with George Morris Carter conducted by John Alan Dowell on October 13, 1983. From project titled “George Morris Carter,” which discusses his life and exhibits his storytelling ability. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Interview With Grace (Meador) Galloway (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Grace (Meador) Galloway (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Grace (Meador) Galloway conducted by Alison Anne Geiger on 3 October 1983. From project with interviews of Grace Galloway about her quilting. Includes step-by-step instructions demonstrating the construction of a cathedral window block quilt. Grace also discusses her life and raising her family on a farm in Warren County, Kentucky.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 1, Clement Valletta, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Allen G. Noble, Jean M. Danis
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 1, Clement Valletta, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Allen G. Noble, Jean M. Danis
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Ritual and Folklore in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Region: Old to New World Wonder
• Ordinary Architecture of the Pennsylvania Germans: The Turnpike Houses
• "Set thy House in Order": Inheritance Patterns of the Colonial Pennsylvania Germans
• The Literature on Fences, Walls and Hedges as Cultural Landscape Features
• Aldes un Neies
Interview With Esther Magers Isbell (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Esther Magers Isbell (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Esther (Magers) Isbell conducted by Teresa Dolores Klimowicz on 27 September 1983. From project focusing on Esther Isbell, a folk artist and native of Barren County, Kentucky, with special attention on her biblical themed quilts. Isbell also discusses her various occupations and participation in community affairs.
Interview With Zeleme (Brashear) Cottrell (Fa 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Zeleme (Brashear) Cottrell (Fa 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Estella Zeleme (Brashear) Cottrell conducted by Ann Celine Taft on 23 September 1983. From a project with Zeleme Cottrell discussing her weaving, the weaving process in depth, and how it has affected her life.
Interview With Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis conducted by J. Sharli Powell on 22 September 1983. From folk studies student project with interview of Bonnie Willis about quilting.
Interview With Larry Louis Bolton (Fa 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Larry Louis Bolton (Fa 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Larry Louis Bolton conducted by Gregory Alfred Hansen on 21 September 1983. From project with interview of Larry Bolton of Bowling Green, Kentucky, about his banjo playing techniques and style. As a banjo instructor, Bolton goes into detail explaining methods of banjo playing.
Interview With Jeff And Gwen Mckinney (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Jeff And Gwen Mckinney (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Jeff and Gwen McKinney conducted by Donald Andre Beisswenger on 20 September 1983. From project titled “White Gospel Music in Logan County, Kentucky” which discusses white gospel music and singing schools in Logan County, Kentucky. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Interview With Jeff And Gwen Mckinney (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Jeff And Gwen Mckinney (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Jeff and Gwen McKinney conducted by Donald Andre Beisswenger on 14 September 1983. From project titled “White Gospel Music in Logan County,” which details the discussion of white gospel music and singing schools in Logan County, Kentucky. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Vol. 7 No. 1 (1983): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies
Vol. 7 No. 1 (1983): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies
Pacific Studies
Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …
Vol. 7 No. 1 (1983): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies
Vol. 7 No. 1 (1983): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies
Pacific Studies
Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …
Phantom Night Marchers In The Hawaiian Islands, Katharine Luomala
Phantom Night Marchers In The Hawaiian Islands, Katharine Luomala
Pacific Studies
No abstract provided.
Richard M. Moyle's Review Of Steven Feld's Sound And Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, And Song In Kaluli Expression, Richard M. Moyle
Richard M. Moyle's Review Of Steven Feld's Sound And Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, And Song In Kaluli Expression, Richard M. Moyle
Pacific Studies
No abstract provided.
New Russian Books On The Pacific, 1980-1981, Patricia Polansky
New Russian Books On The Pacific, 1980-1981, Patricia Polansky
Pacific Studies
No abstract provided.
Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies
Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies
Pacific Studies
Book Listing for the Vol 6, No 1 Fall Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 4, John F. Harnish Jr., Gladys Sweigard, Richard Shaner, John L. Lakatosh, Karen Lemonnier, Herman A. Danenhower, Dave Ehrig, Thelia Jean Eaby, James Petrucelli, Larry L. Rahn, William Dean Wright, Ronald Kunkel, Cindy Kunkel, Robert Nettleton, Cheryl Nettleton, Jane Ann Stinsmen
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 4, John F. Harnish Jr., Gladys Sweigard, Richard Shaner, John L. Lakatosh, Karen Lemonnier, Herman A. Danenhower, Dave Ehrig, Thelia Jean Eaby, James Petrucelli, Larry L. Rahn, William Dean Wright, Ronald Kunkel, Cindy Kunkel, Robert Nettleton, Cheryl Nettleton, Jane Ann Stinsmen
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Frakturs
• Apple Head Dolls are Unique
• Tableware and Dutch Folklore
• The Pipemaker
• Wheat Weaving
• Beekeeping: Past and Present
• The Pennsylvania Longrifle
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• Quilts
• The Country Butcher
• Stained Glass
• Metal Casting in Sand
• Is This Pure Leather?
• The Horse and Carriage
• Marquetry, Parquetry and Intarsia
• Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking
Carroll, Ricky L. (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carroll, Ricky L. (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 197. Interviews and transcripts with ninety-three year old Acie Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs (Edmonson County), Kentucky, about his life experiences. Includes photographs. WKU student Ricky Carroll, did the project for a Folk Studies course.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 3, Robert F. Ensminger, William T. Parsons, John R. Costello, Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Karl J. R. Arndt, Jack Boyd
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 3, Robert F. Ensminger, William T. Parsons, John R. Costello, Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Karl J. R. Arndt, Jack Boyd
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• A Comparative Study of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Forebay Barns
• The South Moravian Choral Group's 1982 United States Tour
• Pennsylvania German Brauche "to Charm" and Hebrew Berakhah "Benediction": A New Etymology
• Jacob Schnee: Preacher, Publisher, Printer and Utopian Community Pioneer
• A Tour of America's Most Successful Utopia: Harmonie, Pennsylvania 1803-1815
• Among the Pennsylvania Dutch
Terence E. Hays's Review Of R. J. Blong's The Time Of Darkness: Local Legends And Volcanic Reality In Papua New Guinea, Terence E. Hays
Terence E. Hays's Review Of R. J. Blong's The Time Of Darkness: Local Legends And Volcanic Reality In Papua New Guinea, Terence E. Hays
Pacific Studies
No abstract provided.
Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 16 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.
Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 7 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.
Interview With Acie Carroll, D. 1989 (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Acie Carroll, D. 1989 (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 2 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 2, Peter C. Merrill, Theodore Graham Corbett, Cynthia Arps Corbett, Robert C. Williamson, Lee C. Hopple
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 2, Peter C. Merrill, Theodore Graham Corbett, Cynthia Arps Corbett, Robert C. Williamson, Lee C. Hopple
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Pennsylvania German Folk Crafts: The Living Tradition
• Europeans on the Frontier: Scotch-Irish Burial Stones in Pennsylvania
• The Survival of Pennsylvania German: A Survey of Berks and Lehigh Counties
• Germanic European Origins and Geographical History of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Schwenkfelders
• Aldes un Neies
Rose, Barry L. (Fa 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rose, Barry L. (Fa 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 199. Project includes a paper written by WKU Folk Studies student Rose, about Warren County, Kentucky musician Joe Marshall. Also includes a newspaper clipping and photos (5).
Folktales, Devil_Devils As An Owl-Female, 1983, 1985
Folktales, Devil_Devils As An Owl-Female, 1983, 1985
Mark Glazer's Traditional Mexican American Folklore Collection
Folktales collected by anthropology students 1983, 1985. NOTE: Physical access to this material is restricted. Personally identifiable information has been redacted from the digital file.