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Leible, Ann (Fa 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Leible, Ann (Fa 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 290. Paper: "Butterflies, Cyclones, and Jewelry Trees: My Family Folklore" written by Leible for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Koenig, Helen (Fa 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Koenig, Helen (Fa 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 292. Paper: "My Family Folklore" written by Koenig for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Badley, Kristie A. (Fa 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Badley, Kristie A. (Fa 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 267. Paper: "My Family Folklore: Functionary Mechanisms" written by Kristie A. Badley for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Anderson, Linda Allen (Fa 130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1986

Anderson, Linda Allen (Fa 130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 130. "The People of the Capitol", an oral history project describing the history of Frankfort, Kentucky, and the citizens of the state capitol. This paper includes information about the Frankfort Penitentiary (1800-1937), the role of the state government in the lives of the people, and the various ethnic groups who settled there.

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Interview With Dwight, Bill And Geneva Spradlin (Fa 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 1984

Interview With Dwight, Bill And Geneva Spradlin (Fa 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Dwight Spradlin, Bill Spradlin, and Gene Spradlin conducted by James Edward Spradlin on 5 March 1984. From folk studies student project concerning experiences of Dwight, Bill and Virginia Spradlin with recreation and entertainment in Floyd County, Kentucky during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Interview With Grace (Meador) Galloway (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 1983

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.

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 1, Clement Valletta, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Allen G. Noble, Jean M. Danis Oct 1983

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

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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 …

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 1, Angus K. Gillespie, Susan Stewart, Mac E. Barrick, Gary D. Hydinger, Leonard Primiano, Louis Winkler, Gordon C. Baker Oct 1976

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 1, Angus K. Gillespie, Susan Stewart, Mac E. Barrick, Gary D. Hydinger, Leonard Primiano, Louis Winkler, Gordon C. Baker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Pennsylvania Folk Festivals in the 1930s
• Rational Powwowing: An Examination of Choice among Medical Alternatives in Rural York County, Pennsylvania
• Memories of a Moonshiner
• The Pennsylvania Germans: Folklife Studies from Autobiographical Sources
• Student Life at a Pennsylvania Dutch College
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy & Astrology XIV: Health and the Heavens
• A Traditional Family Reunion
• Roads, Ferries, Fords and Bridges: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 45

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Pillow, Shirley (Fa 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1972

Pillow, Shirley (Fa 1348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1348. Student folk studies project titled “Quilting” which includes a description of the traditional folk art of quilting in Logan County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include a brief description of traditional practice, tools, photos, quilt blocks, informant’s name, location, and text classification.

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Mcwhirter, Patricia (Fa 1365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1972

Mcwhirter, Patricia (Fa 1365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1365. Student folk studies project titled “Folklore on Pregnancy and Childbirth” which includes survey sheets with traditional practices and beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth in Henery County, Illinois and Jefferson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of the traditional practice or belief, the informant’s name, location, birth month and year, text classification, and motif annotation.

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Taylor, Beth (Fa 1362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1972

Taylor, Beth (Fa 1362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1362. Student folk studies project titled “Courtship and Marriage” which includes survey sheets about traditional beliefs about courtship, weddings, and marriage in Jefferson County and Simpson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include brief description of belief, proverb, superstition, custom, or tradition, informant’s name and address, along with text classification.

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Newman, Janice (Fa 1367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1972

Newman, Janice (Fa 1367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1367. Student folk studies project titled “Quilting (Bertha Abney)” which includes information about traditional quilting practices in Jefferson County, Kentucky. All of the information comes from an interview with Newman’s family friend, Bertha Abney. Project includes a narrative paper about the experience and sheets that may include an illustration, photo, quilt pattern’s name, brief description of a traditional practice or quilt pattern.

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Berryman, Libby (Fa 1346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1972

Berryman, Libby (Fa 1346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1346. Student folk studies project titled “Superstions [sic] Associated with Pregnancy” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of traditional folk beliefs about pregnancy in the counties of Carroll, Daviess, Franklin, Green, Hardin, Jefferson, Muhlenberg, Shelby and Warren in Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief or traditional practice, informant’s name and religious affiliation, date, and text classification.

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Harmon, Rebecca C. (Fa 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1972

Harmon, Rebecca C. (Fa 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1356. Folklife project titled "The Legend of Oak Island" by Rebecca C. Harmon for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Project includes a paper about the legend of treasure on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Survey sheets may include a brief description of a variation of the legend, belief, text classification, and informant’s name and address. Restricted.

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Utley, Mary (Fa 1366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1972

Utley, Mary (Fa 1366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1366. Student folk studies project titled “Quilt Making” which includes information about traditional quilting practices in Henderson County, Kentucky. All of the information comes from an interview with Utley’s great grandmother, Mary Mathilda Bonnell. Project includes a narrative paper about the experience and survey sheets that may include a traditional belief, the informant’s name, location, birth month and year, and text classification. Other sheets include a photo, brief description of a quiltmaking process and/or a photo of a quilt or piece of quilt with the pattern’s name.

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Linde, Janet (Fa 1360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1972

Linde, Janet (Fa 1360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1360. Student folk studies project titled “Modern Ghost Tales Or Scary Stories” which includes survey sheets about traditional ghost stories in Florida and Cumberland County, Jefferson County and Union County, Kentucky. Sheets may include brief description of ghost story or tale, informant’s name, address and birth month and year, along with text classification.

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Gipson, Georgina (Fa 1353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1972

Gipson, Georgina (Fa 1353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1353. Folklife project titled "Folk Remedies" by Georgina Gipson for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Project includes a paper about traditional folk remedies in Logan County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include a brief description of the belief, informant’s name, birth location, birth month and year, annotation, and text classification.

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Schulte, Clifford "Skip" (Fa 1352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1972

Schulte, Clifford "Skip" (Fa 1352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1352. Folklife project titled "Superstitions Among the Members of the 1972 Daviess County High School Track Team" by Skip Schulte for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Project includes a paper about traditional high school sport superstitions and rituals in Daviess County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include a brief description of the belief, informant’s name, birth location and age, and text classification.

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Mohon, Georgia (Fa 1355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1972

Mohon, Georgia (Fa 1355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1355. Folklife project titled "Horse Training and Showing – English Style" by Georgia Mohon for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Project includes a paper about training horses in the English style in Warren County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include a brief description of the training practice, tools, text classification, and photograph.

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Mcginnis, Owen Thomas, Jr. "Tom" (Fa 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1972

Mcginnis, Owen Thomas, Jr. "Tom" (Fa 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1351. Folklife project titled "Weather Signs" by Owen Thomas “Tom” McGinnis, Jr. for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Project includes a paper about traditional weatherlore in Christian County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include an interview or list with a brief description of the belief, informant’s name, location, birth location and age, and text classification.

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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

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Dieffenbach On Diapers: "Die Windla," April 10th, 1956, Victor C. Dieffenbach Apr 1956

Dieffenbach On Diapers: "Die Windla," April 10th, 1956, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten manuscript entitled "Diapers: die Windla," written by Victor C. Dieffenbach, dated April 10, 1956. Within, Dieffenbach details superstitions about diapers and their effects on children later in life, as well as omens and tales related to witchcraft and pow-wowing cures.

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Dieffenbach On Corn, October 1, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach Oct 1953

Dieffenbach On Corn, October 1, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

Handwritten manuscript entitled, "Corn", by Victor C. Dieffenbach, dated October 1, 1953. Within, Dieffenbach details various processes of harvesting and husking corn that he gathered from Berks County, Lebanon County and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Also included are lore and superstitious beliefs related to corn.

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Dieffenbach On Beets, August 10, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach Aug 1953

Dieffenbach On Beets, August 10, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

Handwritten manuscript entitled, "Beets!: De Rode-reeva!", compiled by Victor C. Dieffenbach, dated August 10, 1953. Within, Dieffenbach discusses the various ways to cultivate beets and their subsequent uses thereafter. He also provides anecdotes and superstitions surrounding this vegetable.

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Dieffenbach On Endive, June 15, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach Jun 1953

Dieffenbach On Endive, June 15, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten manuscript entitled, "Endive - "der Ondiffy!", compiled by Victor C. Dieffenbach, dated June 15, 1953. Within, Dieffenbach details the cultivation methods his family employed as a child to successfully grow endive.

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Dieffenbach On Beans, May 25, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach May 1953

Dieffenbach On Beans, May 25, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten manuscript entitled, "Beans - De Boona!", compiled by Victor C. Dieffenbach, dated May 25, 1953. Within, Dieffenbach details various bean cultivation methods, superstitions, recipes, songs and anecdotes about bean consumption - some in Pennsylvania Dutch dialect.

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Dieffenbach On Onions, May 18, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach May 1953

Dieffenbach On Onions, May 18, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten manuscript entitled, "Onions - "De Tswivla", compiled by Victor C. Dieffenbach, dated May 18, 1953. Within, Dieffenbach details his knowledge of onions, including farming techniques, superstitions, and breed varieties.

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Dieffenbach On Dogs: Superstitions And Beliefs, March 9, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach Mar 1953

Dieffenbach On Dogs: Superstitions And Beliefs, March 9, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

Handwritten manuscript entitled, "Dogs: Superstitions and Beliefs", by Victor C. Dieffenbach, dated March 9, 1953. Within, Dieffenbach details a number of folk beliefs and superstitions surrounding dogs, ranging from secret breeding techniques to a tale about a dog trying to save his master from suicide.

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Dieffenbach On Superstition Among The Pennsylvania Dutch, January 12, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach Jan 1953

Dieffenbach On Superstition Among The Pennsylvania Dutch, January 12, 1953, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten manuscript entitled, "Superstition Among the Pennsylvania Dutch", compiled by Victor C. Dieffenbach, dated January 12, 1953. Within, Dieffenbach discusses a number of superstitions he grew up hearing, ranging from the neigh of a black horse signifying an upcoming funeral to the existence of fairy dance circles.

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