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Table of Contents:

• Amateur and professional folklorists by William M Hudson
• Some still do an essay on customs
• Waggoner's cowboys photographs and text by Francis Edward Abernethy
• Buttermilk is beautiful by Ernest B. Speck. Photographs by Tim Scheer
• Making syrup as told by Eugene Martin.
• Arden Hooks, Big Thicket bee courser Photographs and text by Joe S. Graham
• Tradition and the candedilla wax industry photgraphs and text by Joe S. Graham
• Geophagy in this generation by Ava Bush
• Fiddlers and festivals a Texas tradition by Joe Angle. Photographs by Kit van Cleave
• A lesson on playing mule by Leon Hale
• Chimney Dobbin' in the Big Thicket by Cecil V. Overstreet. Photographs from the Larry Jene Fisher Collection, Lama University Library.
• Jinkins seed store, Nacogdoches by Tim Van Riper
• Cedarcutters and others by C.W. Wimberley
• First Monday at Canton and some tales they tell by Jim Harris. Photographs by Robert Morris Abernethy
• Following the forked stick by Archie P. McDonald
• Faith healingby Freda Hardin, Norbert Korzeniewski, Tommy Hooper and David Hammers
• Whittler's bench
• Teneha, Texas by Francis Edward Abernethy.

Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Speck, Ernest , author

Martin, Eugene , author

Ramos, Ralph , author

Graham, Joe Stanley , author

Bush, Ava , author

Angle, Joe , author

Hale, Leon , author

Van Cleave, Kit , photographer

Overstreet, Cecil V. , author

Van Riper, Tim , author

Wimberley, C.W. , author

Harris, Jim , author

McDonald, Archie , author

Hooper, Tommy , author

Shockley, Martin , honouree

Hudson, Wilson M. , author

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Lewisville Public Library , donor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/dnr

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 39

Subjects:

Manners and customs

Texas — Social life and customs — Anecdotes

Texas

Genres:

Printed books — United States — Texas — Austin — 20th century

Works by women — United States — 20th century

Anecdotes

General Notes:

Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 123.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 2) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) Gift : Lewisville Public Library, October 2004.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 2) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 2) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.

Physical Description:

xx, 153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.39

OCLC Numbers:

1947225