More Details

Summary:

Contains a sample of the research conducted by members of the Texas Folklore Society at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings.

Table of Contents:

• "It's the Watkins man!" / Kenneth Davis
• "Now you hear my horn!" / Thad Sitton
• "That dirty little coward!" / Tony Clark
• Mother's Model T / George Ewing
• The origins of the Texas style of traditional old-time fiddling / Charles Gardner
• Epics of defeat: Texas' Alamo and Scotland's Culloden / Sylvia Grider
• The Roswell incident: fiftieth anniversary sell-abration / Becky Matthews
• Greetings from Frank Dobie / Kevin Hill and Jim Stuart
• Baby lore: the why and wherefore of it / Joyce Roach
• Grandparenting / Hazel S. Abernathy
• "It all began the day my conscience died": the cheatin' song from prototype to postmodern / Richard Holland
• La quniceañera: a Hispanic folk custom / Phyllis Bridges
• The breakfast of champions / J.G. Pinkerton
• Women a-horseback
• side or astride / Carolyn Norgaard
• "This story has no leeeeede!" / Mike Cox
• Recipes from Green Pastures / Mary Faulk Koock
• Take me out to the ballgame / John Lightfoot
• How cloth was dyed during the civil war in Washington County, Texas / Peggy Redshaw
• Uppity women / Archie McDonald

• Praising potted pork parts: Austin's one and only spamarama / L. Patrick Hughes.
• Homemade religion: miraculous images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary in south Texas / Rhett Rushing
• The Roy Bedichek family letters / Frances B. Vick
• Emily D. West and the yellow prose of Texas: a primer on some primary documents and their doctoring / James Lutzweiler
• The elusive Emily D. West, folksong's fabled "Yellow rose of Texas" / F.E. Abernethy.

View 5 more lines View less

Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward , editor

Thompson, Shannon R. , editor

Texas Folklore Society , issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: 2001 (1st ed.; Denton : University of North Texas Press, 2001 — LCCN 2001046146; OCLC Number 47521424)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 58

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Texas — Social life and customs

Folklore

Manners and customs

Texas

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 24, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.58 2001eb

ISBNs:

1574411403 [Invalid]
9781574411409 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

604127482