Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Faculty/Staff Personal Papers WKU Archives Records 1952 UA37/44 Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore Gordon Wilson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/fac_staff_papers Part of the Folklore Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Linguistic Anthropology Commons, Mass Communication Commons, Oral History Commons, and the Social History Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty/Staff Personal Papers by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ORIGINALS TIDBITS OF KENTUCKY FOLKLORE by Gordon Wilson Vol. VI Nos. 900-989, 999-1049 Tid Bits Article 900 Page l "THE BJOK SATCHEL 11 Late-s\Ulllller days remind me that schools are opening again, and school ties up all my memories, for I have been a pupil or student or teacher all my life and am now going into my forty-sixth year of teaching and fifty-eighth year as a student or pupil, And many things come baclc to me at this season, right now the memory of the old book satchel. It is probable- that nobody past forty ever heard of a book satchel. Books used to be rare and precious things, the property of the family, not of the state. There was a considerable investment in the books used by all the children of a b4! family, One of the devices to k~ep the books intact was the book satchel, It was in style so long that it became standardizedJ I know that the description of mine will fit your memory of yours, It was made of bed-ticking, with the stripes running up and down.