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Leach, Macedward; Ciassie, Henry a Guide for Collectors of Oral Traditions and Folk Cultural Material in Pennsylvania. Pennsylva DOCUMENT RESUME ED 126 543 CS 501 456 AUTHOR Leach, MacEdward; CIassie, Henry TITLE A Guide for Collectors of Oral Traditions andFolk Cultural Material in Pennsylvania. INSTITUTION Pennsylvania State Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. PUB DATE 73 NOTE 78p. AVAILABLE FROM Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, William Penn Memorial Museum, Box 1026,Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 ($0.75) EDPS PRICE MF-$0.83 Plus Postage. HC Nct Availablefrom EDBS. DESCPIPTORS Annotated Bibliographies; *Data Collection; *Ethnic Groups; *Ethnology; *Folk Culture; Guides; Local History; Oral Communication; *Oral History IDENTIFIERS *Pennsylvania AESTPACT This booklet was designed toserve as a stimulus and guide for those persons interested incollecting information and source material concerning the cultural and historicalcontributions, of ethnic groups in Pennsylvania. Thecontents consist of three sections: suggestions for collecting,examples of Pennsylvania folklore, and an annotated bibliography. Eachsection deals with tales, songs, dances and games, riddles,proverbs and speech, beliefs, customs, and material culture.(JM) *********************************************************************** DoctIments acquired by ERIC include many informalunpublished * materials not available from other sources.ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless,items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and thisaffects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductionsERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service(EDRS) . EBBS is not * responsible for the quality of the originaldocument. Reproductions * * supplied by EBBS are the best thatcan be made frcm the original. *********************************************************************** A Guide for Collectors: OTOlirTi:aditionsand Folk CulturalMaterial In Pennsylvania' S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS OOCVMENT HAS SEEN REPRO. Ok.W.E0 EXACTLy AS RECEWEO. FROM IHE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION 0., .IGIN- AroNG ti PQINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS stATE0 DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE. SENT OFF ,C,AL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY By MacEdward ,Leach, and Henry Glassie Second hinting Fitt hinting. 1%8 2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania THE PENNSYLVANIAHISTORICAL AND NIUSEUM COMMISSION 'Harrisburg, 1973 PE RMtS1''N f^,`'.,{`1- 4.4.0 aY MICRO T:AREPRODUCE A L t1V MI'CR If y vania , FICHE ONLY IIAS PEEN GRANTED ay Historical arid museum Commission ckprANO c'of RA, 4". .,TyDER .;REFvE NT: ,Trt THE NA" TO ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONS6PERAi NA, NS +TOE 01 FDt/EAT,ON ING UNDER AGREEMENTS wi1i4 T.E NA THE R RaFR)DUCT,ON 04, ?SIDE TKINAL INSTITUTE OF EMI( AT,ON THE ER,c .sySTFA REOINWES PERMIS FURTHER REPRODUCTION ou !sloe' SIGN OF PIE COPYRTC.W OWNER THE ERIC SYSTEM REQUIRES PERMIS SION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNER THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL AND MUSEUM COMMISSION MRS. FERNE SNIITH HETRICK, Chairman Is° BRIsELLI HOMER T. iROSENBERGER STANLEY T. BROSKY IRVIN G. ScuoRscn, JR. ALBERT W. GENDEBIEN MRS. NATHAN SCHWARTZ MRS. JAMES JOHN MAXWELL WIIITEMAN JOHN C. PVITENCER, ex officio Secretary of Education ' MEMBERS FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MRS. SARAH ANDERSON, Representative FREDERICK H. HOBBS, Sensor PAUL NV. MAHADY, Senator JAMES L. WRIGHT, JR., Representative TRUSTEES EX OFFICIO MILTON J. SHAN', Governor of the Commonwealth ROBERT P. CASEY. Auditor General GRACE M. SLOAN, State Treasurer 'AbMINISTRATIVE STAFF WILLIANt J. WEWER, Executive Director DONALD H. RENT, Director Bureau of Archives and Hi.story FRANKJ.SCHMIDT, Director Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties WILLIAM N, Ricumws, Director Bureau of 'Museums 3 FOREWORD In the fall of 196(1 the GeneralAssembly of Pennsylvania passed legislation enabling the PenusyIs.utiaHistorical and Museum Com- mission inset up a programto collec Cinformat ion and source material bearing upon thec ohm and historiml contributions of allof the ethnic groups in Pennsyls;mia.This "Ethnic Cultuie Survey" .has endeasored to search broadlyfor the ethnic materialsmost of tiny still um ecordedsvhii It base enrichedand continue to enrich ourState. It is hoped that hundreds ofPennsylsanians from school childrento professionalshistorians, teiichers,anthropologists, sociologists, geog- raphers, and folkloris.,will join us in gathering this importantma- terial together and bringingitto the Commission's Ethnic Culture Survey Collections andto publication. It is hoped, too, thatmany of the vigorous county and local histotkal societies in Pennsylvaniamay find in this programan effectise way to enrich their collections with significant material on the communitieswhich they serve. This book- let is designed to serveas a stituulus and a blueprint for those whomay need a word of guidance, andas a Imemory jogger for others. It is difficult to think ofa state that inc lodes more distinct cultures in its make-up than Pennsykania; but, astonishingly enough,except for the Pennsylvania Germans.most ethnic groups have been neglected in collections and studies ofPennsylsania history and folklore.It is a prime objective of the EthnicCulture Survey to correct this, but inso doing we shall not neglect theculture of the earlier immigrants; the English including the Quakers,the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh, the Scotch-Irish and the Germans.Our field of concentration, however, will be the later immigrants because they have not been studied.Some of these ethnicgroups have their own organizations, formallyor in-/ formally concerned with thecollection of their, ,traditions before tliyy are merged into the generalpattern. The Poles still do their old ,folk 0 dances and, on gala occasions,wear folk costumes; the Greeks sing old songs carried, from theMediterranean and celebrate Easter with special breads andeggs painted with folk figures; the Ukrainians of PhiladelAhia have kept Inuch.oftheir Old World culture alivethings like dances, costumes,songs. food, and customsand have transmitted it to the larger culture through festivals, displays, and bazaars.We shall, then, work with thePoles, the Lithuanians, Latvians, Slovaks, iii 4 Russians. Finns. Jews. (.tents, Italians, ihe Germans. the Welsh, and all alters wIto ma:r tain distinctise cultures within Pennsylvania such as the,Indians, the Negroes, and the migrants front other parts of \meat athe Down Fast Yankee, for example. The collected data tillhe made aiailable in org,anDed collections, in rim, festivals, and displf,ks. Waditions au- as rich and even more diversified than' those of (*Him states for which magnificent collections 'exist: itis shocking, tho don% that so little has been done in Pennsylvania. We 'has e tine historical studies and «illectiops based on written tettods in English: itt is algal time that materiai in foreign languages and ()talk .trnsidtted hate, on width most 'of the written material pr.:dhated, be gat !toed and published, The gthnic CultureSurvey` \\ as/mated to; that purpose. but we need your help.. Pleasesend in' Iacctal, mite us your suggestiOns,:n -give us leads. We promise ton that «Ale( thug Mull, materials can be a tit II,fascinating, and enjos.tbk: experience. S. K. STEvErss jituttar 15., 1968 iv , 0 __ AdKNOWLEDGME/TS I SA, When the general Assenkbly made it pos.siblfox. the Pennsylvala Historical and Museum Commission to- (levelp a program to collect oral and written materials on the culturalanthistorical contributions of the ethnic groups in Pennsylvania, the EtInk Culture Survey was 'planned and Organized in consultation wittDr. MacEdward Leach, chairman .emeritils of theradttate deparment of folklore at the p University of Pennsylvanif7r It )has quicklyrealized that, to carry on such a program effectively, it would be esse vialto have a guide. This would keep cdllcctors on the right trackn' gathering materials, and also encourage diem to join in this effort,o collect the fOlk traditions and other evidences of folk culture in Peii isylvania. Since nothingwas available which would apply to suchollecting iltthis State, Dr. / Leach undertbok to prepare a-guide.li, he time thu Ethnic Culture Survey began operation in January, 167, with the appointment of Henry Glassie as Associate Historian,r. Leach had prepared a draft for this Guide for Collectors of Oral Traditionsmut Folk Cultural Material in Pennsylvania. I .Unfortunately, Dr.Leach's great ;contributions in plariping the, ,Survey and drafting the Guide weresoon hampered by illness and finally halted by his untimely death on July 11, 1967. While hmain- tained his keen interest to the end, reviewing themanuscript and making suggestions, it was left for Mr. Glassieto prepare the Guide in its final form for publication. Mr. Classicrewrote and expanded the draft, more than doubling its length, in orderto bring it/in line with potential activities with ethnicgroups, historical societies, and local museum projects, in the light of hisexperience in the early thonths of its work. Mote examples and illustrationswere added to incorporate materiak front recent immigrantgroups, and to cover all phases of ethnic culture; anda sele4tive bibliography of suggested Jeadings was prepared to 'add furtherto its usefulness. The interest and support. of the PennsylvaniaHistorical and Mu- seum Commission have' made possible the publication of this Guide and have facilitated the work of the EthnicCulture Survey in many ways. Others on the Commission staff gave muchhelp andinforma- tion. Karl Rath, Commbion photographer,aided in preparing'illus- trations; and Harold L. Myers,
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