1 Publications

Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore (2000-2019)

New York Folklore (1975-1999)

New York Folklore Quarterly (1945-1974)

2 Volume 45 Spring-Summer 2019

FEATURES

3 The Traveling Fandango: Son Jarocho in New York by Renata Del Riego

13 Two Minutes: The Making of the Battenkill Inspired Video Series by Hannah DeGarmo

22 Oral History and Urban Renewal: Creating Richer Histories by Ben Himmelfarb

35 How I Became a Doo-Wop Fan 10 Years Too Late by Raanan Geberer

38 Virtuous Versifying: A Composition About Rhymes by Eric L. Ball

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

11 ALN8BAL8MO: A Native Voice by Joseph Bruchac

18 Upstate by Dan Berggren

20 Downstate by Molly Garfinkel and Steve Zeitlin

29 Poetry of Everyday Life by Steve Zeitlin

44 From the Waterfront by Nancy Solomon

1 Volume 44 Spring-Summer & Fall-Winter 2018

FEATURES

3 Haudenosaunee Days of Sharing at Explore & More Children’s Museum in Buffalo, New York by Christine F. Zinni

28 Evviva San Giuseppe! St. Joseph’s Table Celebrations in Rural Western New York by Karen P. Canning and Christine F. Zinni

46 Music and Food in Multicultural Syracuse: Project Report by Sydney Hutchinson

60 Hog-Rassle: Impromptu Behavior at Old-Time Square Dances by James Kimball

66 A Telling Image: Bridging Folk and Fine Art Visitor Repertoires in Exhibit Design through Contemporary Murals in Folk Arts Contexts by Edward Y. Millar

74 Telescope Houses in Buffalo by David Schalliol

78 Spiedies, Grape Pies, and Garbage Plates (Oh My!): A Serious Look at Upstate New York’s Silly- Sounding Foods by Hannah Davis

84 Upstate New York’s Irish Music Archive by Ted McGraw

87 Explore Buffalo by Todd DeGarmo and Tom van Buren

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

25 Upstate by Dan Berggren

26 Downstate by Molly Garfinkel

44 From the Waterfront by Nancy Solomon

58 Poetry of Everyday Life by Steve Zeitlin

86 Good Read by Chris Linendoll

2 Volume 43 Fall-Winter 2017

FEATURES

3 Maritime Folklife of New York City’s Forgotten Borough by Naomi Sturm and Daniel Franklin Ward

11 In Memoriam: Jack H. Leadley, Sr. (1927–2018)

17 Fruit in the Forest: Foraging Apples and Pressing Cider in the Finger Lakes by Maria Elizabeth Kennedy

23 At Work in the Garden of Eat and Be Eaten by Chuck F. Tekula, Jr

24 “The Golden Arm”: Collecting and Performing the Folktale by Timothy Jennings

30 Pageantry Puppets, Community Memory, and Living Traditions: Extending the Reach of Cultural and Educational Institutions into Immigrant Communities by Kate Grow McCormick

38 In Memoriam: Gregory Sharrow (1950–2018)

40 The Market on Saturday Night by Dan Milner

41 Two Poems: Jack “Legs” Diamond and Portal by Shannon Cuthbert

42 Analysis and Intuition: Reflections on the Mystic Union of Measure and Abandon in the Art of Figure Drawing by Stephen Alcorn

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

12 Upstate by Dan Berggren

13 Poetry of Everyday Life by Steve Zeitlin

16 Good Spirits by Libby Tucker

29 Voices of New York by Libby Tucker

35 ALN8BAL8MO: A Native Voice by Joseph Bruchac

37 From the Waterfront by Nancy Solomon

39 Artist Spotlight

3 Volume 43 Spring-Summer 2017

FEATURES

3 From Trapper’s Cabin To Festival Stage: The Evolution of an Adirondack Storyteller by Varick A. Chittenden

18 Crossing Cultures by Thomas J. MacPherson

24 You’ll See Our Tracks: The Raquette River Dams Oral History Project by Camilla Ammirati

36 Gouging Tradition: Musings on Fingernail Fiddle Making by Eric L. Ball

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

14 Upstate by Dan Berggren

15 Downstate by Molly Garfinkel with Steve Zeitlin and Elena Martínez

22 ALN8BAL8MO: A Native Voice by Joseph Bruchac

23 Good Spirits by Libby Tucker

32 Book Review: Sad Characters of American Folk Songs by Frieda Toth

33 The Poetry Of Everyday Life by Steve Zeitlin

35 Book Review: A Jumpstart for Inspiration, A Salve for Troubled Times by Nancy Scheemaker

44 From the Waterfront by Nancy Solomon

46 Foodways by Jennifer Morrisey

4 Volume 42 Fall-Winter 2016

FEATURES

3 “The Wreck of the Julie Plante” and Its Offspring by Stan Ransom

12 What’s Your Watershed? Folklore at the Intersection of Place, Culture, and the Environment by Ellen McHale, PhD

18 An Interview with Hannah Davis: Regional Folklife Survey and Program Development Consultant for the New York Folklore Society and the New York State Council on the Arts Interview by Jason Baird Jackson

26 Echoes of Familiar Rhythms: Puerto Rican & Garifuna Drums by Elena Martínez

32 Democratizing the (Folk) Arts Nonprofit Workplace by Eileen Condon

36 Radio Flyer by Helen Condon

38 Transcendence: Making Meaning with American Public Folklore Diplomacy Programming in Nanjing, China [excerpt] by Beverly Butcher, PhD, with Li Jinke and Xu Jiayi

44 Snowdrops: Science, Myths, and Folklore by Barbara Schramm

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

7 Upstate: The Gift of Song by Dan Berggren

8 Downstate: Jim and Julie by Steve Zeitlin

24 ALN8BAL8MO: A Native Voice—Tom Sakokwenionkwas Porter by Joseph Bruchac

25 Artist Spotlight: Bill Smith

31 Voices of New York: Maxwell Kofi Donkor & Sankofa Drum and Dance Ensemble by Polly Adema

45 Good Read: Charlie Whistler’s Omnium Gatherum: Campfire Stories and Adirondack Adventures by Chris Linendoll

5 Volume 42 Spring-Summer 2016

FEATURES

3 Sesame Flyers International [excerpt] by Molly Garfinkel

10 The Dream of America / El Sueño de América: Separation & Sacrifice in the Lives of North Country Latino Immigrants [excerpt] Photos by Lisa Catalfamo-Flores

17 Remembering Bill Nicolaisen (1927–2016) by Libby Tucker

21 Recovering the Stories of Chinese Immigrants in the Spa City [excerpt] by Yiyun “Evian” Pan

30 New York Heritage: A Digital Archives [excerpt] by Susan D’Entremont

36 Camp Woodland Memories Inspire A Poem by Mickey Vandow

41 Critical Thinking, Wisdom, and Paying Homage to the Human Experience by Amy St. Clair

44 Seasons in Schuylerville, New York by Jeromy McFarren

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

7 Upstate: Hail Fredonia, Pinch Gut, and Minerva! Place Names in New York State by Dan Berggren

8 Downstate: A People Who Live by the Word by Steve Zeitlin

16 Good Spirits: Ghosts Moving Furniture by Libby Tucker

27 Voices of New York: Dan Berggren—Fresh Territory

34 ALN8BAL8MO: A Native Voice—Ray Tehanetorens Fadden: He Saw Between the Trees by Joseph Bruchac

38 Artist Spotlight: Enikö Farkas

46 From the Waterfront: Rebuilding after Sandy by Nancy Solomon

6 Volume 41 Fall-Winter 2015

FEATURES

3 An Inside View of Contra Dancing in Brooklyn, 2015: Swing Your Partner and Do-Si-Do [excerpt] by Jody Kruskal

16 Advocating for Sunday Rock (and all those other “Traditional Cultural Properties”) [excerpt] by Varick A. Chittenden

25 A Staten Island Education [excerpt] by Hilene Flanzbaum

30 Reflections & Vision: A Conversation with the Outgoing and Incoming New York Folklore Society Board Presidents by Gabrielle M. Hamilton and Tom van Buren

34 A Transitional Interpretation: American Roots Music by Five Photographers [excerpt] by Andrzej “Andre” Pilarczyk, Lawrence White, Enid Farber, Joseph Deuel, and Bryan Lasky

42 Songs to Keep—“Getting the Lore Back to the Folk” [excerpt] by Daniel Franklin Ward, PhD

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

12 Upstate: Singing Along by Dan Berggren

14 Downstate: The People’s City Report Card 2015 by Steve Zeitlin

24 Good Spirits: Mountain Magic by Libby Tucker

33 Artist Spotlight: George A. Olsen, Jr.

41 Voices of New York: Sara Milonovich—Daisycutter

46 Good Read: Saratoga Springs–A Centennial History Review by Chris Linendoll

46 Book Review: Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley by Frieda Toth

7 Volume 41 Spring-Summer 2015

FEATURES

3 The Danzaq of Southern Peru in New York Crossed Scissors at the Crossroads of Immigration [excerpt] by Tom van Buren

16 Drawing The Line: Reflections on the Importance of Drawing by Hand in an Increasingly Digital Age [excerpt] by Stephen Alcorn

28 Craft Revisited: Moving toward a Consumer Revolution [excerpt] by Jeromy McFarren

42 In Memoriam: Hilt Kelly: Catskills Fiddler and Caller by Jim Kimball

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

12 Good Spirits: Home, Sweet Homewood by Libby Tucker

13 Upstate: Getting Off Track by Dan Berggren

14 Downstate: High Banter by Steve Zeitlin

38 ALN8BAL8MO: A Native Voice—BEING IROQUOIS: Arthur C. Parker by Joseph Bruchac

40 Artist Spotlight: Joe Crookston—Singing and Painting for the Beauty

41 Good Read Tahawus Memories, 1941–1963: The Story of a Unique Adirondack Hometown Review by Chris Linendoll

46 From the Waterfront: From Boatyards to Condos by Nancy Solomon

48 NYFS News and Notes

8 Volume 40 Fall-Winter 2014

FEATURES

3 In Her Own Words: The Story of Alice Testrake [excerpt] Collected and Illustrated by Valerie Walawender

20 Cultured Wilderness and Wild Culture The Olmsted Legacy in Rochester and Graffiti in the Grove [excerpt] by Charles Burroughs

28 How I Spent My Summer (1967) [excerpt] by Erica Wolfe Burke

32 Evaluation of Petrifaction Legends in Turkey in Terms of Cultural Heritage and Tourism [excerpt] by Hasan Buğrul

42 Remembering My Grandfather’s Left-Wing Bungalow Colony in Dutchess County [excerpt] by Raanan Geberer

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

12 Upstate: An Open Invitation To My Downstate Friends by Varick A. Chittenden

18 Downstate: Lion’s Gate by Steve Zeitlin

31 Obituary: Yacub Addy

40 From the Waterfront: Rumrunners on the Bay by Nancy Solomon

44 Voices in New York: Bairbre McCarthy—Irish Storyteller by Anna Mulé

45 Good Read Caffè Lena: Inside America’s Legendary Folk Music Coffeehouse by Chris Linendoll

45 Book Review Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag by Frieda Toth

46 NYFS News and Notes

9 Volume 40 Spring-Summer 2014

FEATURES

3 Rafael Hernández and the Puerto Rican Legacy of the 369th Regiment’s Harlem Hellfighters by Elena Martínez

14 Hermanos y Amigos de Guatemala: Folklore as Strategy for Cultural Survival by Tom van Buren

19 A Song for Pete Seeger by Joe Stead

20 America’s Last True Folk Hero by Michael D’Antuono

22 Irv and Fran Shapiro Folk Music Library by Maureen Dye

26 The Seven Trees and Ramapough Ethnicity by Gary Van Valen

32 “Dead Man’s Liver”—A Jump Tale Collected, retold, and arranged for performance by Tim Jennings

44 Steppers With Class by Zoe van Buren

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

13 Good Spirits: Legend Quests to Lily Dale by Libby Tucker

24 Downstate: ThePOEMobile Dreams of Peace by Steve Zeitlin

38 ALN8BAL8MO– A Native Voice: A Name to Remember by Joseph Bruchac

40 Upstate: The View at the Top of the State by Varick A. Chittenden

42 Voices in New York: Abdoulaye “Djoss” Diabaté— The Seed of Mandé Tradition Germinates in the New World by Sylvain Leroux

31 NYFS News and Notes

10 Volume 39 Fall-Winter 2013

FEATURES

3 Reimagining Irish Lace in Western New York by Carrie Hertz

14 Raquel Z. Rivera: Portrait of a Puerto Rican Artist and Scholar Introduction and Interview by Eileen Condon

28 Fair Fotos by Wendy Liberatore, Photographs by Clifford Oliver

38 Remembering Karyl Denison Eaglefeathers: A link in the chain of New York Folklore by Ira McIntosh

48 Remembering Pete Seeger by Ellen McHale

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

12 Upstate: The Times (on the Farm), They Have Changed! by Varick A. Chittenden

13 Downstate: Annie’s Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir by Steve Zeitlin

27 Foodways: Saturday Night Baked Beans by Margaret French

41 ALN8BAL8MO– A Native Voice: He Comes Flying by Joseph Bruchac

43 Voices in New York: The Fraser Family by Dr. Constance Sullivan-Blum

44 NYFS News and Notes

11 Volume 39 Spring-Summer 2013

FEATURES

3 AGUDAS ACHIM: A Century of Friendship and Shared Memories of Jewish Life in the Catskills by Benjamin Halpern

14 Spirit Dolls (Muñequitas) in New York Puerto Rican Homes: Engaging with Saints and Ancestors by Eileen Condon

24 The Holocaust, the Catskills, and the Creative Power of Loss by Holli Levitsky

32 Hittin’ The Streets With The NYC Tranzformerz by Elizabeth A. Burbach

36 YMCA Camp Chingachgook on Lake George Celebrates its Centennial by George Painter

42 The Spy Who Snubbed Me by Frieda Toth

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

12 Upstate: Coming Home, Fifty Years Later! by Varick A. Chittenden

13 Downstate: Kindred Spirits by Steve Zeitlin

23 Good Spirits: New York’s Haunted Bars by Libby Tucker

30 Play: History Buried—America’s All-Star Game of 1858 by John Thorn

31 Songs: The Maritime “Folksongs” of Edward Harrigan by Dan Milner

40 NYFS News and Notes: Occupational Folklore by Lisa Overholser

46 View from the Waterfront: After Sandy by Nancy Solomon

47 Book Review

48 Voices in New York: Æ by Elena Martínez

12 Volume 38 Fall-Winter 2012

FEATURES

3 Drummer, Give Me My Sound: Reflections on the Life and Legacy of Frisner Augustin by Lois Wilcken

13 Flash Fiction Stories by Joseph Sciorra

14 Keeping the Adirondack Arts, Crafts, & Traditions Alive by Jim Mandle

22 Andy Statman, National Heritage Fellow: Innovating across Musical Worlds by Pete Rushefsky

30 Rounding up the Memories: Personal Histories of the Dude Ranch Days in Warren County, New York by Annie S. Yocum

38 Hanging on to Tradition by Andy Flynn

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

12 View from the Waterfront: Eyes on Sandy by Nancy Solomon

20 Upstate: Sir David and the Covered Dish Supper by Varick A. Chittenden

21 Downstate: The Humor Pill by Steve Zeitlin

28 Play: Who Remembers Pushball? by John Thorn

37 Good Spirits: Children Who See and Hear Ghosts by Libby Tucker

44 Voices in New York: Dawnland by Lisa Overholser

46 Foodways: Life with a Gingerbread Man Cookie by Elsie Borden DeGarmo-Smith

47 NYFS News and Notes

13 Volume 38 Spring-Summer 2012

FEATURES

3 Growing Community in the Courthouse Community Garden by Annette Nielsen

11 The Creamsicle by Helen Condon

14 Sullivan County’s Diehl Homestead Farm: A Living Testament to the Heritage and Dedication of Six Generations on the Land by Benjamin Halpern

20 Keeping Watch: The Practice of Poetry by Margaret R. Yocom

26 Long Ago and Far Away by Teri Blasko and Jeff Durstewitz

32 “Local Sustainability in the Battenkill Valley” Focus of Folklorist Retreat in Washington County by Todd DeGarmo

38 “Low Bridge, Everybody Down!” An Erie Canal Music Celebration by Lisa Overholser

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

12 Upstate: Over the River and through the Woods... by Varick A. Chittenden

13 Downstate: Nations in Neighborhoods by Steve Zeitlin and Amanda Dargan

19 Play: The Legendary Hall of Fame by John Thorn

25 Good Spirits: Spirits of the Falls by Libby Tucker

37 Foodways: Grandmother’s Chili Sauce by Carol Gregson

44 Voices in New York: Grupo Rebolú by Gabrielle Hamilton

46 NYFS News and Notes

48 Reviews

14 Volume 37 Fall-Winter 2011

FEATURES

3 Ethnicity, Nostalgia, Affirmation: The Rhetoric of Italian American Identity by Michael Buonanno

11 Dialogues with Time by Roman Turovsky-Savchuk

16 Yuri Yunakov: 2011 National Heritage Fellow by Pete Rushefsky and Ethel Raim

24 Follow Spot: Growing the Ranks by Kristen Andresen

27 Jewish Activities on Christmas: An Online Case Study by Mu Li

36 Essere Vecchi é Brutto by Frank Campagna

38 A Report from an Embroiderers’ Gathering by Ellen McHale and Lisa Overholser

42 The New York Folklore Society Features “Legends and Tales” at Its 2011 Annual Conference by Lisa Overholser

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

10 NurorAsian: Asian American Arts in New York—From the Killing Fields: Art and Healing in Asian America by Andrea Louie

14 Upstate: Why I Love the PO! by Varick A. Chittenden

15 Downstate: Poetry on the Porch by Steve Zeitlin

20 In Memoriam: Remembering Jean Crandall (1964–2011) Reflections by “Las Mujeres” (The Folklore Girls) by Eileen Condon, Elena Martínez, and Hanna Griff-Sleven

23 Play: Lost Treasures by John Thorn

26 Good Spirits: Down to the Depths by Libby Tucker

34 Still Going Strong: Sailmaker by Paul Margolis

35 View from the Waterfront: Fishing Partners: Remembering Cory Weyant by Nancy Solomon

41 Songs: New York and the Sea by Dan Milner

44 Reviews

15 Volume 37 Spring-Summer 2011

FEATURES

3 Bagels and Genres by Jonathan Sadow

12 Petanque in New York by Valérie Feschet

24 From Central Park Rumba with Love! by Berta Jottar

32 Bringing Old-Time Fiddling into the Twenty-First Century by Jackie Hobbs

36 A Family History Quilt by Ruby L. Marcotte

42 Annual Conference Roundup by Lisa Overholser

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

10 Upstate: Summertime ... and the Eating is Easy! by Varick A. Chittenden

11 Downstate: Place Moments by Steve Zeitlin

21 Play: Way Down upon the Hudson River by John Thorn

22 First Person: Never-Ending Pursuit of Rhythm by Julissa C. Vale

34 Songs: New York on the Half Shell by Dan Milner

35 View from the Waterfront: Fishing Perspectives by Nancy Solomon

41 Good Spirits: Ghosts of the ICU by Libby Tucker

46 Still Going Strong: Milliner by Paul Margolis

47 Reviews

16 Volume 36 Fall-Winter 2010

FEATURES

3 Singing at the East Village Ukrainian Senior Center: A Reflection by Nadia Tarnawsky

7 Nadia Tarnawsky: A Ukrainian-American Singer’s Journey by Eileen Condon and Nadia Tarnawsky

12 The Mighty Raff: 2010 National Heritage Award Winner by Mick Moloney

15 Voces con Eco: A Sample of Writing from Mano a Mano Collected and edited by Luz Aguirre Introduced by Emily Socolov and Mary Ellen Sanger

31 Button Accordions: A Call for Information by Ted McGraw

36 Folk Arts Champion: Bess Lomax Hawes, 1921–2009 by Robert Baron

39 Hindu Domestic Mandirs: Home Temples in Greater New York by Puja Sahney

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

10 Upstate: The New Obit by Varick A. Chittenden

11 Downstate: The People’s City Report Card by Steve Zeitlin

14 Still Going Strong: Midwife by Paul Margolis

26 Artist Profile: Ferenc Keresztesi: Traditional Hungarian Wood-Carving by Lisa Overholser

30 Play: Bee’s Knees and Cat’s Whiskers by John Thorn

35 Songs: Older Singers and Old Recordings by Dan Milner

38 Good Spirits: Digging Deep by Libby Tucker

45 View from the Waterfront: Place and People in Time by Nancy Solomon

46 Reviews

17 Volume 36 Spring-Summer 2010

FEATURES

3 The Vodou Kase: The Drum Break in New York Temples and Dance Classes by Lois E. Wilcken

10 Saint Rip by John Thorn

18 Diego Obregón: Innovation and Tradition Flow from Colombia to Queens by Gabrielle Hamilton and Naomi Sturm

23 The Grateful Terrorist: Folklore as Psychological Coping Mechanism by Trisha L. Smith, Grafton Eliason, Jeff L. Samide, Adrian Tomer, and Mark Lepore

30 North by Northeast: NYFS Celebrates Mohawk and Tuscarora Traditions by Lisa Overholser

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

16 Upstate: North Country on the Rocks! by Varick A. Chittenden

17 Downstate: Dreams and Money by Steve Zeitlin

22 Songs: Get Ready for the Civil War by Dan Milner

28 Still Going Strong: Brewmaster by Paul Margolis

29 Good Spirits: Orbs and Avatars by Libby Tucker

35 Play: The Last Resort by John Thorn

36 In Praise of Women: Maria Yoon by Eileen Condon

37 Books to Note

18 Volume 35 Fall-Winter 2009

FEATURES

4 Carving Out a Life: Reflections of an Ithaca Wood-Carver by Mary Michael Shelley

13 From Wild Man to Monster: The Historical Evolution of Bigfoot in New York State by Robert E. Bartholomew and Brian Regal

16 Xiao Xiannian: New Sounds for Chinese Strings by Pete Rushefsky

23 Fieldwork, Memory, and the Impact of 9/11 on an Eastern Tennessee Klansman: A Folklorist’s Reflection by Trevor J. Blank

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

3 Announcements

10 Upstate: The “Lore” Back to the “Folk” by Varick A. Chittenden

11 Downstate: Is Sex Play? by Steve Zeitlin

12 Songs: Tim Finigan’s Wake by Dan Milner

32 Foodways: The Bronx Seedless Grape Makalé Faber Cullen

22 Good Spirits: Tiny Feet on the Stairs by Libby Tucker

28 Still Going Strong: Juggler by Paul Margolis

29 Play: The Making of a New York Folk Hero by John Thorn

30 Reviews

19 Volume 35 Spring-Summer 2009

FEATURES

4 Dynamic yet Fragile: Reconsidering the Archive of New York State Folklife by Ryan A. Donaldson

12 Set in Stone: The Art of Stonework and Wall Building in Westchester County by Tom van Buren

20 Chicago Folklore Prize Winner: Felicia R. McMahon’s Not Just Child’s Play by Libby Tucker

26 Mikvah Musings by Hanna Griff-Sleven

30 How the FBI Proved that My Father Wore Overalls: A McCarthy-Era Story for Our Times by Paul Margolis

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

11 Still Going Strong: Wig Maker by Paul Margolis

18 Upstate: The [Adirondack] Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music! by Varick A. Chittenden

19 Downstate: Free Market Flavor by Steve Zeitlin

25 Foodways: The Big Concession by Makalé Faber Cullen

28 Play: Yankee Doodling by John Thorn

29 In Praise of Women: Maeve Flanagan by Eileen Condon

32 Good Spirits: Bed, Breakfast, and Ghosts by Libby Tucker

20 Volume 34 Fall-Winter 2008

FEATURES

3 Comfort in Cloth: The Syracuse University Remembrance Quilt by Dee Britton

8 Hallowed Ground Photographs by Martha Cooper

10 Ritual and Storytelling: A Passover Tale by Barbara Myerhoff; Introduction by Steve Zeitlin

16 A Trip to Poppies by Ashley Torregrossa

18 Filer-Machol: Couturier to “Our Crowd” by Mari S. Gold

28 Diatonisk and the Dulcimer by Nils R. Caspersson

38 One the Needle, Another the Thread: Ahiska in Syracuse by Felicia Faye McMahon

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 NYFS News

7 In Praise of Women: Elena Martínez by Eileen Condon

15 Play: That Dastardly Dime Novel by John Thorn

24 Upstate: New Immigrants in Black Buggies by Varick A. Chittenden

25 Downstate: City of Memory by Steve Zeitlin

26 Field Notes: Meet our Neighbors: The Nepali People of Bhutan by Felicia Faye McMahon

27 Good Spirits: Houses of Horror by Libby Tucker

35 Obituary: Henrietta Yurchenco, 1916-2007 by Eileen Condon

36 Still Going Strong: Schooner Captain by Paul Margolis

37 Foodways: No Egg, No Cream by Lynn Case Ekfelt

41 Reading Culture: The Oral Tradition Goes Digital by Tom Van Buren

42 Books to Note

21 Volume 34 Spring-Summer 2008

FEATURES

3 Wise Fools, Foolish Virgins, and Dirty Tricksters: Gershon Legman and American Folk Humor by Susan Davis

12 Forty-Seven Years at 47 Phila Street: America’s Oldest Continuously Running Folk Coffeehouse by Jocelyn Arem

20 Words of Steel: Pete Seeger and the U.S. Navy Steel Band by Andrew Martin

28 Frontier New York: A Personal Experience by Les Cleveland

36 An Internet Tour of Bosnian Music by Rick March

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

9 Artist Profile: Pauline Yarema

10 Upstate: When the Flamingos Return to Canton by Varick A. Chittenden

11 Downstate: Talking Points by Steve Zeitlin

19 Reading Culture: A Problem of National Folklore by Tom van Buren

26 Good Spirits: Ghosts of Abandoned Hospitals by Libby Tucker

27 Play: Ah, Fib by John Thorn

34 Still Going Strong: NYPD Farrier by Paul Margolis

35 In Praise of Women: Lydia Fish by Eileen Condon

42 Foodways: Bravo Italiano! by Lynn Case Ekfelt

43 Books to Note

22 Volume 33 Fall-Winter 2007

FEATURES

3 Anthropology 300: Creating a Quilt Community at Syracuse University by Susan S. Wadley

12 Humor, History and Tall Tales: Rereading the Adirondack College Student by Andrew Shawn Andermatt

16 Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake by Stanley A. Ransom

24 Here Was New York: Memorial Images of the Twin Towers by Kay Turner

35 Oral Culture and History Today: Joanne Shenandoah and Jack W. Gladstone by Linda Rosekrans

43 “It’s a Very Dynamic Moose”: Narrative, Creativity, and Memory in a Traditional Art by Andrea Kitta

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

10 Upstate by Varick A. Chittenden

11 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

15 Announcements

22 Artist Profile: The Flint Sisters

23 Good Spirits by Libby Tucker

31 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

32 Books to Note

34 Play by John Thorn

41 Reading Culture by Tom van Buren

42 In Praise of Women: Janis Benincasa by Eileen Condon

23 Volume 33 Spring-Summer 2007

FEATURES

10 The Absentminded Professor: A Case Study of an Academic Legend Cycle by Michael Taft

16 Mind-Builders: Training Youth Interns as Beginning Folklorists by Deidre Lynn Hollman

25 Hoops, Hebrews, and the Hudson River League by John Thorn

32 Voices of Others: Personal Narratives in the Folklife Festival by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner

40 Peeling the Pop: Exploring a Tradition in Orkney by Michael A. Lange

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 Announcements

3 Creative Ethnography: Don’t Anyone Walk Around Barefoot: Life in a College Town’s Second- Run Theater by Meg Nicholas

8 Upstate: From Gypsy Lane to Tupper Road to State Highway 310 by Varick A. Chittenden

9 Downstate: Urbanitas by Steve Zeitlin

14 Creative Writing: A Recipe from Grandmother’s Diary by Edward DeZurko

14 Letter to the Editor

15 E-Resources: More Than Just Text for Free by Kathleen Condon

30 Good Spirits: Ghosts That Refuse to Go Away by Libby Tucker

31 Foodways: Nick Tahou’s Garbage Plate by Lynn Case Ekfelt

37 Artist Profile: Alberta Nell Romano: The Story of My Dolls

38 In Praise of Women: Vaughn Ramsey Ward (1939-2001) by Eileen Condon

39 Play: Bruegel and Me by John Thorn

46 Reading Culture: The Press and Folk Arts by Tom van Buren

47 Books to Note

24 Volume 32 Fall-Winter 2006

FEATURES

3 Report from the Field: A Dialogue on Immigrant and Refugee Issues by Laura R. Marcus and William Westerman. Introduction by Eileen Condon.

16 Dance and Diaspora in Brooklyn by Kay Turner and Nicole Macotsis

20 The Narrow Escape: The Facts of My Life by Gabriel Bol Deng

26 The Don Dance: An Expression of Karen Nationalism by Heather MacLachlan

35 Calico Indians: Festive Play in Acts of Resistance by Roger Abrahams

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 Announcements

15 E-Resources by Kathleen Condon

18 Upstate by Varick A. Chittenden

19 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

25 Reading Culture by Tom van Buren

33 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

34 Play by John Thorn

42 Good Spirits by Libby Tucker

43 Books to Note

25 Volume 32 Spring-Summer 2006

FEATURES

3 Piecing Together a Community: A Late Nineteenth-Century Friendship Quilt from Peterboro, New York by Shirley Morgan

12 Folklore E-Resources for All? Why Public Access Matters by Kathleen Condon

19 In the Midst of a Monastery: Filming the Making of a Buddhist Sand Mandala by Puja Sahney

24 A Grandmother’s Legacy by Virginia M. Scida

28 Immigrant Arts in Collaboration: Current Community Cultural Initiatives by Emily Socolov and Gabrielle M. Hamilton Introduction by Tom van Buren

34 Legend Quests by Libby Tucker

39 The Family Pond by John G. Hait

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 Announcements

10 Upstate by Varick A. Chittenden

11 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

17 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

18 Bookshelf Essentials by Tom van Buren

27 Good Spirits by Libby Tucker

33 Obituary: Helen Schneyer

38 New York Folklore Society News

42 Play by John Thorn

43 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

45 Book Reviews

47 Creative Nonfiction

26 Volume 31 Fall-Winter 2005

FEATURES

3 Knitting It Together: A Case Study of a Sweater by Jill Breit

12 A Method to Our Madness by Miriam L. Wallach

14 The Underground Seen: Tunneling Legends on College and University Campuses by Vince DeFruscio and Charlie McCormick

20 Tyke’s Ice Fishing Contest by Ruby Marcotte

23 “Thinking Culturally: An Insider’s Perspective”: A Panel from the New York Folklore Society’s Writing Folklore Conference

28 An Accordion Story: Following the Trail of Roxy and Nellie Caccamise by Christine F. Zinni

38 Murder and Mayhem, Tra-La! The Saugerties Bard by John Thorn

44 Poet Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman Receives National Heritage Award by Ethel Raim

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 New York Folklore Society News

10 Upstate by Varick A. Chittenden

11 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

22 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

27 Bookshelf Essentials by Tom van Buren

35 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

36 Obituary: Ken Lowe

45 Book Reviews

27 Volume 31 Spring-Summer 2005

FEATURES

5 The Broom Closet by Andrea Dolloff, Introduction by Steve Zeitlin, and Photographs by Martha Cooper

10 Spectral Indians, Desecrated Burial Grounds by Libby Tucker

14 Legends, High School History Classes, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Sandra K. Dolby

20 Born to Giglio by Stephanie Trudeau

22 Flyin’ High: Kite Flying from the Silk Road to Roosevelt Avenue by Elena Martínez and Photographs by Martha Cooper

28 On the Trail of the Ugly Dog by Stanley A. Ransom

32 Employing Music in the Cause of Social Justice: Ruth Crawford Seeger and Zilphia Horton by Julia Schmidt-Pirro and Karen M. McCurdy

38 The Seabrook Education and Cultural Center: Telling the Story of a Japanese American Community in Southern New Jersey by Jack Shortlidge

46 Recollections of Collecting by James Spears

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 Field Notes: The New York Chinatown Senior Center by Meng Yu

4 New York Folklore Society News

8 Upstate: "You know you’re from upstate New York if..." by Varick A. Chittenden

9 Downstate: Chess Havens by Steve Zeitlin

19 Foodways: The Cheese Stands Alone by Lynn Case Ekfelt

31 Eye of the Camera: Beware Variable Aperture by Martha Cooper

37 Lawyer’s Sidebar: Roll Over, Woody Guthrie by Paul Rapp

43 Library Essentials: Reading the Global Context of Immigrant Folklore by Tom van Buren

44 Book Reviews

28 47 Obituary: Alf Evers

48 Announcements

29 Volume 30 Fall-Winter 2004

FEATURES

6 The Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project by Lydia Fish

8 War Stories: Vietnam Experiences Retold in Plastic, Dirt, and Paint by Varick Chittenden and Photographs by Martha Cooper

12 Validating the Vets: A Legacy of Experience and Service by Mary Zwolinski

14 Telling War Stories in Chemung County by Heather A. Wade

18 Everyday History Saved on Tape by Gregory M. Lamb

22 The Survival of Blackface Minstrel Shows in the Adirondack Foothills by Susan Hurley-Glowa

29 Infused with Spirit: National Heritage Fellow Chuck Campbell by Robert Stone

32 Catskill Folk Festivals: A Sense of the Dance of Life by Karyl Denison Eaglefeathers

36 "We Never Will Forget": Disaster in American Folksong from the Nineteenth Century to September 11, 2001 by Revell Carr

42 Burning Messages: Interpreting African American Fraternity Brands and Their Bearers by Sandra Mizumoto Posey

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 Field Notes

4 Upstate by Varick A. Chittenden

5 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

21 Lawyer's Sidebar by Paul Rapp

28 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

31 Library Essentials by Tom van Buren

35 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

46 Media Bites by Jeff Bradbury

47 Book Reviews

30 Volume 30 Spring-Summer 2004

FEATURES

6 Local Culture in the Global City: The Folklife of New York by Nancy Groce

14 The Black Madonna of East Thirteenth Street by Joseph Sciorra

18 Recognizing the "Cycles of Violence": Narrative Prototype as a Folk Story by Elaine J. Lawless

25 Cultivating Courage Through Play by Brian Sutton-Smith

29 Games Children Play(ed) by Stanley Ransom

36 Sirens of the Southern Tier by Libby Tucker

42 Political Resistance in Hungarian Dress by Eniko Farkas

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 New York Folklore Society News

3 Field Notes by Nancy Solomon

4 Upstate by Varick Chittenden

5 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

13 Media Bites by Jeff Bradbury

23 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

24 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

41 Archival Questions by Nancy Johnson

45 Lawyer’s Sidebar by Paul Rapp

46 Book Reviews

31 Volume 29 Fall-Winter 2003

FEATURES

6 Alan Lomax by Ray Allen and Ronald Cohen

11 Scientists as Storytellers by Steve Zeitlin

14 Helen Hartness Flanders: The Green Mountain Songcatcher by Nancy-Jean Ballard Seigel

22 Sacramental Artwork in American Churches: A Disappearing Heritage by Marek Czarnecki

30 Happy Birthday, Willy B! by Kay Turner with Kathleen Condon

34 Folklore in Archives: How the Norman Studer Papers Came to the University at Albany by Amy C. Schindler

40 The Queen of Mundillo: Rosa Elena Egipciaco by Elena Martínez

44 The Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Archive of Traditional Irish Music by Ted McGraw

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 New York Folklore Society News

4 Upstate by Varick Chittenden

5 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

13 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

21 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

29 Lawyer’s Sidebar by Paul Rapp

43 Archival Questions by Nancy Johnson

46 Book Reviews

32 Volume 29 Spring-Summer 2003

FEATURES

7 An Ethnography of the Saratoga Racetrack by Ellen McHale

12 The Making of an Exhibition by Amy Godine

22 Zillah by Thea Kluge

24 Old-Time Dance Music in Western New York by James Kimball

34 Cities within the City: B.A. Botkin’s New York by Michael L. Murray

39 Ruby Marcotte Remembers

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

2 New York Folklore Society News

4 Upstate by Varick Chittenden

5 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

20 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

21 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

32 On Air

33 Lawyer’s Sidebar by Paul Rapp

41 Archival Questions by Nancy Johnson

42 Obituaries

43 Announcements

33 Volume 28 Fall-Winter 2002

FEATURES

4 Music and Art to Remember: The 2002 American Folklore Society Conference Photographs by Martha Cooper

10 Pinto Güira and His Magic Bullet: A Dominican Instrument Maker in Corona, Queens by Sydney Hutchinson

18 Salute to North Country Legends: Ten Years of TAUNY’s Heritage Awards by Jill Breit

26 Sacred Steel and the Empire State by Robert L. Stone

32 Emerging Traditions: Dance Performances of the Sudanese DiDinga in Syracuse by Felicia Faye McMahon

38 Celebrating Catskill Mountain Women: Family Stories, Community History by Melissa Ladenheim

43 Alan Lomax, 1915–2002

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

3 New York Folklore Society News

8 Upstate by Varick Chittenden

9 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

16 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

17 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

24 On Air: An interview with Francisca "Panchita" Davila conducted by Ladan Alomar and Mary Zwolinski

37 Archival Questions by Nancy Johnson

44 Lawyer’s Sidebar by Paul Rapp

45 Book Reviews

48 Announcements

34 Volume 28 Spring-Summer 2002

FEATURES

6 Camp Woodland by Dale W. Johnson

14 The Alley: A Back Street History by Theodore Corbett

19 Alley Cats by Mick Green

21 The Great Document Exchange by Carol Kammen

24 Picturing the Grange: 130 Years by Andrew Baugnet

29 Exhibit Review: The Great Migration by Nancy Solomon

30 The American Play-Party in Context by Nancy Cassell McEntire

35 Vaughn Ward: A Tribute

36 Introduction to The Witch of Mad Dog Hill by Vaughn Ward

39 Stacked Enchiladas and Pizza Pie by Vaughn Ward

44 Transition: Hanna Griff by Mary Zwolinski

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

3 New York Folklore Society News

4 Upstate by Varick Chittenden

5 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

13 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

22 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

28 On Air by James Moreira

34 Lawyer’s Sidebar by Paul Rapp

41 Archival Questions by Nancy Johnson

43 Media Works by Barry Dornfeld

45 Book Reviews

47 Announcements

35 Volume 27 Fall-Winter 2001

FEATURES

8 Hallowed Ground Photographs by Martha Cooper

10 Benjamin Botkin by Michael L. Murray

11 Growing Up in Folklore: A Conversation with Ben Botkin’s Children, Dorothy Rosenthal and Daniel Botkin

16 Two Classic Articles by B. A. Botkin: "We Called It 'Living Lore'" and "The Spiels of New York"

22 Teaming Up with Oxen: A Farm Tradition by Kathleen E. Suits-Smith

26 The Lisanti Family Chapel in Williamsbridge, the Bronx by Joseph Sciorra

33 A Bridge in Binghamton: A Community Museum Reaches Out to Schools and Families by Merrill Douglas

36 Growing Up in the City Short stories by Barbara Rothman and Laura Silver

39 Wooden Whimsy: Gary Rathbone by Mary Zwolinski

41 Passing Tradition to the Young: Norma "Granny" Sweet and Alice Colvin Clemens

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

3 New York Folklore Society News

6 Upstate by Varick Chittenden

7 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin and Ilana Harlow

21 Media Works by Barry Dornfeld

24 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

25 Foodways by Lynn Case Ekfelt

31 On Air by Varick A. Chittenden and Lamar Bliss

40 Lawyer’s Sidebar by Paul Rapp

43 Archival Questions by Nancy Johnson

44 Book Reviews

46 Announcements

36 Volume 27 Spring-Summer 2001

FEATURES

6 New York on the National Mall: Folklorists Interpret the City for the Smithsonian by Cathy Ragland

10 Poaching! Ethics in Folklore by Amy Godine

14 The Polish American Lullaby: A Case Study by Maryann McCabe

22 In 2/4 Time: The Polka and the Accordion in North America by Mark Kohan

28 Stand Clear of the Closing Doors! by Ryn Gargulinski

32 Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life by Lynne Williamson

34 The Magic of Pirate Gold: A New York Merchant and Captain Kyd’s Treasure by Robert A. Emery

37 Ike the Pike by Shirlee Kresh Hecker

39 The Tale of a Trail: Material Culture Along Ridge Road by Allen G. Noble

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

3 New York Folklore Society News

4 Upstate by Varick Chittenden

5 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

12 Media Works by Barry Dornfeld

20 On Air by Kate Koperski

24 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

26 Lawyer's Sidebar by Paul C. Rapp

27 Archival Questions by Nancy Johnson

43 Book Reviews

45 Announcements

37 Volume 26 Fall-Winter 2000

FEATURES

8 Mediating between Two Worlds: The Sonideros of Mexican Youth Dances by Cathy Ragland

18 The Farmhouse as Boarding House: Sharing Values and Sharing Space in the Catskills by Virginia Scheer

24 "Chawing Chewing Gum" by Stanley A. Ransom

28 A Body of Art: Beautiful Brides in India by Pravina Shukla

37 I Do? Northern New York’s Mock Weddings by Brenda Verardi

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

3 New York Folklore Society News

6 Downstate by Steve Zeitlin

15 Media Works by Barry Dornfeld

16 Eye of the Camera by Martha Cooper

27 Lawyer's Sidebar by Paul C. Rapp

34 On Air by Dale W. Johnson

36 Archival Questions by Karen Taussig-Lux

43 Book Reviews

45 Announcements

47 Obituary Clarence "Daddy Dick" Richards by Vaughn Ward

38 New York Folklore (1975-1999)

39 Volume 25, Nos. 1-4, 1999

vii Introduction: Empire State of Change and Continuity by Robert Baron

Articles

1 Thoughts on the Role of Folk Arts in the Ecology of Culture by John W. Suter

17 Welcome to Your Second Home by Ray Allen, Joseph Sciorra and Steve Zeitlin

25 Cherish the Ladies by Mick Moloney

43 Splendid Companionship and Practical Assistance by Joyce Ice

53 Local and Personal: An Introduction To Farm Stands by Janis Benincasa, Ned Pratt and Ellen McHale

59 Between the Branches by Doug DeNatale

73 You Hear the Ice Talking by Shelly Posen

91 Roger Kelly: Reminiscing On Old Time Music by James Kimball

101 Liner notes for “Chesta E La Voci Ca Canuscite” – “This is the Voice You Know”: Southern Italian Mountain Music from Calabria, Campania, Basilicata and Abruzzo. Global Village C675 by Anna L. Chairetakis

113 Ritual Renewal: Polish-American Easter Traditions by Kate Koperski

123 Particles of the Past Sandmining on Long Island 1870’s’1980’s by Elly Shodell

135 Wit, Work, and Wisdom: Traditional Artistry at Sagamore by Karen Taussig-Lux

40 Volume 24, Nos. 1-4, 1998

Articles

1 The Role of Nossa Senhora Aparecida Festival in Creating Brazilian-American Community by Adam Arenson

31 Interpretation: Why? How? By Whom? Transcript from the 1995 Folk Arts Roundtable Panel by Daniel Franklin Ward, ed.

77 Representations of Racial Identity in a Contemporary Pinkster Celebration by Linda Pershing

Folklore Notes

97 "That Farm Was Her Heart and Soul" by Felicia McMahon

107 Unraveling the History and Meaning of the Term 'Folknik' by Michael Stone

113 An Undergraduate Ghost Rumor by Robert A. Emery

Obituaries

115 Bruce Buckley and Roderick Roberts

Book Reviews

117 Devine, comp., Devine’s Folk Lore of Newfoundland in Old Words, Phrases, and Expressions their Origin and Meaning by W. K. McNeil

118 Cruikshank, The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Rebecca Maksel

120 Thompson, A Folklorist’s Progress: Reflections of a Scholar’s Life by Bill Stanford Pincheon

122 Owomoyela, Yoruba Trickster Tales by Katherine M. Spiritos

123 Mieder and Bryan, comps., Proverbs in World Literature: A Bibliography by Bill Nicholaisen

41 Volume 23, Nos. 1-4, 1997

Articles

1 Just Like a Ghost: A Reflexive Analysis of Three Spiritualist Belief Narratives by Jennifer E. Porter

25 Dyngus Days and Koledy Nights: Folk Celebrations in Polish-American Communities by Deborah Anders Silverman

39 Golem as Gentile, Golem as Sabra: An Analysis of the Manipulation of Stereotypes of Self and Other in Literary Treatments of a Legendary Jewish Figure by Danusha Goska

65 The New Age: Where Folklore and Cultural Studies Meet Retail and Belief by Bruce Lionel Mason and Eileen Mary Condon

Book Reviews

89 Croy, Jesses James Was My Neighbor by W. K. McNeil

91 Fisher, The Emergence of Standard English by W. K. McNeil

93 Judson, Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest by W. K. McNeil

95 Kingsbury, Kingsbury, and Mieder, Weather Wisdom: Proverbs, Superstitions and Signs by Laura J. Bobrow

96 Manuel, Bilby, and Larghey, Caribbean Currrents: From Rumba to Reggae by Paul Austerlitz

99 Zipes, Fairy Tale as Myth—Myth as Fairy Tale by W. F. H. Nicolaisen

42 Volume 22, Nos. 1-4, 1996

Articles

1 "From New York City down to the Gulf of Mexico": Highway 61 in African-American Blues, Bob Dylan Songs, and Canadian Film by Peter Narváez

37 Knowing the Score: The Transmission of Musician Jokes among Professional and Semi- Professional Musicians by Nancy Groce

49 Lithuanian Landscapes in America: Houses, Yards, and Gardens in Scranton, Pennsylvania by Gerald L. Pocius

89 Parallax: History and Moral Truth by John Carter

103 Negotiating Equitable Intervention: Marketing vs. Human Relations Theory by A. H. Walle

Book Reviews

115 Cooper and Sciorra, R.I.P.: Memorial Wall Art by W. K. McNeil

117 Del Guidice, ed., Studies in Italian American Folklore by Nancy Piatkowski

119 Finnegan and Orbell, eds., South Pacific Oral Traditions by Mary Arnold Twining

121 Georges and Jones, Folkloristics: An Introduction by Diane Tye

123 McKay, The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by W. K. McNeil

125 O’Leary, The Tancook Schooners: An Island and Its Boats by Michael J. Chiarappa

127 Zipes, Creative Storytelling: Building Community, Changing Lives by Sharon Humphries-Brooks

43 Volume 21, Nos. 1-4, 1995

Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary Fall Conference

Keynote Addresses

1 Taking a Breath by Bess Lomax Hawes

13 “It Ought to Be Returned to Them....It Needed to Be Spread Around”: Reflections on Public Folklore Then and Now by Robert Baron

Panel

39 Who Inherits the Tradition? by Robert Bethke, Colleen Cleveland, Nina Jaffe, Tom Porter, Vaughn Ward

Folklore in Theory

75 "A Yorker by Choice, A Folklorist by Persuasion": B. A. Botkin, Public (Folklore) Intellectual by Jerrold Hirsch

103 Making Folklife Theory Public by Debora Kodish

113 History and Regionalism in the Work of John Mason Brewer by John W. Roberts

127 Folklore in Action Research and Restore: Two Goals, One Society by Bruce Buckley

137 Folklore in New York State: The NYSCA Era by Karen Taussig-Lux and Jessica M. Payne

Photograph Album

151 Photos by Nicole Keys

155 Voices of Tradition by Elsie Edith Cutting Joyce Ice

161 Interview with Edith Cutting by Melissa Ladenheim

Book Reviews

193 Beck, ed., Vermont Recollections: Sifting Memories Through the Interview Process; Ives, The Tape- Recorded Interview: A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History by Diane Tye

195 Greenhill, Ethnicity in the Mainstream: Three Studies of English Canadian Culture in Ontario by Peter Narváez

197 Wright, Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Bluegrass Music by Jack Shortlidge

44 Volume 20, Nos. 3-4, 1994

Articles

1 Calico Indians and Pistol Pills: Traditional Drama, Historical Symbols, and Political Actions in Upstate New York by Rachelle H. Saltzman

19 “We’re not here just to plant. We have a culture.” An Ethnography of the South Bronx Casita Rincón Criollo by Joseph Sciorra and Martha Cooper

43 Coffee Farmers and the Politics of Representation: What’s in a Good Cup of Coffee? by Olivia Cadaval

55 Kateri Tekakwitha: Gender and Ethnic Symbolism in the Process of Making an American Saint by Susan R. Dauria

Folklore Note

75 Miniature Marimbas: Migrant Workers’ Memories of Home by Jayne Howell

Book Reviews

83 Henderson, ed. and trans., The Maiden Who Rose from the Sea and Other Finnish Folktales; Sherman, Rachel the Clever and Other Jewish Folktales by Bob DeVino

85 Jones, ed., Putting Folklore to Use by Deborah Blincoe

89 Lawless, Holy Women, Wholly Women: Sharing Ministries through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography by Jody Shapiro Davie

91 McCarthy, ed., Jack in Two Worlds by Robert M. Rennick

95 Nelson, ed., Material Culture and People’s Art Among the Norwegians in America by Philip Nusbaum

98 Rosenburg, ed., Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined by Nancy Groce

Video Review

100 Ochs, dir., Micho Russell: Ireland’s Whistling Ambassador by Nancy Groce

45 Volume 20, Nos. 1-2, 1994

V Editors’ Foreword

Articles

1 Out of the Abstract: The Development of the Study of Irish Folklife by Linda M. Ballard

15 Jocular Conversation and Conversational Joke Telling: A Case Study by Philip Nusbaum

Photo Essay

39 Making and Baking Bagels at Turnpike Bagels, circa 1972 by Harvey Nusbaum and Philip Nusbaum

Folklore Note

47 A History of West Indian Carnival in New York City to 1978 by Donald R. Hill

Voice of Tradition

67 Allen Walton of Essex County, An Adirondack Knight of the Road by Amy Godine

Reviews

95 Allen, Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City by Timothy J. Cooley

97 Boyes, The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology and the English Folk Revival by Peter Narváez

105 Frisch, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History by Betty J. Belanus

107 Harrison-Pepper, Drawing a Circle in the Square: Street Performing in New York’s Washington Square Park by Stephen Mamula

109 Ives, George Magoon and the Down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law by Melissa Ladenheim

111 Keil and Keil, Polka Happiness by Timothy J. Cooley

46 113 Magliocco, The Two Madonnas: The Politics of Two Festivals in a Sardinian Community by Nancy M. Piatkowski

115 Norkunas, Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History and Ethnicity in Monterey, California by Eleanor Wachs

118 Waits, The Modern Christmas in America: A Cultural History of Gift Giving by Nancy M. Piatkowski

119 Zumwalt, Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parson, Anthropologist and Folkorist by Dayna Bowker Lee

123 Editorial Policy

47 Volume 19, Nos. 3-4, 1993

Articles

1 Hooked on Carving: Ice Fishing Decoy Carving in Michigan by C. Kurt Dewhurst

19 Spear Fishing and Spear Fishing Decoy Collecting: Connected Yet Separate Existential Worlds by Philip Nusbaum

43 Alex Maulson, Winter Spearer by James P. Leary

59 Regional Sports: "Playing" with Politics in the Adirondacks by Felicia Faye McMahon

75 A Place Called Gahaine: The Haunted Hill in Contemporary Seneca Story by Stephen C. Wehmeyer

87 Reconsidering Rollerskating: The Body Moving between Play and Performance by Justine McGov- ern

Folklore Notes

99 Communication Regarding the Identity of the Leatherman by A. W. Sadler

103 Was Susan Fenimore Cooper a Revenant? by Robert A. Emery

Reviews

107 Baron and Spitzer, eds., Public Folklore by Nancy Groce

109 Chairetakis and Sciorra, Malidittu la Lingua/Damned Language: Vincenzo Ancona, Poetry and Miniatures by Steve Siporin

111 Cohen, The Dutch-American Farm by Simon J. Bronner

114 Harvey, Contemporary Irish Traditional Narrative: The English Language Tradition and Sexton, Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala by Rachelle H. Saltzman

120 Johnstone, Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America by Philip Nusbaum

121 Lawson, The Rules of Speed Chess by Nancy Groce

122 Mieder, Kingsbury, Harder, eds., A Dictionary of American Proverbs by W. F. H. Nicolaisen

125 Stahl, Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative by Stephen W. Keller

127 Schoolcraft, Algic Researches: Indian Tales and Legends, Volumes I & II by Harold Kugelmass

129 Tomlan, Tinged with Gold: Hop Culture in the United States by Yvonne R. Lockwood

131 Whittier, Legends of New England by Peter Voorheis

48 Volume 19, Nos. 1-2, 1993

Prejudice and Pride: Lesbian and Gay Traditions in America

Editorial Essay

1 The Dangers of Authenticity by Deborah Blincoe and John Forrest

Introduction

15 Coming Out, Coming Home: Reclaiming a Place to Belong by Joseph P. Goodwin

Articles

27 Hothead Paisan: Clearing a Space for a Lesbian Feminist Folklore by Dana A. Heller

45 Gay Men’s English: Cooperative Discourse in a Language of Risk by William Leap

71 Something to Remember Me By: Maupin’s Tales of the City Novels as Artifacts in Contemporary Gay Folk Culture by Jimmy D. Browning

89 "I Would Rather Be Fixated on the Lord": Women’s Religion, Men’s Power, and the "Dignity" Problem by Leonard Norman Primiano

105 Body Rhetoric: A Study in Lesbian Coding by Jan Laude

121 Untitled: Opus 7 (This is Folklore) or Purity and Danger: An Interpretation by Charles Bergen- gren

Voice of Tradition

155 Two Spirited People: Understanding Who We Are as Creation by Curtis Harris and Leota Lone Dog

165 Lesbian Folklore: A New Day Coming by Jan Phillips

181 Lesbian Code: Dyke Spotting in Heteropatriarchyland by Alix Dobkin

185 Who’s No Lady? Excerpts from an Oral History of New York City’s 82 Club by Joe E. Jeffreys

203 "Looking for Some Sort of Love": The Sexual Life History of a Gay Man by Michael Avrut

217 Folklore Notes Exploring Frontiers: An American Tradition by W. Dorr Legg

49 237 Rewriting Tradition: The Queer Politics of a Lesbian Folklorist by Kay Turner

50 Volume 18, Nos. 1-4, 1992

Through African-Centered Prisms

1 Introduction by John W. Roberts

Part I: Re-Visioning African-American Culture

11 On Modernity, Theory, and Practice in the African-American Tradition by Frank M. Kirkland

53 Negritude in Music Revisited: Old Wine or New Bottles? by Christopher Brooks

73 African-American Folklore in a Discourse of Folkness by John W. Roberts

Part II: Researching African-American Culture: Issues of Authority

91 Thomas Washington Talley: Early Twentieth-Century African-American Folklore Theorist by Gerald L. Davis

103 An Early Model for the Study of African-American Folklore: Carter G. Woodson and the Jour- nal of Negro History by Cassandra A. Stancil

119 Journeys to African-American Art: Issues in Contemporary Exhibition by Gladys-Marie Fry

133 On Cultural Vaccination and the Twenty-First Century by Joan Maynard

Part III: Emergent Discourses: Issues of Representation

147 “Some Hard Usage”: The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 by Thelma Willis Foote

161 Men Have the Church, Us Women Have the Conference: Decreasing Sexist and Assimilationist Policies in the Church by Nancy J. Fairley

179 Voices of Tradition and Promise: African-American Gospel Women Musicians by Barbara L. Hampton

205 African-American Folklore and Cultural History in the Films of Spike Lee by Gloria J. Gib- son-Hudson

219 Kente Cloth: A Ghanaian Tradition in the United States by Marilyn M. White

227 Erasure of the DJ: Hip Hop Music and Popular Music Criticism by Laura Johnson

51 245 Tell Them So You’ll Know by Estella Conwill Majozo

Commentary

255 Chips Off the Old Block by William H. Wiggins, Jr.

263 Epilogue by Gerald L. Davis

NOTE: This issue is SOLD OUT. Individual articles may still be available.

52 Volume 17, Nos. 1-2, 1991

Articles

1 The Tohono O'odham Shrine Complex: Memorializing the Locations of Violent Death by David Kozak and Camillus Lopez

21 Night Train: The Power that Man Made by Ivor Miller

45 Traditionalizing Experience: The Case of the Vietnam Veterans by Philip Nusbaum

63 Laughs on the Links: A Study of Golf Jokes by Nancy A. Novotny

Voices of Tradition

83 Behind the Scenes: Three Egyptian Women Immigrants Reveal Their Stories by Enas I. Abdallah

91 The Knitted World Order by Alyssa Foos. Photographs by John Forrest

97 The Lay of the Land: A Memory of a Southern Appalachian Farmstead by E. E. Mayo

Folklore Notes

99 Comparing Pre- and Post-Emigration Housing in Jefferson County, New York: Legends and Anec- dotes by Claire Bonney

121 The Supernatural in Sullivan County, New York: Legends and Anecdotes by LeeAnne Green

Review Essay

127 A Scuffle in the Folk Arts Turf Wars (review of Rose, Unexpected Eloquence: The Art in American Folk Art) by Charles Bergengren

Reviews

135 Van Maanen, Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Dorst)

137 Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (Foner)

139 Brehm, Sweetwater, Storms and Spirits: Stories of the Great Lakes (Ghezzi)

53 141 McGlathery, Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, and Perrault (Haring)

142 Porter, The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland: A Research and Information Guide (Russell)

145 Bin Gorion et al., Mimekor Yisrael: Selected Classical Jewish Folktales (Schlesinger)

54 Volume 16, Nos. 1-2, 1990

Editor’s Introduction

New York Folklore: Carrying the Tradition into the Nineties

Articles

1 Inside Millie’s Kitchen: Voices of the Adirondacks by Felicia McMahon

17 Winemaking and Personal Cosmology: A Pedmontese-American Example by William M. Clements

25 Pacts With the Devil: Stories told by an Indian Woman from Mexico by Judith Friedlander

Voices of Tradition

43 “Poor Child”: A Sculptale by Harry Eisner

53 “Once in Abaganaland”: A Folk Story by Michael C. Mbabuike

63 Obituary: Royston Wood (1935–1990) by Heather Wood

Reviews

65 Kvideland and Sehmsdorf, Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend (Nicolaisen)

67 Davidson, The Seer in Celtic Traditions (Hall)

68 Brown, Burns and Tradition (Buchan)

70 Lux, Folk Arts Programming in New York State: A Handbook and Resource Guide (Burlakoff)

55 Volume 15, Nos. 3-4, 1989

iii Editor’s Preface by Deborah Blincoe and John Forrest

1 Forty Years Before the Mast: Sailing the Stormy and Serene Seas of Public Folklife by Bruce R. Buckley

17 A Story Worth Telling: Publishing in the Public Sector by Ellen McHale

23 Folk Arts on the Radio: Issues in the Production of "Old Traditions—New Sounds" by Rebecca S. Miller

33 The Making of "God’s Mother is the Morning Star": A Case Study in Videotaping an Elderly Folk Artist by Karen D. Lux

47 Trouble Shooting: Overcoming Problems of Collaboration in Film Production by Peter Biella

69 Fieldwork Among White Russian Emigres: Some Conceptual Considerations by Peter Voorheis

75 Adirondack Balsam Pillows: Folk Art, Tourist Art, or Subsistence by Todd DeGarmo

91 The Government Giveth and the Government Taketh Away: Helping or Hindering Community Traditions? by Varick A. Chittenden

107 A Discussion: Community Cultural Empowerment by Daniel Franklin Ward, Miriam Graham, eds.

56 Volume 15, Nos. 1-2, 1989

Editorial Essay

1 Satanism: Where Are The Folklorists? By Phillips Stevens, Jr.

Articles

23 A Rumor-Panic about a Dangerous Satanic Cult in Western New York by Jeffrey S. Victor

51 The Mother-Daughter Dialogue in the Yiddish Folk Song: Wandering Motifs in Time and Space by Robert A. Rothstein

Folklore Notes

67 Axel Gustafson (1867–1945): Folk Sculptor of Franklinville, New York by Suzanne and James Hofmeister

83 Eastern European Motifs in the Work of Three Women Folk Artists by Mary B. Kelly

99 The Ghost of Old Fort Niagara by Brian Leigh Dunnigan

105 Alvin Bronson’s Rocking Chair by Alice K. Askins

111 Fragments of 19th Century Folk Belief in New York Court Reports Robert A. Emery

119 The American Who Fought on the Other Side Christopher J. Feola

Review Essay

121 Women, Folklore, Feminism, and Culture by Joyce Ice

Reviews

139 Bronner, American Folklore Studies: An Intellectual History (Nicolaisen)

142 Zumwalt, American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent (Nicolaisen)

145 Currey, Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American (Fish)

57 147 Johnson, ed., Cadences: The Jody Call Book, Nos. 1 and 2 (Burke)

149 Wachs, Crime Victim Stories: New York City’s Urban Folklore (Grider)

150 Krause, ed., The Ties that Bind: Folk Art in Contemporary American Culture (Kerman)

152 Koperski, The Iconography of Rebirth: Aspects of the Polish-American Easter Celebration, and Ritual Renewal: Polish-American Easter Traditions (Fish)

153 Hillerman, A Thief of Time (Engelbrecht)

58 Volume 14, Nos. 3-4, 1988

Folk and Traditional Music in New York State

Guest Editors: Ray Allen and Nancy Groce

1 Introduction: Folk and Traditional Music in New York State by Ray Allen and Nancy Groce

7 African-American Sacred Quartet Singing in New York City by Ray Allen

23 The Anglo-American Fiddle Tradition in New York State by Simon Bronner

37 Survival of Greek Folk Music in New York by Sotirios (Sam) Chianis

49 Writing While They’re Singing: A Conversation about Longhouse Social Dance Songs by Michael Sam Cronk

61 Traditional Japanese Music in New York State by Linda Fujie

71 Country Dancing in Central and Western New York State James Kimball

89 Music in New York City’s Chinese Community by Audrey R. Mazur

101 “Our Own Little Isle”: Irish Traditional Music in New York by Rebecca S. Miller

117 From Eastern Europe to East Broadway: Yiddish Music in Old World and New by Henry Sapoznik

129 Italian Music in New York by Michael Schlesinger

139 Puerto Rican Music in New York City by Roberta Singer

151 "Rock the House:" The Aesthetic Dimensions of Rap Music in New York City by Madeline Slovenz

165 Anglo-American Folksong Collecting and Singing Traditions in Rural New York by Vaughn Ramsey Ward

179 Haiti Chérie: Journey of an Immigrant Music in New York City by Lois E. Wilcken

59 Volume 14, Nos. 1-2, 1988

Folklore in Industry

1 Introduction by the Guest Editor, Mia Boynton

9 Songs of Work and Songs of Worship: Sanctifying Black Unionism in the Southern City of Steel by Brenda McCallum

35 Accident Narratives: Self Protection in the Workplace by Robert McCall

45 Research as an Experiment in Equality by Sandro Portelli

59 The Humor of a Tradition Bearer in the Lumber Yard by Amy F. Skillman

73 Mary Daniels: A Portrait in Steel by Michael Frisch

87 A Woman in a Men’s Sphere: Testimonies from a Woman Steelworker at Buffalo’s Republic Steel by Mia Boynton

100 Afterword by Eileen Basinski

103 Occupational Folklore: Overview and Afterword by Jack Santino

Articles

107 Anthropomorphism in Animal Encyclopedias of 19th Century America by Boria Sax

Folklore Notes

123 The Ballad of Marcus Lyon: The Story Lives On by Melvin G. Williams

133 Emerging Folklore About Acid Rain in the Adirondacks by David S. Turkon

143 Military Folklore: Additional References by Les Cleveland

Reviews

Books:

147 Ward, ed., Personal Places: Perspectives on Informal Art Environments (Benincasa)

149 Dell and Vlach, eds., Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture (Ward)

60 150 Bronner, Old Time Music Makers of New York State (Collins)

152 Griffith, Celebrating a Heritage, and Respect and Community: The Arts of Death in a Border Community (Fish)

Recordings:

153 Lebentritt and Pearlman, New York City Lullabies (Tucker)

154 Lutz, Up Agin the Mountain: Traditional Ballads and Songs from the Eastern Ramapos (Groce)

61 Volume 13, Nos. 3-4, 1987

Folk Arts in Education

1 Introduction by the Guest Editor: Folk Arts-in-Education Programs in New York State by Kathleen Mundell

5 The Cultural Heritage Project: Presenting Traditional Arts in a Suburban Setting by Kathleen Mundell

17 Folk Arts in Newark Valley: An Upstate New York Arts-in-Education Program by Catherine Schwoeffermann

27 Folk Artists in Staten Island Schools: Developing a Workable Model for Larger Communities by Nancy Groce, with Janis Benincasa

39 The Rondout Valley Folklore Project, 1981-Present by Jane McClure

Articles

49 Romantic Ballads in North America by Edith Fowke

55 Who Was Isaac Orcutt? The History and Origin of an 18th Century New England Ballad by Melvin G. Williams

73 Leylines in Modern Britain: The Sacred Geography of a Pilgrimage Site as an Expression of Folk Protest by Jeffrey Mark Golliher

87 Military Folklore and the Underwood Collection by Les Cleveland

Folklore Notes

105 Rough Measure in Maritime Dialect Research by Lewis J. Poteet and Jacqueline Baum

Reviews: Books: McCarl, The District of Columbia Fire Fighters’ Project, and Abrahams, Goldstein, and Hands, eds.

113 By Land and By Sea: Studies in Folklore of Work and Leisure (Cleveland)

115 Patterson, Drawing and Gift Song. A Study of Two Forms of Shaker Inspiration (Wolford)

177 Mathias and Raspa, Italian Folktales in America: The Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman (Byrne- Severino)

62 118 Jackson, Fieldwork (Fish)

121 Correspondence and Commentary

124 Contributors to this Issue

125 Editor’s Year-End Report

63 Volume 13, Nos. 1-2, 1987:

The New Nomads: Art, Life, and Lore of Migrant Workers in New York State

1 Preface: The New Nomads by Mary Arnold Twining

7 Introduction: The BOCES-Geneseo Migrant Center: History and Development by Gloria Mattera

29 The Migrant Heritage Studies Kit: A Teaching Tool by Robert E. Lynch

49 The Flower in the Boat: Folk Art of the Migrant Workers of Mid-New York State by Mary Arnold Twining

59 Migrant Art: From Field to Gallery by Sylvia Kelly

79 The Expressive Culture of Migrant Farmworkers: Theme and Constraint in Contemporary Perfor- mance by Sue Roark-Calnek

107 Making it to the Center: Migration and Adaptation among Haitian Boat People by Rose-Marie Chierici

117 "No One Sees Me, No One Cares:" Migrant Workers Speak by Gloria Mattera, Robert Lynch, Sylvia Kelly

161 Through the Poet’s Eyes by Sylvia Kelly

Field Notes by Berrien Thorn 162

Reviews

Recent Books on Folk Art: DeNatale, Between the Branches: Folk Art of Delaware

64 Volume 12, Nos. 3-4, 1986

1 Lore for the Folk: Benjamin A. Botkin and the Development of Folklore Scholarship in America by Ronna Lee Widner

23 Ben Botkin by Bruce Jackson

33 “Your Hair Is Your Glory”: Public and Private Symbology of Long Hair for Pentecostal Women by Elaine J. Lawless

51 Growing Up Catholic and American: The Oral Tradition of Catholic School Students by Louise Krasniewicz

69 Storytelling and Conservation: Stuctural Relationships by Philip Nusbaum

87 The Ethnic Joke as Mirror of Culture by William M. Clements

99 Red Jacket’s Reply: A Problem in the Verification of a Native American Speech Text by Harry Robie

Folklore Notes

119 Protestant Home Shrines: Icon and Image by Yvonne J. Milspaw

137 Imagining Evil in Polish-American Culture by Katherine J. Koperski

143 Folk Remedies for the Common Cold by Leonard R. N. Ashley

147 Home Remedies by Martha Muzzy

119 Shooting in the New Year: An Early American Instance by Martin W. Walsh

Reviews

Books:

157 Jackson, ed., Teaching Folklore (Vlach)

159 Cazden, Haufrecht, Studer, eds., Folk Songs of the Catskills, and Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills (Groce)

162 Schwoefermann, Threaded Memories: A Family Quilt Collection, and Folk Artists of the Southern Tier (Groce)

65 164 Schaeffer, Partridge, Adrosko, Made in New York State: Handwoven Coverlets, 1820-1860 (Rein- stein)

165 Todd, The "Sittin’ Stone:" Memories of a Chautauqua County Boyhood (Reinstein)

166 Hubka, Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New Eng- land (Vlach)

168 Cohen, The Folklore and Folklife of New Jersey (Samuelson)

170 Warner, Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection (Jones)

172 Brown and Mussell, Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity (Wachs)

175 Fowke and Carpenter, eds., Explorations in Canadian Folklore (Posen)

178 Recordings: Ward, "Oh, That Low Bridge:" Songs of the Erie Canal (Null)

181 Contributors to this Issue

183 Editor’s Year-End Report

187 Information for Contributors and Guide to Style

66 Volume 12, Nos. 1-2, 1986

Marketing Folk Art

1 Religious Symbols in Afro-American Folk Arts by Maude S. Wahlman

25 Marketing the Art of Migrant Laborers by Mary Arnold Twining

43 Special Section, "Marketing Folk Art" Introduction by the Guest Editor Rosemary O. Joyce

49 The Marketing of Objects in the Folk Art Style by C. Kurt Dewhurst and Marsha MacDowell

57 Traditions for Sale: Marketing Mechanisms for Baltimore's Screen Art, 1913-1983 by Elaine Eff

69 Who Will Market the Folk Arts? by Egle Victoria Zygas

75 “Crafts Assistance Programs" and Traditional Crafts by Robert T. Teske

85, 88 Commentary by Geraldine N. Johnson, John Michael Vlach

91 Mitigating Marketing: A Window of Opportunity for Applied Folklorists by Alf Walle

113 Review: Religious Folk Art in America (Dewhurst & MacDowell, Museum of American Folk Art) by Varick A. Chittenden

119 Contributors to this Issue

67 Volume 11, Nos. 1-4, 1985

40th Anniversary Issue

1 Reflections on Forty Years Editor’s Introduction

25 Early Days of the Folklore Renaissance in New York State by Louis C. Jones

37 Our Native Notions of Story by Roger D. Abrahams

49 Sex and Grammar Jokes by Jan Harold Brunvand

61 Performance Contexts in Historical Perspective by David Buchan

79 Soldiers’ Songs: The Folklore of the Powerless by Les Cleveland

99 “When I Was Six We Moved West:” The Theory of Personal Experience Narrative by Linda Degh

109 Catherine of Siena: Life, Death, and Miracles by Alessandro Falassi

135 Folklorists as Agents of Nationalism by James W. Fernandez

149 The Image of Gypsies in Hungarian Oral Literature by Veronika Görög-Karady

161 Remarkable Sight and Hearing in the Lying Contest Tale by Herbert Halpert

177 Reason, Rhetoric, and Religion: Academic Ideology versus Folk Belief by David J. Hufford

195 The Folksong Revival by Bruce Jackson

205 Masking in England by Venetia Newall

231 Rehearsing the Future in the Folktale by W. F. H. Nicolaisen

239 Contributors to this Issue

241 Officers of the New York Folklore Society, 1945-1985

243 Editor’s Year-End Report

68 Volume 10, Nos. 3-4, 1984

Folklore in Buffalo

1 Folklore, the Lifeblood of the City, Editor’s Introduction

7 Sounds of a City: Types and Characteristics of the Speech of Buffalo and Its Ethnic Groups by Wolf- gang Wölck

23 Father Baker: Legends of a Saint in Buffalo by Lydia Fish

35 'Elephant Joe' Josephs, A Folk Hero from Buffalo’s Past Marie Hewett

47 Elbert Hubbard, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the Commercialization of Folk Art by Alf Walle and M. L. Brimo

65 "Treating Men like Dirty Dogs" by James McDonnell

77 'The Apple Boy': Individual and Community in the Era of the Second World War by William Graeb- ner

89 The Myth of Persistence of Families ini The Orchard, an East Buffalo Neighborhood by Andrew Yox

105 Echoes from the South: African-American Quiltmakers in Buffalo by Mary Twining

117 The Dyna-Tones: A Buffalo Polka Bank in Performance, in Rehearsal, and on Record by Charles Keil

135 The Message of an Angel: Children’s Guardian Angel Stories in Buffalo’s Polonia by Katherine Koperski

145 Buffalo: The Inside Story by Linda Schneekloth and Margaret Wooster

165 Contributors to this Issue

166 Sponsors of this Issue

165 Editor’s Year-End Report

69 Volume 10, Nos. 1-2, 1984

Articles

5 Evaluating Psychoanalytic Folklore: Are Freudians Ever Right? by Gary Alan Fine

21 "The Palm at the End of the Mind," or Narrative Fortune Telling as Urban Folk Therapy by Brian Rusted

39 Becoming White: Notes on an Italian-American Explanation of Evil Eye by Michael Buonanno

55 Traits of the Female Hero: The Application of Raglan’s Concept of Hero Trait Patterning by Mary Ann Jezewski

Folklore Notes

75 Three Folktales of Early Lebanese Immigrants to New York State by Eugene Paul Nassar

83 Barnum’s Island, N.Y.: Fact or Fabrication? by Joann P. Krieg

89 Myth and the Principle of Predestination in Yoruba Folk Culture by Bade Ajuwon

Review Essay

99 Dorson’s Farewell by Bruce Jackson

Reviews

113 Norm Cohen, Long Steel Rail by Christopher A. LaLonde

116 Roger Abrahams, African Folktales by Lee Haring

119 David Tatham, Abraham Tuthill: Portrait Painter in the Young Republic by John Braunlein

121 Contributors to This Issue

122 Information for Contributors and Guide to Style

70 Volume 9, Nos. 3-4, 1983

Special Issue in Honor of Rossell Hope Robbins

1 Tribute to Rossell Hope Robbins by Allen Walker Reed

9 An Accessible Aesthetic: The Role of Folk Arts and the Folk Artist in the Curriculum by Barbara Kir- shenblatt-Gimblett

19 The Oldest Profession Scores Again: Storytelling in the Training of Social Workers by Lenora Greenbaum

27 John Allison: The Collector as Folk Artist by Susan Rhodes Slyman

37 Rethinking “Revival” of American Ethnic Music by Mark Slobin

45 Peace and the Potlatch: Warfare and Status Among the Kwakiutl by A. H. Walle

55 Snakelore Motifs in the Writing of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur and Other Colonial Writers by Richard M. Hurst

99 Contributors

71 Volume 9, Nos. 1-2, 1983

Folklore: The State of the Field

Proceedings of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association Annual Meeting, Salisbury State College, Mary- land, April 9–10, 1983.

1 The State of Folkloristics: Introduction by Simon J. Bronner

5 Scholarly Communication Among Folklorists: Issues and Prospects by David S. Azzolina

13 Notes on a Sociology of Folklore as a Science by Sue Samuelson

21 The Supernatural and the Sociology of Knowledge: Explaining Academic Belief by David J. Huf- ford

31 Daniel Brinton’s Concept of Folklore by Becky Vorpagel

43 A. Irving Hallowell: His Contributions to Folklore Studies by Leonard Norman Primiano

55 'Tin Plate Town': Coping with 'New' Concepts on the Writers' Project in Pennsylvania by Sally Pe- terson

67 History As a Tool in a Folklife Study of the Catawba Indians of South Carolina by Thomas J. Blumer

75 'Learning of the People': Folkloristics in the Study of Behavior and Thought by Simon J. Bronner

89 Folklore and ... What? by W. F. H. Nicolaisen

99 Contributors

72 Volume 8, Nos. 3-4, 1982

The Folklorist and Belief

1 Introduction by Lydia Fish

5 On Being Human: The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries by William A. Wilson

29 Some Implications of Urban Witchcraft Beliefs by Phillips Stevens, Jr.

47 Traditions of Disbelief David J. Hufford

57 “To the Saints Which Are At Ephesus ...”: A Case Study in the Analysis of Religious Memorates by Christine A. Cartwright

71 The Magdalena Holy Picture: Religious Folk Art in Two Cultures by James S. Griffith

83 Ethnicity and Catholicism by Lydia Fish

93 Catholic Folklore and Folk Catholicism by Jack Santino

107 Contributors

73 Volume 8, Nos. 1-2, 1982

1 The Hidden Past of Material Culture Studies in American Folkloristics by Simon J. Bronner

11 Jennie’s Quilts: The Interface of Folk and Popular Tradition in the Work of a New York Quiltmaker by Yvonne J. Milspaw

25 A Folkloric Approach to Nineteenth-Century County Historians by Karen D. Lux

35 In the Suicide Mountains: An Invitation to Performance by Cristina Bacchilega

49 The Text Is Not a Thing: The Not-So-Grand Dichotomy Reconsidered by Judith Levin

59 Iroquois Irwin: New York Dancing Master by Robert M. Rennick

65 The Meandering Banks of the Dee by Arthur F. Schrader

85 By Their Names You Shall Know Them: A Toponymic Approach to the American Land and Ethos by Wilbur Zelinsky

97 Contributors

74 Volume 7, Nos. 3-4, 1981

1 Flag and Rush Industry of Savannah, New York by Hugo Freund and Amy Rashap

47 Early American Anecdotes in the Commercial Advertiser by Robert A. Gates

57 "La Vie de l'Habitant": Quebec’s Folk Culture of Survival by Peter van Lent

67 The Tickled, Tangled, Tripped, and Twisted Tongue: A Linguistic Study of Factors Relating to Difficulty in the Performance of Tongue Twisters by Marilyn Jorgensen

83 "Out There": A Metaphor of Transcendence Among New York City Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians by David G. Such

95 Book Review: Adirondack Voices: Woodsmen and Woods Lore (Robert D. Bethke) by Varick A. Chittenden

101 Contributors

75 Volume 7, Nos. 1-2, 1981

Folklife Contexts—Studies on the Spatial Matrix and Essays on the Temporal Re-construction of Folklore

1 Remarks on Folklore Contexts—The Discourse of Folklore by Gerald E. Warshaver

3 Southern Exposures: The Urban Experience and the Re-construction of Black Folk Culture and Com- munity in the Works of Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston by Günter H. Lenz

41 O. Henry’s Use of Stereotypes in his New York City Stories: An Example of the Utilization of Folklore in Literature by Martin B. Ostrofsky

65 Old-Time Music and the Urban Folk Revival by R. Raymond Allen

83 Spacey Soviets and the Russian Attitude Toward Territorial Passage by Natalie K. Moyle

97 Indian Sikh Homes Out of North American Houses: Mental Culture in Material Translation by Christine A. Cartwright

113 The Near East Restaurant: A Study of the Spatial Manifestation of the Folklore of Ethnicity by Shalom Staub

128 Contributors

76 Volume 6, Nos. 3-4, 1980

95 Robert Louis Stevenson by Helen Fraser

109 Helen Fraser by Louis C. Jones

111 Modern Anglo-American Variants of the Frog Prince (At 440) by Wolfgang Mieder

137 Variant, Dialect, and Region: An Exploration in the Geography of Tradition by W. F. H. Nicolaisen

151 Reflections on Field Research in the Folklife Sciences by Simon J. Bronner

161 St. Anthony’s Day in Cortland: “La Festa” in Central New York by Louis M. Vanaria

171 Folktales, Fictions and Meta-Fictions: Their Interaction in Robert Coover’s Pricksongs & Des- cants by Cristina Bacchilega

185 “By Hook or by Crook”: New Look at the Autograph Book by Meguido Zola

195 Mrs. Rorer and New York Foodways by Emma Seifrit Weigley

209 Note Regarding Garage Sale Folklore Donald E. Gavin

211 Book Review: Folklore From Kansas (William E. Koch) by Margaret M. Bryant

215 Contributors

77 Volume 6, Nos. 1-2, 1980

1 A New Chapter in the History of Folklore in New York City by Gerald E. Warshaver

11 ”With My Heart in My Throat and My Whistle in My Hand”: Women’s Crime-Victim Narratives from the Urban Setting by Eleanor Wachs

29 Rev. Sister Navajo, Reader and Adviser: Gypsy Fortune-Telling Handbills by Carol Silverman

45 The New Rican Village: Taking Control of the Image-Making Machinery by Marina Roseman

57 A Window on the City: Towards an Urban Folk Aesthetic by Gerald E. Warshaver

67 The Importance of Storytelling Style Among New York City Taxi Drivers by Philip Nusbaum

89 Contributors

78 Volume 5, Nos. 3-4, 1979

133 The Whittlesey Affair Rollin by Jonathan Fairbanks

138 The Wickham Brothers: Several Traditional Upstate New York Anecdotes by Paul A. Eschholz

142 Sleigh Ride for a Corpse by Donald J. Sawyer

146 The Life and Ministry of Miss Maria Cook by Charles Semowich

150 A Liberated Woman Visits the Adirondacks by David M. Ellis

155 The Erie Canal: American History through Folklore by Patricia Cooke

169 "Where Were the Paul Revere Lanterns Really Hung?": The Mystery of the Old North Church on April 18, 1775 by John Nicholls Booth

176 Remarks on "The Hasty Pudding" by Ellenore W. Doudiet

179 The Iroquois Sense of Place: Legends as a Source of Environmental Imagery by L. Peter Boice

189 Children’s Food Preferences by A. J. Lamme III and Linda Leonard Lamme

197 “I’m Afraid It Is, Kid”: The Social Dynamics of a Baseball Story by Alf H. Walle

203 Contributors

79 Volume 5, Nos. 1-2, 1979

1 Unsung Songs of Protest: The Composers Collective of New York by David King Dunaway

21 Living Room Furnishings, Ethnic Identity, and Acculturation Among Greek-Philadelphians by Robert Thomas Teske

33 Selected Name Lore in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper by Warren S. Walker

43 In Defense of Paul Bunyan by Edith Fowke

53 Cueing the Stereotype: The Verbal Strategy of the Ethnic Joke by William M. Clements

63 The Role of Wish Fulfillment in Marchen: An Adlerian Approach by Mark Glazer

79 Introducing Folklore into the High School Curriculum by Mark E. Workman

87 Folklore Diffusion Through Interactive Social Networks: Conduits in a Preadolescent Commu- nity by Gary Alan Fine

79 Book Review: The Magician, the Witch and the Law (Edward Peters) by Rossell Hope Robbins

80 Volume 4, Nos. 1-4, 1978

Utica Project

1 Introduction to the Utica Project Issue by Susan G. Davis

7 Image and Imagination: How an Ethnic Community Sees Itself by Linnie H. Thuma

21 Photographic Documentation of a Polish-American Community by Peter Hartmann and Marc Tull

35 Women’s Roles in a Company Town: New York Mills, 1900-1951 by Susan G. Davis

49 Folk Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pediatrics in Utica, New York by Karyl McIntosh

60 Evil Eye Beliefs Collected in Utica, New York by Peter Hartman and Karyl McIntos

71 Pierogi- and Babka-Making at St. Mary’s by Elizabeth Goldstein and Gail Green

81 Kosher Brownies for Passover by Marc Tull

89 Old-fashioned Polish Weddings in Utica, New York by Susan G. Davis

103 Utica’s Polka Music Tradition by Susan G. Davis

125 Teaching and Collecting Folklore at St. Mary’s School by Peg Korsmo Kennon, Libby Mahoney and Marcia Britton Wolter

148 Contributors

81 Volume 3, Nos. 1-4, 1977

1 Some Humorous Folk-Etymological Narratives W. F. H. Nicolaisen

15 The Cropsey Maniac by Lee Haring and Mark Breslerman

29 Some Aspects of Worship in a Holiness Church by Beverly Boggs

45 Name Clusters in the North Country by Kelsie B. Harder

53 "I Kicked Three Slats Out of My Cradle First Time I Heard That": Ken Kane, Country Music, and American Folklife by Simon J. Bronner

83 Folk Speech, Custom, and Belief in Harold Frederic’s THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE and STORIES OF YORK STATE by Douglas Watson

101 Cultural Vestiges and Cultural Blends Among the Pennsylvania Germans by John R. Costello

115 David Hume: Mythologist by Neil R. Grobman

131 Record Review: Come All You Good People (Frank Warner) by Charles L. Todd

134 Contributors

82 Volume 2, Nos. 3-4, 1976

123 The Dutch Barn in America: Survival of a Medieval Structural Frame by Theodore M. Prudon

148 The Folk and the Region by W. F. H. Nicolaisen

150 Religious and Scriptural Parodies by George Monteiro

167 Garage Sale Folklore by Alex S. Freedman

177 Ethnic Folklore and the School Art Curriculum by Jackie Christenson

181 “The Rhythm of Something Imperishable”: An Investigation of the Powers of Game by Robert B. Cochran

191 Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Its Recent Acceptance into the American Popular Christmas Tradition by Thomas A. Burns

205 “Remember Me”: The Sources of American Sampler Verses by Toni Flores Fratto

223 Computerlore: The Bit Bucket by Roger Dean Beatty

Folklore as Wartime Propaganda by David A. Corbin

229 The Enlisted Man: Army Folklore by William R. Ferria, Jr.

235 Rufus Rawlin’s Ride by Margaret C. Szasz and Ferenc Szasz

238 Popular Folk Synonymies by James D. Spears

247 Contributors

83 Volume 2, Nos. 1-2, 1976

2 Street Cries and Peddler Traditions in Contemporary Perspective by Simon J. Bronner

17 Narratives Associated with Irish Fiddle Tunes: Some Contextual Considerations by Michael Stoner

29 Architectural Theory for Folklife Study: A Bibliographic Guide by J. C. Camp

43 The Role of Popular Nineteenth-Century Periodical Literature in Shaping Afro-American Religious Folklore Scholarship by Neil R. Grobman

61 Cooper’s The Deerslayer and the Indian Myth of Nanabozho by Roberta F. Weldon

69 A Contextual and Cognitive Approach to Folk Art and Folk Craft by Burt Feintuch

79 Folk-Wagen: Folklore and the Volkswagen Ads by Alessandro Falassi and Gail Kligman

87 Timothy Murphy: The Man and the Legend by Mark A. Van Dyke

111 Gasoline Folklore by Catherine Harris Ainsworth

114 Response: An Analysis of "A Reappraisal of the Vampire" by Joanne Farb

118 Review: Night Riders in Black Folk History by Alf H. Walle

120 Contributors

84 Volume 1, Nos. 3-4, 1975

122 Contributors

123 Folkloristic Research As A Pedagogical Tool in Introductory Courses by Kenneth L. Ketner & Michael Owen Jones

149 Everything is a Shade of Elephant: An Alternative to a Psychoanalysis of Humor by Elliott Oring

161 Olley, Olley Oxen Free: America’s Contribution to Hide & Seek by Florence Healy French

169 Clamming in the Great South Bay by Paul Valvo

183 Three Elfin Knights from Kentucky by Bernth Lindfors

203 A Misplaced Tale-Teller Gets It in the Neck by James P. Leary

211 Niagara River Playground: The Allen Avenue Gang, 1925-1946 by Thomas S. Yukic

229 A Typescript Ethnic Joke Anthology by Michael J. Preston

235 Way Down in Fort Monroe by Anne Lutz

237 Response - Levi-Strauss on the Nile: Comments on Divale’s Article by Francis A. deCaro

239 Review — The Witch Figure by W. F. H. Nicholaisen

241 Index

85 Volume 1, Nos. 1-2, 1975

Somewhere West of Albany....A Festschrift in Honor of Louis C. Jones

1 The Great Adventure: Louis C. Jones and the New York State Historical Association by Fred Rath

7 Louis C. Jones and the Study of Folk Belief, Witchcraft and Popular Medicine in America by Wayland D. Hand

15 After the Fact or the Murderous Career of Louis Clark Jones by Thomas M. McDade

21 Uncle Louis in Folk Art Land by Nina Fletcher Little 21

23 “The Way I Remember It” by Donnarae Gordon and Betsy Mankin

31 Directions in the Study of American Folk Art by Elizabeth Mosby Adler

45 Fritz G. Vogt: Itinerant Artist by Karen Wells Lamont

57 Fritz G. Vogt: The Brookman’s Corners Drawings by Frank A. Scheuttle

75 Floyd Cornell and Frank Hansel: Two Upstate Carvers by Margaret Bouslough Parsons

91 A Classification of Faith Healing Practices by Greg Johnson

97 Babe Ruth by Bonnie McGuire

109 The Cowboy as Scientific Apache by Anne Marvin

113 Louis Holmes: Town Historian by Robert N. Sieber

86 New York Folklore Quarterly (1945-1974)

87 1974

Volume XXX, No. 1: Spring

3 “Keep on the Sunny Side of Life:” Pattern and Religious Expression in Bluegrass Gospel Music by Howard Wight Marshall

44 Some Automotive Play Activities of Suburban Teenagers by M. Licht

66 The Essence of Literary Proverb Studies by Wolfgang Mieder

77 A Remembrance of Marjorie Lansing Porter 1891-1973 by Lee Knight

Volume XXX, No. 2: Summer

83 As Sweet As You Are: The Structural Element in the Signed High School Yearbook by Steven J. Zeitlin

101 A Traditional Witch of the Twentieth Century by Jane C. Beck

117 In Search of a Mythology: William Butler Yeats and Folklore by Neil R. Grobman

137 Harvey Birch: The Yankee Peddler as an American Hero by Robert A. Fink

153 An Iroquois Death Messenger Vision by Russell A. Judkins

157 A Note on Folk Curses by James E. Spears

Volume XXX, No. 3: Autumn

163 Old-Time Fiddling and Social Dance in Central St. Lawrence County by Robert D. Bethke

185 The Preparation and Use of Bear Grass Rope: An Interview with Robert Simmons, Mississippi Folk Craftsman by Robert and Martha Cochran with Christopher Pierle

197 Witchcraft and Superstition in THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT by Kevin M. McCarthy

212 The Use of Hudson Valley Traditions in Washington Irving’s KNICKERBOCKER HISTORY OF NEW YORK by Robert C. Wess

226 The Era of the Drover by Richard F. Palmer

232 The Jersey Devil’s Finest Hour by Jeremiah J. Sullivan with James F. McCloy

88 240 Contributors

Volume XXX, No. 4: Winter

243 The Production Welder: Product, Process and the Industrial Craftsman by Robert S. McCarl, Jr.

254 Myth and the Psychological School: Fact or Fantasy by William R. Ferris, Jr.

267 The Image of New York City in American Popular Music: 1890–1970 by Floyd M. Henderson

279 Rumpelstilzchen by Adrian Birney

286 Polish-American Church Legends by Catherine Harris Ainsworth

295 They Taught Folklore by Kay Hardman

299 1 Tot Phoclor by Norine Dresser

309 The American Folk Legend: A Symposium, Reviewed by Howard Wight Marshall

313 Aspects of Early New York Society and Politics Reviewed by Alf H. Walle

315 Index for Volume XXX

89 1973

Volume XXIX, No. 1: Spring

3 Folklore and Geography: Towards an Atlas of American Folk Culture by W. F. H. Nicolaisen

21 An Interview with Brice Tyler — Bird Carver by Martha and Bob Cochran

38 American Folktales from the Recent Wars by Catherine Harris Ainsworth

50 The Metaphor in American Folk Speech by James E. Spears

58 The Italians Came Up Watertown Way by Lydia Q. Pietripaoli

80 Contributors

Volume XXIX, No. 2: Summer

83 "Ah," He Says, "I've Heard of You." "Oh," I Said, "No Doubt!" Status Seeking Through Story Telling by James R. Dow

97 Nursing-Lore by Lois A. Monteiro

111 Folk Housing Micro-Studies: A Central New York Example by Ary J. Lamme III and Douglas B. McDonald

121 Telephone Pranks by Norine Dresser

131 Drugged and Seduced: A Contemporary Legend by Andrea Greenberg

159 Contributors

Volume XXIX, No. 3: Autumn

163 Halloween by Catherine Harris Ainsworth

194 A Reappraisal of the Vampire by Louis Winkler and Carol Winkler

206 Folk Song and Culture: Charles Seeger and Alan Lomax by William R. Ferris, Jr.

219 Autograph Memorabilia as an Output of Social Interaction and Communication by Stephen Stern

240 Contributors

90 Volume XXIX, No. 4: Winter

242 Contributors

242 Unintentional Substitution in Folklore Transmission: A Devolutionary Instance by William M. Clements

254 The St. Lawrence River Skiff and the Folklore of Boats by Richard Lunt

269 The Trickster as Literary Hero: Cecil Brown’s The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger by William H. Wiggins, Jr.

287 The Cognatic-Affinal Paradox in the Egyptian Myth of Osiris: A Critical Application of the Structural Method by William Tulio Divale

304 Washington Irving and New England Witchlore by James W. Clark, Jr.

314 Index for Volume XXIX by Helen A. Fraser

91 1972

Volume XXVIII, No. 1: Spring

3 Two Hungarian-American Stereotypes by Linda Dégh

15 Henry Bergh, Kit Burns, and the Sportsmen of New York by Martin and Herbert J. Kaufman

30 The Old Wife in the Dormitory—Sexual Folklore and Magical Practices from State University College by Lydia Fish

37 Fitch Against Emigration: Hyde Park, Vermont 1816 by T. D. Seymour Bassett

43 Stewart Wilson: The Hermit of Sacandaga Park by Harry E. Resseguie

61 A Source List in Ethnobotany by Sister M. Inez Hilger and Margaret Mondloch

240 Contributors

Volume XXVIII, No. 2: Summer

83 Moon Cake in Chinatown, New York City: Continuity and Change by Janet Langlois

118 The Limited Fame of Sam Patch by Kathleen M. Kavanagh

135 The Folklore of Draft Resistance by Henry E. Anderson

151 The Making of Hiawatha by Joseph S. Pronechen

Volume XXVIII, No. 3: Autumn

162 Contributors

163 Folklore in the Schools: Teaching, Collecting, and Publishing by Richard S. Tallman

187 The Physical Development of the Banjo by Thomas Adler

209 Ballad Tragedy and the Moral Matrix: Observations on Tragic Causation by Harry B. Caldwell

221 Hawthorne’s Folk-Motifs and THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES by Robert Moore

234 Three Chinese Legends by Rosemary Agonito

92 Volume XXVIII, No. 4: Winter

242 Introductory Note by Vaughn Ward

243 Student Editor’s Note by Dan Peterson

244 I Can Remember: An Interview with Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Brann by Dolly Brann

257 Italian Folklore by Michael Brunetti

263 A Day with Lawrence Older by Thomas McGarry, Kim Maruska and Michael Brunetti

271 Traditional Polish Cooking by Marie Palowski, Kathy Zalucki and Suzanne Nagorka

286 The Life of Felicia Nagorka by Suzanne Nagorka

293 Pop Owen by Geoffrey Cortelyou and Kathleen Greene

305 A House History: 2955 Rosendale Road, Schenectady, New York by Bob Patterson

314 Index to Volume XXVIII by Helen A. Fraser

93 1971

Volume XXVII, No. 1: Spring

82 Contributors

83 Two Ladies from New York by Peter C. Welsh

97 The UCLA Conference on American Folk Legend by Richard M. Dorson

113 John Greenleaf Whittier and Folklore: The Search for a Traditional American Past by George Carey

130 Whalemen and their Songs: A Study of Folklore and Culture by Elliott Oring

153 “Is It Fresh?” An Examination of Jewish-American Shopping Habits by Norine Dresser

Volume XXVII, No. 2: Summer

162 Editor’s Page

163 The Civil War Songster of a Monroe County Farmer by Jean F. Gravelle

231 Migratory Legend of "The Cut-Out Pullman": Saga of American Railroading by Wayland D. Hand

236 The Magic of the Black-Eyed Pea by Charles R. Mangam

240 Contributors

Volume XXVII, No. 3: Autumn

242 Editor’s Page by Roderick J. Roberts

243 (PC + CB) X SD (R+ I+ E) = HERO by Michael Owen Jones

261 The Collection of Racial Lore: Approaches and Problems by William R. Ferris, Jr.

280 The Function of Political Graffiti as Artistic Creativity by Patricia A. Mastick

297 Bill Holland by Bill Holland with John Holway

315 Cold Summer of 1816: Fact or Fancy? The Example of Cortland by Roger C. Heppell

94 Volume XXVII, No. 4: Winter

323 Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking as Folk Hero by John M. Vlach

339 Folklore and Folklife in the Works of John M. Synge by William R. Ferris, Jr.

357 “Ye Must Contrive Allers to Keep Jest the Happy Medium Between Truth and Falsehood”: Folklore and the Folk in Mrs. Stowe’s Fiction by Michael Owen Jones

370 Richard Harris Barham and His Use of Folklore by David J. Winslow

385 Some Italian Folktales of the Niagara Frontier by Catherine Harris Ainsworth

393 Index to Volume XXVII by Helen A. Fraser

399 Contributors

95 1970

Volume XXVI, No. 1: Spring

2 Contributors

3 The Viable Community: Redirections through Applied Folklore by Cortland P. Auser

14 The Multiple Effects of the Tragic Event in the Child Ballad by Harry B. Caldwell

42 Cooper’s Use of Proverbs in the Anti-Rent Novels by Florence Healy French

50 A Study of Children’s Folklore by Mary Ganim

64 Little Mohee by Kendrick Smithyman

71 The Flower Children Communicate by Margaret Cornely McNab

76 Hemingway’s Religious Parody by Kelsie B. Harder

78 Reply to Gerald Parsons’ "Sam Patch" by Herbert A. Wisley, Jr.

Volume XXVI, No. 2: Summer

83 Legend and Local History by Roderick J. Roberts

91 Railroad Folk Songs on Record — A Survey by Norman Cohen

114 Ice Harvesting by David Rhys Roberts

127 Secret Languages of School Children by Rochele Berkovits

153 Notes on Sea Serpents of Coastal New England by L. D. Geller

Volume XXVI, No. 3: Autumn

163 From Advice to Laments Once Again: New York Autograph Albums: 1850-1900 by W. K. McNeil

204 Thousands of Years of Halloween by Louis and Carol Winkler

216 The Metamorphosis of the Humor of the Black Man by Norine Dresser

229 Cooper the Tinkerer by Florence Healy French

96 240 Contributors

Volume XXVI, No. 4: Winter

242 Grant Announcement by William M. Schwerd

242 Dingbat Prouty: An Excursion into Communal Scholarship by Harriet Conners, Carolyn Hankins, Florence Ireland, Edward Ives, William Joy, and William Yerxa

263 The Inadvertent Changing of Non-English Names by Newcomers to America: A Brief Historical Survey and Popular Presentation of Cases by Robert M. Rennick

283 "Muels," "Owls," and Other Things: Folk Material in the Tobacco Philosophy of Josh Billings by Geoffrey Allan Grimes

297 "A True and Jenuine Madstone" by Richard G. Case

305 Voodoo: Tropical Pharmacology or Psychosomatic Psychology by James F. Byers

313 Index for Volume XXVI by Helen A. Fraser

312 Contributors

97 1969

Volume XXV, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page by Roderick J. Roberts

3 A Schoharie County Songster by William K. McNeil

59 Religious Parodies by George Monteiro

77 Book Reviews by William G. Tyrrell

80 Contributors

Volume XXV, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page by Roderick J. Roberts

83 Sam Patch Falls Again: Second Thoughts on a Folk Hero by Gerald Parsons

93 The Druse Case: Murder Ballad Fragments by Richard G. Case

100 The Kreutz Brothers: Craftsmen in Glass by Robert Atkinson

119 Successive Name-Changing: A Popular Theme in Onamastic Folklore and Literature by Robert M. Rennick

129 A Child of the Thirties by Pauline N. Barrese

137 Gemutlichkeit by Pauline Franz

160 Contributors

Volume XXV, No. 3: Autumn

162 The Chicago Folklore Prize

163 "Brandy and Water": American Folk Types in the Works of Artemus Ward by Geoffrey A. Grimes

175 From Advice to Laments: New York Autograph Album Verse: 1820–1850 by W. K. McNeil

195 A Traditional Murder Test in King Philip’s War by L. D. Geller

202 Czech Tales by Valerie Mclaughlin

98 221 Some Rhymes, Games and Songs from Children in the New Rochelle Area by Barbara Castagna

238 Record Review

Volume XXV, No. 4: Winter

243 History and Folklore by Richard M. Hurst

261 The Tram Way by Ruth R. Glunt

265 Cockfighting: A Potential Field of Research by Gerald E. Parsons, Jr.

289 "The Persian’s Crew"—The Ballad, Its Author, and the Incident by Norman Cohen

297 Two Proverbial Phrases: "Balled Up" and "Neat as Apple Pie" by Duncan Emrich

299 The Lady With the Snake in Her by Donald J. Sawyer

306 Fowler’s Follies by Sorens K. Petersen

310 Book Notes by William G. Tyrrell

314 Book Review by Peter H. Smith

316 Index Volume XXV by Helen A. Fraser

99 1968

Volume XXIV, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 Bricks Without Straw at Haverstraw by Daniel de Noyelles

16 Arcade Revisited: Some Additional Notes for A Pioneer Songster by Arthur F. Schrader

27 Nathan Adler Stops at the Bahams by Richard H. Brown

44 Westchester Place Names: Strata of Folk-life and History by Cortland P. Auser

50 Jazz as Art: The Critics and the Public by Richard B. Vexler

64 More Examples of Humor, Blasphemy and Criticism in the Grace Before Meat by Kenneth Porter

67 Folklore in the Schools

71 Book Reviews

80 Contributors

Volume XXIV, No. 2: Summer

82 Editorial Note by Cortland P. Auser

83 Symposium: The Making of the Hero—Introduction by J. T. McMullen, Jr.

88 Buckskin West: Leatherstocking at High Noon by Warren S. Walker

103 King Arthur and the English National Character by Charles Moorman

113 The Spanish Folk Hero as a Reflection of His Culture by T. Wesley Childers

129 Law-Breakers, Law-Givers and Preachers in the Turkish Oral Tradition by Ahmet Edip Uysal

144 Symposium: The Making of a Hero

Volume XXIV, No. 3: Autumn

100 163 Folksongs of the American Circus by Marcello Truzzi

176 Uncle Phil of Cooperstown by Richard G. Case

184 J. Henry Rushton—A North Country Craftsman by Atwood Manley

194 Adirondack Lady by Eleanor Franz

203 The Only Official Hanging in Cortland County—The Crime and Punishment of Patrick O’Donough by Louise Mellilo

212 The Brooklyn Public Library’s Baby-Naming Service by Robert M. Rennick

221 "America" by William Tuckman

227 Book Reviews

240 Contributors

Volume XXIV, No. 4: Winter

242 President’s Page by Bruce R. Buckley

243 The Construction of "The Devil and Tom Walker": A Study of Irving’s Later Use of Folklore by Charles G. Zug, III

261 The Scotch-Irish and the British Traditional Ballad in America by William H. Tallmadge

275 Depictions of New York in Early American Poetry by Eugene L. Huddleston

294 Occupational Superstitions of Negro Prostitutes in an Upstate New York City by David J. Winslow

212 Polish Customs in New York Mills, N.Y. by Robert Maziarz

308 Book Reviews

312 Index

320 Contributors

101 1967

Volume XXIII, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 An Ethnomusicological Survey Among the People of the Ramapo Mountains, Part I by Charles H. Kaufman

45 Mythology, Prestige and Politics: A Case for Onondaga Cultural Persistence by Harold Blau

52 Il Paisano: Immigrant Italian Folktales in Central New York by Rosemary Agonito

65 Marshall Winslow Stearns, 1908-1966

66 The Folklore Scene

69 Book Reviews

80 Contributors

Volume XXIII, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page

83 Li’l Abner in American Satire by Arthur A. Berger

99 Similes and Metaphors in Cooper’s The Pathfinder by Lura and Duilio T. Pedrini

109 An Ethnomusicological Survey Among the People of the Ramapo Mountains, Part II by Charles H. Kaufman

133 The Female Hermit by Robert E. Pike

136 Mrs. Redfield’s Socks by Richard G. Case

139 Hall of Fame Busts “Taken for Rides” by Charles A. Huguenin

143 An Ethnic Culture Survey

144 Folklore Gleanings — Truck Legends

160 Contributors

102 Volume XXIII, No. 3: Autumn

162 Editor’s Page

163 The Use of Folklore in David Harum by Henry Glassie

186 Steamboat Captains of Yore by Donald C. Ringwald

196 Queen of the Bowery by A. A. Bernstein

202 Around the Algonquin by Watson G. Harding

225 Folklore in the Schools

229 Folklore in Papier Maché and Embroidery by Ruth Rosenblatt

231 Book Reviews

237 George Korson (1899-1967) by Ben A. Botkin

240 Contributors

Volume XXIII, No. 4: Winter

242 Editor’s Page

243 More Apologies: The Indian in New York Fiction by Thomas F. O'Donnell

253 Onondaga False Face Rituals by Harold Blau

264 Indian Myths Concerning the Origin of Tobacco by J. T. McCullen, Jr.

274 Indian Medicinal Herbs and the White Man’s Medicine by Dorothy Bright Taylor

283 G. P. R. James’s Ticonderoga — A Mohawk Valley Legend in a Forgotten Victorian Novel by Kenneth W. Scott

290 The Good News of Handsome Lake by Charles E. Congdon

298 Folklore in Colleges — A College Course in the Ballad, Or What To Do With “Little Matty Groves” by Lee Haring

305 The Folklore Scene

103 305 Book Reviews

312 Contributors

313 Index Volume XXIII by Helen Fraser

104 1966

Volume XXII, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 President’s Page

5 The Folklore of Curious and Unusual Names by Robert M. Rennick

15 Fenimore Cooper and Pinkster by James H. Pickering

20 Some Green-Wood Legends by Francis De Caro

25 A Feathered Stockholder by Charles A. Huguenin

31 "Scarhead"—The Phantom Fish of Schuyler County by Arthur H. Richards, Jr.

34 The Thunderbird of the Gilded Age by Harry E. Resseguie

52 Folklore Gleanings

57 The Folklore Scene

80 Contributors

Volume XXII, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page

83 Guide and Party by Paul F. Jamieson

96 Once More A’Lumbering Go by Lawrence Older

104 “That’s the Way They Lived” by Anne and Frank Warner

113 Collecting Adirondack Folklore by Marjorie Lansing Porter

122 The Schroon Lake Area

132 Legends of an Adirondack Grandfather by Miriam Whitney White

143 Tales from Colton by Peter A. Ward

147 An Adirondack Humorist by Mabel Jones

105 149 Fur Trading in the Adirondacks by Samuel Edelburg

153 Adirondack Folklore from the Farmers’ Museum Collection

159 Contributors

Volume XXII, No. 3: Autumn

162 Annual Meeting of the New York Folklore Society

163 President’s Page

165 The Wedderspoon Farm by Henry Glassie

188 Bears and the Bard: An Adirondack Reverie by Matthew Conlin, O.F.M.

194 The Powers of Darkness by Alonzo Gibbs

197 Folklore and Some Wills by William F. Dornbusch

201 The Water Cure at "The San" by Josephine M. Johnson

206 Early Days in the Adirondacks by Emily Mitchell Wires

213 S. R. Stoddard and Old Mountain Phelps by Maitland C. DeSormo

220 The Folklore Scene

239 Yorker Folklore Contest

240 Contributors

Volume XXII, No. 4: Winter

242 Contributors

243 Folk Ingenuity Behind Bars by Bruce Jackson

251 Vernacular Dance in Musical Comedy: Harlem Takes the Lead by Marshall and Jean Stearns

261 On the Etiology of Werewolves by Wes Whittlesey

268 Yiddish Sayings and Some Parallels from the Sayings of Other Peoples by Ruth Rubin

274 Burt Conkin, the Greatest Trapper by Lloyd Blankman

106 298 The Folklore Scene

315 Index Volume XXII by Helen A. Fraser

107 1965

Volume XXI, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 Humor, Blasphemy, and Criticism in the Grace Before Meat by Kenneth W. Porter

19 Ice Fishing on Lake Champlain by C. Eleanor Hall

26 Long Island Life

28 The Jockeys of Jockey Street by W. Bronson Taylor

31 Shube Merritt: Freebooter of the Neutral Ground by James H. Pickering

40 From Podunk to Zip Code 13652: Place-Names in St. Lawrence County by Mary H. Biondi and Nina W. Smithers

49 Immigrant’s Idyll: Maurice Hindus in Upstate New York by Cecyle S. Neidle

58 Some Religious Humor From the Past by Julia Hull Winner

63 College Courses in Folklore

64 The Folklore Scene

80 Contributors

Volume XXI, No. 2: Summer

82 1965 Yorker Folklore Contest

83 President’s Page

85 The Name of the Game by A. A. Bernstein

92 John Wesley Jarvis, James Kirke Paulding and Colonel Nimrod Wildfire by Joseph J. Arpad

107 Project in New York State Folk Beliefs by Lionel D. Wyld

109 Lore and Legends from Johnstown by Catharine Bryant Rowles

119 The Happy Valley by Pauline Dakin Taft

123 Toward a Literary History of the Popular Ballad by David C. Fowler

108 142 Folklore Gleanings

145 The Folklore Scene

160 Contributors

Volume XXI, No. 3: Autumn

162 Editor’s Page

163 President’s Page

164 Yorker Folklore Contest

165 Love in the City by Fanya Del Bourgo (as told to B. A. Botkin)

179 Variations in Stickball: Lengthwise, Against-the-Wall, Pitching-in Swift and Catch-a-Fly-You’re-Up by Arthur B. Silverstein

184 Southern Italian Folklore in New York City by Pauline N. Barrese

194 Tales of New York City—A Book Preview by M. Jagendorf

206 Teaching Folklore in an Urban High School by Karl Ames

212 The Play-Party Today by Lanie Melamed

220 The Folklore Scene

240 Contributors

Volume XXI, No. 4: Winter

243 Social Sense and Verbal Nonsense in Urban Children’s Folklore by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers

259 A Bibliographical Introduction to American Folklore by Robert Wildhaber

303 Folklore Gleanings

304 The Folklore Scene

313 Contributors

314 Index to Volume XXI by Helen A. Fraser

109 1964

Volume XX, No. 1: Spring

2 Harold William Thompson, 1891-1964

3 President’s Page

5 Jemima Wilkinson: Historical Figure and Folk Character by Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr.

13 The Declaration of Independence for Greenwich Village by Charles A. Huguenin

20 A Church from Devil’s Money by Donald J. Sawyer

27 The Child Seer of Cherry Valley by Ellen Sheehan Smith

31 Homeward Bound: A Utopian Credo by Robert S. Fogarty

37 The Death of Mrs. Powell by W. Bronson Taylor

42 Place-Names and Folklore in Dutchess County by Amy Ver Nooy

47 An Early American Printing of "Barbara Allen" by John T. Flanagan

55 Yorker Folklore Contest

57 Folklore Gleanings

60 The Folklore Scene

79 Contributors

Volume XX, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page

83 Growing Up by Anne Gertrude Sneller

98 The Superstitions of Baseball Players by Lee Allen

110 City Slickers in the Catskill Woods by Norman Studer

115 Old Overlook by Ruth Reynolds Glunt

122 The Ritual of the Surgical Scrub by Wes Whittlesey

110 126 An Ounce of Prevention, and Grandma Tried Them All by Michael La Barbera

130 American Folk Culture: A Graduate College Program

134 Folklore Gleanings

139 The Folklore Scene

160 Contributors

Volume XX, No. 3: Autumn

162 A Calendar for Folklorists

163 Legends and Folklore of Cortland County by Porter K. Bennett

175 Where the Twain Shall Meet—The Lebanese in Cortland County by Suad Joseph

192 Three Centuries of Niagara Falls

194 Our Heritage Good Food

199 Magazine Humor and the Depression Years by Don Hausdorff

215 Harold W. Thompson, 1891-1964, Some Tributes and Reminiscences

The Folklore Scene:

• 223 Obiter Dicta: Harold W. Thompson as Seen in His New York Folklore Society Correspondence

• 228 For New Yorkers

• 230 Some Books for the Folk

• 236 Record Reviews

240 Contributors

Volume XX, No. 4: Winter

243 Folk Elements in John Brown’s Body by John T. Flanagan

257 Horse Tales by Helen Ireland Hays

261 Whiskey and Carpeting—Firefighters by Harold Van Dusen

111 263 Country People and Yankee Storytellers: New Hampshire Local Anecdotes by Ben A. Botkin

269 Poison Ivy, Friend of the Rebel by Harry E. Storm

270 Hunting the Hunter: Nat Foster Today by Eleanor Franz

276 On Game Morphology: A Study of the Structure of Non-Verbal Folklore by Alan Dundes

289 From a Collector’s Notebook: Yiddish Anecdotes, Jokes and Sayings by Ruth Rubin

296 The Folklore Scene

310 Contributors

312 Index Volume XX by Helen A. Fraser

112 1963

Volume XIX, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 Rum-Running Tales from the East End by Jeannette Edwards Rattray

14 Welch Hollow by Fred T. Stiles

27 Tales of a Hudson River Island by Ruth Reynolds Glunt

37 Crime and Catastrophe in York State in 1841 as Reported in Two Broadside Accounts by Gilbert Hagerty

47 Tales of Murder and Mystery from Allegany County by Hazel M. Shear

53 Stones and Kegs in Schoharie and Chemung by Harry B. Kelsey

55 Grandmother’s Story by Mayte E. Sutton

56 Wit and Humor a Century Ago by Julia Hull Winner

62 The Folklore Scene by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

77 Other Folklore Articles Worth Noting

80 Contributors

Volume XIX, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page

83 The Folksong Revival: A Symposium by Ben A. Botkin, Moderator

143 Folklore and Advertising by Alan Dundes

152 Folklore and Folk History—A High School Elective by Margaret Mattison Coffin

156 The Folklore Scene by William G. Tyrrell

160 Contributors

Volume XIX, No. 3: Autumn

113 162 President’s Page

163 Folklore from the Heart of Italy, Part I by Lydia Q. Pietropaoli

183 Take the Gray Basin by Mary H. Biondi

196 Yorker Folklore Contest

197 "Coxey" Bivens—Delaware Valley Cave Dweller by Arthur N. Meyers

202 Facts and Fancies of Taughannock by Margaret Badger

211 Charles Godfrey Leland—Neglected Folklorist by Moritz Jagendorf

220 Wit and Humor A Century Ago, Part II by Julia Hull Winner

224 Folklore Gleanings

226 The Folklore Scene by Ben A. Botkin & William G. Tyrrell

240 Contributors

Volume XIX, No. 4: Winter

242 Editor’s Page

243 Quaker Hill—Folklife in a Quaker Community by Berton Braley and Lowell Thomas

261 The Autoharp: Its Origin and Development from a Popular to a Folk Instrument by A. Doyle Moore

274 A Close Call by Jean M. Conway

275 Tales Our Fathers Told Us by Ruth Seaman

279 Otillia’s Moss Rose by Margilynn Fox Watkins

281 Aunt Sarah’s Falls by Barbara Bell

283 Folklore from the Heart of Italy, Part II by Lydia Q. Pietropaoli

296 Addenda by Robert H. Woodward

299 Folklore Gleanings

303 Announcements

305 The Folklore Scene

114 311 Contributors

312 Index Volume XIX by Helen A. Fraser

115 1962

Volume XVIII, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

FOLKLORE IN THE SCHOOLS

3 The Place of Folklore in Education by Norman Studer

12 Old Tales and New Tongues by Anthony Navarra

16 Folklore and Marionettes by Mari Schaus

24 Folklore Marginalia in Old Textbooks by Robert H. Woodward

28 Students Test Ripley’s Incredible Statements by Charles A. Huguenin

35 District No. 11 Acquires a Schoolhouse by Ellen L. Hamilton

39 Image of the Folklorist by Tristram P. Coffin

44 Folklore in Higher Education by Richard M. Dorson

COLLEGE LORE

55 Purdue Classroom Recollection by William Tillson

58 Oberlin Lore by Constance D. Sherman

61 The Clerk of Oxenford in Oral Tradition by J. A. Lavin

65 Two Anecdotes of Immigrant Life by J. Gorelick

67 What One Elephant Started by Jean Cowles

70 Another Underground by Morse Manly

72 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

80 Contributors

Volume XVIII, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page

116 WOODSTOCK FEATURE

86 Bluestone Lore and Bluestone Men by Alf Evers

CENTENNIAL FEATURE

107 Mohawk Valley Folk Life During the Civil War by Robert H. Woodward

119 Ghost City of Cartersville by Philip Osterling

125 The Folklore of A. T. Stewart by Harry E. Resseguie

COLLEGE LORE

141 Frogs and Their Imitators by Gertrude Churchill Whitney

145 A Prayer for Examinations by Charles A. Huguenin

DEPARTMENTS

149 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

158 Editor’s Bookshelf

160 Contributors

Volume XVIII, No. 3: Autumn

162 President’s Page

163 A Perspective on Folk Medicine by Per Guldbeck

172 The Quaker’s Curse in New York City’s First “Love Murder” by Charles L. Huguenin

197 The Little Lady in Pants by Charles M. Snyder

214 Early American Circus Elephants: A Further Note by Robert W. Woodward

217 The Taller the Better by Mildred R. Larson

DEPARTMENTS

235 Upstate, Downstate by William G. Tyrrell

239 Contributors

117 Volume XVIII, No. 4: Winter

242 President’s Page

243 The Little People by Louis C. Jones

265 Here Lies Schroon Lake by Lewis Haberly

273 Apples in Life and Lore by Moritz A. Jagendorf

284 Y. L. Cahan’s Instructions on Collecting Folklore by Richard Bauman

290 Focus on Folk Festivals by Alf Evers and Frank M. Warner

294 Folksongs and Folklore in Education by John Anthony Scott

302 Announcements and Requests

303 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and William G. Tyrrell

315 Index Volume XVIII by Helen A. Fraser

118 1961

Volume XVII, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

CIVIL WAR LORE

3 The Domine by Donald J. Sawyer

6 A High Old Time in Albany by Kenneth Scott

10 A Civil War Sampler by B. A. Botkin

14 The Saga of Benjy Levy by Moritz A. Jagendorf

17 Lookout in the Catskills by Norman Studer

21 Teresa Sickles’ Dreams by James J. Flynn

23 Elmira and the Underground Railroad by Barbara K. Walker

32 Two Tales from the Hudson Valley by Pauline Hommell

36 Women in Blue and Gray by Charles A. Huguenin

51 Harold Frederic’s Use of British and Irish Folklore by Robert H. Woodward

56 Canal Diary by David Winslow

59 A Farce on Erie Water by Lionel D. Wyld

63 The Hook and Eye People of Northern New York by Mary Alice Conners

DEPARTMENTS

69 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

78 Editor’s Bookshelf

80 Contributors

Volume XVII, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page by Charles L. Wallis

119 CIVIL WAR LORE

83 The Elmira Prison Camp by Robert Anderson

87 Memories of the Fighting Fourteenth by Paul Bailey

90 Three Civil War Songs by Frank Warner

95 Oswego’s Abolitionists and Their Tunnels by Charles McCool Snyder

104 The Underground in Oswego by Mildred R. Larson

109 Civil War Frogman by Dorothy Godfrey Wayman

116 The Lore of the Monitor by Henry Noble McCracken

123 Women on the Home Front by Julia Hull Winner

127 A Civil War Argument by Moritz A. Jagendorf

129 Old Sarsparilla by Mayte E. Sutton

131 A Quaker Funeral at Saratoga at Saratoga Springs by Maurice A. Mook

138 Abbot Parker’s Picture of the Crucifixion by James J. Flynn and Charles A. Huguenin

148 Ballon Ascension in Oswego by Charles F. Wells

DEPARTMENTS

151 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

158 Editor’s Bookshelf

160 Contributors

Volume XVII, No. 3: Autumn

162 Editor’s Page

163 College Folklore by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr.

173 Yiddish Folksongs of Immigration and the Melting Pot by Ruth Rubin

183 The House on the Pink Straffordshire Plate by Miriam Biskin

187 A Discography (LP) of American Labor Union Songs by Archie Green

120 194 Bygone Fishing Techniques by Per Guldbeck

197 Harold Frederic’s Woodchuck Story by Robert H. Woodward

200 The Mammoth Raft by Alice G. Willis

202 Superstitions Used as Propaganda in the American Revolution by Ray B. Browne

212 Lunar Real Estate For Sale by Charles H. Huguenin

218 Spiritualists in Conclave by Charles F. Wells

221 Two Epitaphs by David J. Winslow

JUNIOR LORE

223 Johnny Parmeteer and the Wolves by Leon N. Armer

226 Peter’s Sandals by Lewis A. Ondis

DEPARTMENTS

229 Editor’s Bookshelf

232 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

239 Contributors

Volume XVII, No. 4: Winter

242 Editor’s Page

COLLEGE FOLKLORE

243 Quaker Campus Lore by Maurice A. Mook

253 Lore from Union and Princeton by Neil B. Reynolds

256 Burial of Calculus at Syracuse by Charles H. Huguenin

263 Memories of an Old Grad by Robert E. Pike

STUDENT LORE

271 The Taller the Better by Mildred R. Larson

287 The Strange Life of Fannie Read by Pierre DeNio

121 293 The Cursed Peach Orchard by Mayte E. Sutton

DEPARTMENTS

296 Notes and Queries

297 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

307 Editor’s Bookshelf

312 Contributors

313 Index for Volume XVII

122 1960

Volume XVI, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 Year of History Dramas by Albert B. Corey

6 Folk Festival of the Catskills by Norman Studer

10 Bicentennial at Old Fort Niagara by Grove McClellan

15 Indian Festival at Ticonderoga by Jane M. Lape

19 Nundawaga Society for History and Folklore by Robert E. Moody

25 Hill Cumorah Mormon Pageant by Harold I. Hansen

27 The Ghosts of Nine Cornered Lake by David J. Winslow

30 Franklin, Whittier and the Erie County Epitaph by Robert H. Woodward

32 Two Tales of Three Nails by George A. Agogino and David W. Pickett

37 Some Fabulous Birds by Constance D. Sherman

48 The Truth About the Schooner Hesperus by Charles A. Huguenin

53 A Note on an Entry in Pepys’ Diary by Paul G. Brewster

57 A Western New York Farm Inventory—1829 by James M. Edmunds

64 The Scheme of H. L. Ives by Earl R. Hutchison

68 Upstate, Downstate by W. G. Tyrrell & B. A. Botkin

76 Editor’s Bookshelf

79 Contributors

80 Postscript

Volume XVI, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page

123 83 Harold Frederic and New York Folklore by Robert H. Woodward

90 Catskill Lockup Songs by Norman Cazden

104 Drygoods and Cracker Barrel by Dorothy G. Wayman

110 The Frontiersman as Recluse and Redeemer by Warren S. Walker

123 The Chair by Robert Anderson

125 The Trial and Hanging of Edward H. Rulloff by Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr.

FOR YOUNGER READERS

131 Counting-Out Customs of Australian Children by Dorothy Howard

145 You’re It In New York State by Eugenia L. Millard

DEPARTMENTS

150 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

156 Editor’s Bookshelf

157 The Glory Hole

160 Contributors

Volume XVI, No. 3: Autumn

162 President’s Page

163 The Lightbulb Angel by George R. Clay

174 Nat Foster: Hunter by Charles Atwell and Marvin A. Rapp

179 The Little Red Schoolhouse by Helen Ives Lyon

187 Condemned to the Noose by Charles A. Huguenin

197 Daybook for Two by Erica R. Davies

203 Wolfe’s Use of Folklore by Leslie A. Field

THE GLORY HOLE

216 The Laziest Man in Pike by Robert M. French

124 217 Shoo-Fly by Donald J. Sawyer

221 The Money-Diggers of Niagara County by Julia Hull Winner

226 Identifying Mother Ann Lee’s Picture by Eugene F. Kramer

FOR YOUNGER READERS

227 Folk Tales for Children: A Bibliography by Barbara K. Walker

234 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

240 Contributors

Volume XVI, No. 4: Winter

243 The Sack of Onions by Anthony Navarra

255 The Spuyten Duyvil Enigma by Ray T. Kelly

266 A Texas Game In South Butler by Laurence A. Johnson

271 The Time Old Bella Lost Her Cud by Alf Evers

279 Pioneer Doctor of Upstate New York by Fred T. Stiles

287 A Delaware River Raftsman by Pierre DeNio

295 New Year's Calling by Alonzo Gibbs

298 The Supernatural in Scotia by Neil B. Reynolds

DEPARTMENTS

301 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

308 Editor’s Bookshelf

310 Index for Volume XVI by Helen A. Fraser

125 1959

Volume XV, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

4 The Ghost of Ticonderoga by Charles A. Huguenin

24 "Boots" Van Steenburgh by Pauline Hommell

28 The Ducking of Anne Dougel by Kenneth Scott

36 We Call It The Rickey by Alf Evers

48 The Legend of Breakneck by James J. Flynn

58 André: A Case of Modern Folklore by Henry Noble MacCracken

65 Up the Hudson Afoot and Afloat by Constance D. Sherman

70 Dating the Action of "Rip Van Winkle" by Robert H. Woodward

DEPARTMENTS

71 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

77 The Editor’s Bookshelf

78 Contributors

79 Postscript

Volume XV, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page

83 Schoharie Sam David J. Winslow

86 Ring Fancy’s Knell by Dorothy G. Wayman

91 Yiddish Sayings and English Equivalents by Ruth Rubin

SCHOOL LORE

93 Pity the Pupil by Clayton Mau

126 98 Notes from a Schoolmaster’s Diary by Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr.

104 The Portrait That Came to Life by James J. Flynn and Charles A. Huguenin

112 Homemade Fireworks by Katharine G. Ecob

STUDENT STUDIES

115 Tales from Farmingdale by Carole W. Rau

115 A Canoga Tale by Margaret Ann Amidon

YEAR OF HISTORY

116 Pang Yang’s Poet-Chronicler by Harold Harris

NEIGHBORS

126 Humor in Lehigh Valley by Leah A. Strong

EPITAPHS

130 What Gravestones Tell Us by Neil B. Reynolds

JUVENILE LORE

132 Racing, Chasing, and Marching by Eugenia L. Millard

150 Books for Younger Readers

DEPARTMENTS

151 Upstate, Downstate B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

159 Editors’ Bookshelf

161 Contributors

Volume XV, No. 3: Autumn

164 President’s Page

165 Turning Back the Waters of the Ashokan by Norman Studer

169 Streets with Celestial Names by Charles F. Wells

172 The Female Hunter by Robert E. Pike

127 183 Cassadaga Lake Tragedy and the “Elegiac Stanzas” by Roger C. Heppell

190 Road Talk by Otto C. Dietterle

YEAR OF HISTORY

192 The Kidd Salvage Project in the Hudson River by Charles A. Huguenin

215 Epitaph from Erie County by Bessie Dahn

216 Cassadaga Wolf Hunt by Gladys Carlson

220 Nineteenth-Century History in Yiddish Folksong by Ruth Rubin

FOR YOUNGER READERS

229 Nickname by Donald J. Sawyer

223 Books for Younger Readers

DEPARTMENTS

234 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

240 Contributors

Volume XV, No. 4: Winter

242 President’s Page by Marvin A. Rapp

243 An Old-Time Teller of Tales by Jared van Wagenen, Jr.

251 Moore’s St. Nick: Model and Motif by Robert H. Woodward

255 Lore of Mills and Millers by Andrus T. Valentine

264 Notes for a Yorker Dictionary of Canalese by Lionel D. Wyld

274 Funeral Customs in Colonial New York by Kenneth Scott

283 American Frontier Humor in Melville’s Typee by Bartlett C. Jones

289 The Prindle Vendue by Gertrude W. Seaman

FOR YOUNGER READERS

291 One for the Birds by Lewis A. Ondis

128 DEPARTMENTS

297 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and William G. Tyrrell

307 The Editor’s Bookshelf

311 Contributors

312 Index for Volume XV by Helen A. Fraser

320 Postscript

129 1958

Volume XIV, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 Folksong of Social Protest: A Musical Mirage by Tristam P. Coffin

11 Three Witch Stories from the Catskills by Norman Studer

15 To Make a Tattler by William Lawrence Lassiter

16 "Nigger" in the Woodpile Marvin A. Rapp

26 The Tale of the Fox by Paul Bailey

28 "Dunbar, the Murderer" by James Taylor Dunn

34 The Pompey Stone by Charles A. Huguenin

44 Norwegian Folklore Tour by Edith E. Cutting

48 Potpourri of Memories by Dorothy G. Wayman

NEIGHBORS

55 The Jersey Devil by Anne Virginia Ryan

JUNIOR LORE

60 Why the Sea Waters Taste of Salt by Adrienne Meltz

65 Books for Younger Readers

DEPARTMENTS

66 Upstate, Downstate by William G. Tyrrell and B. A. Botkin

74 The Editor’s Bookshelf

78 Contributors

Volume XIV, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page by Marvin A. Rapp

130 83 The Personality of New York City by Bayrd Still

93 Following the Folklore Road by Moritz A. Jagendorf

105 The Story of Bull Run by Donald J. Sawyer

107 The Prophetic Dream of Mrs. Clyde by James J. Flynn and Charles A. Huguenin

119 The Bee Hunt by Earl R. Hutchinson

126 Jesse Aplin Stories by Gertrude W. Seaman

134 Bay Leaves and Fried Salt by Anthony Navarra

140 "Witchdoctor Advertising": Folklore in the Modern Advertisement by Paul G. Brewster

145 A Mohawk Valley Pastime by Anson Getman

146 The Empeyville Frog by Joan Littler

148 Some Jewish Folk Habits and Superstitions by Sondra Dantzeker

DEPARTMENTS

149 The Editor’s Bookshelf

151 Books for Younger Readers

152 Upstate, Downstate by William G. Tyrrell and B. A. Botkin

159 Contributors

Volume XIV, No. 3: Autumn

161 Some of the Lives of Harold Thompson by Francis E. Mineka

169 Portrait of the Folklorist as a Young Hamiltonian by Carl Carmer

173 Harold Thompson, Professor by Israel Kaplan

177 HWT: NYSCT: BBB: NYFS by Louis C. Jones

189 We Called It “Living Lore” by B. A. Botkin

202 A Salute and a Sampling of Songs by Frank M. Warner

224 New York's Folklore on Recordings by William G. Tyrrell

131 233 Legends of the Cursed Child by Herbert Halpert

241 Linguistic Geography and the Study of Folklore by Raven I. McDavid, Jr.

Volume XIV, No. 4: Winter

264 President’s Page

265 Mrs. Gilman and the Erie Canal by Lionel D. Wyld

268 Folk Art in the New York Subway by Marie-Louise Walter

271 Obstinate Becky by Beulah E. Lawrence

276 The Rattlesnake Hunter by Julia Hull Winner

276 A Salute to Robert Burns by Catharine Walsh Peltz

284 Tall Feller by Edward Bodin

287 Mary Chilton of the Mayflower by Charles A. Huguenin

296 Following the Folklore Trail by Moritz A. Jagendorf

300 A Mohawk Valley Poem by Marvin A. Rapp

305 What's in a Name? by Ann Shaw

308 Delia's Hapless Fate by Olive Woolley Burt

310 Reader's Query

JUNIOR LORE

312 Jump Rope Songs by Iris and Alonzo Gibbs

317 Lively, Rich Experiences Ahead by Margaret Mattison Coffin

323 Books for Younger Readers

DEPARTMENTS

325 Upstate, Downstate by William G. Tyrrell and B. A. Botkin

334 The Editor’s Bookshelf

132 339 Postscript

341 Contributors

133 1957

Volume XIII, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 Washington Irving’s Use of Traditional Folklore by Sara Puryear Rodes

16 The Sacred Stone of the Oneidas by Charles A. Huguenin

23 Tales from Tug Hill by Marion Williams

32 Rhymed Advertisements by Julia Hull Winner

40 Folklore Holiday by Moritz Jagendorf

54 Old Legends Never Die by Arch Merrill

63 Upstate, Downstate by William G. Tyrrell and B. A. Botkin

72 The Editor’s Bookshelf

76 Contributors

78 Editor’s Page

80 Looking Ahead

Volume XIII, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page

83 Brooklyn Folklore by James R. Foster

92 Blue Gold of the Catskills by Harold Harris

100 Folklore in Eben Holden by Charles E. Samuels

103 The Devil Wore a Cane and Crutch by Marvin A. Rapp

110 Weather Lore of a Summer Boy by Robert Anderson

114 The Meine Library of Folklore and Humor by John T. Flanagan

NEIGHBORS

134 127 Trail of the Black Walnut by G. Elmore Reaman

132 The Little Blonde’s Wedding Gown by Henry W. Shoemaker

JUNIOR LORE

135 A Sampling of Guessing Games by Eugenia L. Millard

144 Books for Young Readers

DEPARTMENTS

145 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and William G. Tyrrell

154 The Editor’s Bookshelf

156 Editorial by Marvin A. Rapp

159 Contributors

Volume XIII, No. 3: Autumn

162 President’s Page

163 Jamestown’s Store-boats by Clayburne B. Sampson

169 Champion Horse Trader by Mrs. Loren Elwell

172 A French Naturalist Visits the Shakers by Constance D. Sherman

178 "I’m Afloat!" on the Raging Erie by Thomas F. O’Donnell

181 Washington Irving’s Interest in German Folklore by Walter A. Reichart

193 Dr. Guthrie’s Ghost by Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr.

195 "Rattling" Verses on Royal Prerogative by Kenneth Scott

203 The Ghost in the Old Bergen House by Charles A. Huguenin

208 Bringing Folk Heroes to Children by James Cloyd Bowman

215 The “Money Diggers” of Rose by Laurence A. Johnson

218 Woodstock Lore by Neva Shultis

JUNIOR LORE

135 221 Zadock Pratt’s Big Day by Moritz A. Jagendorf

223 Books for Younger Readers

EDITORIAL

224 Our Vanishing Folklore by James M. Edmunds

DEPARTMENTS

231 Upstate, Downstate by W. G. Tyrrell and B. A. Botkin

237 The Editor’s Bookshelf

237 Contributors

Volume XIII, No. 4: Winter

240 President’s Page

241 The Amazing Fox Sisters by Charles A. Huguenin

277 A Ballad for Jenny Lind by Henry Noble MacCracken

279 Grandad Raises a Pole by Robert Anderson

284 The Hermit of the Mill by Julia Hull Winner

286 Granny of the Granny Road by Kate W. Strong

288 A Whiskey Cargo and John Wilkes Booth by Marvin A. Rapp

NEIGHBORS

295 The Unconventional Ghosts by Eidola Jean Bourgaize

300 The Vanes of Boston by George F. Weston, Jr.

JUNIOR LORE

304 Some Ulster Fly-Leaf Rhymes and Games by Alf Evers

310 Books for Younger Readers

DEPARTMENTS

311 Upstate, Downstate by W. G. Tyrrell and B. A. Botkin

136 318 The Editor’s Bookshelf

320 Contributors

137 1956

Volume XII, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 Three Eyes on the Past by Louis C. Jones

14 The Dover Money Club by Kenneth Scott

21 Easter Eggs in the Triple Cities by Edith E. Cutting

25 Long-Lost Friend by Earl F. Robacker

32 Shelter Island Hoax by Charles A. Huguenin

37 The Legend of the Serpent by Harry S. Douglas

43 The Bull: A Folk Narrative by Gilbert Hagerty

54 Notes on Ship and Shore by Jeannette Edwards Rattray

61 Some Lore of Lawyersville by Jared van Wagenen, Jr.

61 An Old Hotel Register by Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr.

68 Greetings to Harold W. Thompson

70 Editor’s Bookshelf

72 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

79 Among the Contributors

Volume XII, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page

83 Folklore in the Schools by Jeanne M. Schwarz

87 Some Aspects of Comparative Jewish Folksong by Ruth Rubin

95 Old Beales and Coffee Beans by Marvin A. Rapp

106 Boonville Celebrates the Fourth by Martha B. Snow

138 112 The Legend of Martense’s Lane in Brooklyn by Charles A. Huguenin

119 A Story of the Ashokan by Harold Harris

122 The Wizard of the Ontioras by Olive Adams

125 Long Island Family Names by Jesse Merritt

127 Michigan Days of Sojourner Truth by Berenice Lowe

136 Lore from Colton by Jennie Scott Dell

140 Martin Shank Am A Hoss by Florence F. Bookhout

141 Woolgathering by Leila M. Wells

143 Three Eyes on the Past by Louis C. Jones

151 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

157 Editor’s Bookshelf

159 Contributors

Volume XII, No. 3: Autumn

162 President’s Page

163 The Word That Is Spoken Is Remembered Longer by Gerald Carson

164 The Year We Were Sick by Hattie R. Ballard

171 Tumultuous Petitioning in Ulster County, 1684 by Ronald Raymond Atkins

177 The Fascination of Folklore by Mildred R. Larson

182 The Low Green Prairies of the Sea by Harriet G. Valentine

189 Tales of a Scholar by Robert Anderson

192 Folklore from a Valley That Died by Norman Studer

200 Jump Rope Songs and Games by Riva Schiller

207 Epitaphs of Bristol Pioneers by Amo T. Kreiger

210 The Golden Saddle: A Jewish Folktale by Martha Penner

139 212 Neighbors: Patience, an Ohio Tale by David K. Webb

216 “Big Shot” Bill Greenfield by Eugenia L. Millard

221 The Tale of the Stiff Canawler by Marvin A. Rapp

225 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

234 Editor’s Bookshelf

237 Contributors

Volume XII, No. 4: Winter

240 President’s Page

241 Joice Heth Hoax by Charles A. Huguenin

257 Yiddish Riddles and Problems by Ruth Rubin

260 A Poetic Version of the "Lonesome Drum" Legend by Thomas F. O'Donnell

263 Is Jazz a Folk Art? by William Bruce Cameron

271 A. P. Sherril and his Country Emporium by Robert M. French

279 The Stranger at the Shirley Meeting by Julia Hull Winner

280 Legend of the Stone Giants by Marvin A. Rapp

283 Look for a Post! by Nancy A. Logan

287 Dream in Dutchland by Earl F. Robacker

290 Dumb Like a Fox by Olive Adams

292 The Counties of the Empire State by Anne Warner

293 Folk Life Across the Frontier by Norman H. High

301 Apple Evaporating in Wayne County by M. Samuel Adams

308 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

311 Editor’s Bookshelf

314 Contributors

140 1955

Volume XI, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

5 Folklore in Slave Narratives Before the Civil War by Mrs. Margaret Y. Jackson

20 New Jerusalem and the Public Universal Friend (Jemima Wilkinson) by Ruth Upson

34 Y. L. Cahan and Jewish Folklore by Mrs. Ruth Rubin

GLORY HOLE

46 Hunter’s Garden Association by Nathaniel R. Howell

49 The Bard of Saugerties by Ethel M. King

DEPARTMENTS

53 Neighbors (Connecticut): Waramaug and the Indian Legend of Weantinaug by Charles A. Huguenin

66 Songs: "Springfield Mountain" by Marjorie C. Loomis

69 Recipes: Nineteenth-Century Bread by Janet R. MacFarlane

73 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

Volume XI, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page

83 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

85 Three Poems on N.Y. State Folklore by Wheaton P. Webb

91 They Remember the Erie Canal by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Higbee

97 Whistles, Throttles, and Trestles: Lore of the D.L. & W. R. R. by Jean Ann Bradley

141 106 The Figurehead of Hercules at Stony Brook, L. I. by Charles A. Huguenin

116 "The Murdered Pedlar" and The Saugerties Bard by James Taylor Dunn

122 Two Traditional Games from Western New York by Mrs. Julia Hull Winner

GLORY HOLE

125 Polopel Island: Hudson River Place-Name by Dorothy Giles

128 Cranberry Again by Mrs. Barbara Hofheins Lavin

132 Another North Country Tale from Judge Brewster by Ira M. Younker

133 Lumberman’s Ballad, "Shannel’s Mill" by Robert A. Kaiser

Pioneers:

135 1. A Connecticut Moon in Otsego County by Mrs. Florence F. Bookhout

136 2. Building a Church at Greene, Chenango County by Patricia Brown

DEPARTMENTS

137 Neighbors (Massachusetts): Epitaphs from Taunton by Mrs. Marcia Wells Seely

146 The Counties (Monroe): Lore of Pittsford by Mrs. Nancy Allen Logan

150 Song: Song of the American Revolution "God Save America" from the State Library

152 Indexes: County Lore in N.Y.F.Q. by the Editor

154 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

Volume XI, No. 3: Autumn

162 President’s Page

163 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

165 Negro Tales from Eastern New York by K. Leroy Irvis

177 Italian Tales in New York City by M. Jagendorf

183 Yarns of a Catskill Woodsman by Norman Studer

142 193 Witchcraft on Long Island by Miss Kate W. Strong

196 The Child-Stealing Witch by Eugenia L. Millard

201 Lore of New York State’s Pioneers by the Editor

GLORY HOLE

205 Scottish Folklore in Brooklyn by Maureen Mazzei

208 A Loomis Anecdote by Gail Peebles

210 Folksay in Johnstown, N.Y. by Barbara Fisher

211 Moron Jokes by Myrna Mt. Pleasant

DEPARTMENTS

213 The Counties (Dutchess): The Green Fly Monster by Augusta Knapp Osborne

217 Folklore in the Schools (Seventh Grade): Proverbial Comparisons and Expressions from Rural Life by Carlos de Zafra, Jr.

219 Songs: Two Ballads of the French-Indian War, 1763 Transcribed by Louise Hasbrouck Zimm

224 Recommendations of Recent Books, Articles, and Recordings by the Editors

229 Food and Recipes: Some Food Proverbs by Janet R. MacFarlane

231 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

239 Contributors

Volume XI, No. 4: Winter

No issue published during this period.

143 1954

Volume X, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

4 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

9 Folklore Figures of Rochester, N.Y. by W. Stephen Thomas

18 Folkways of Old Broome Co.: The Crocker Manuscript by Edith E. Cutting

30 N. Y. Folklore Society, Inc., By-Laws

35 Irish Lore from N. Y. State’s Capital District by the Editor

GLORY HOLE

40 Lore from Setauket, L.I. by Miss Kate W. Strong

42 A Long Island Whale Story by Nathaniel R. Howell

45 On the Erie Canal by Georgiana Prtichard

47 A Grace from the North Country by A. T. Shorey

48 Old Alb Wins a Bet by Arthur C. Parker

50 A Pioneer Tale of the Finger Lakes by Mrs. Mary C. Puffer

DEPARTMENTS

52 Songs: "Gypsy Davy" (Child, 200) by Ruth C. Wright

54 Epitaphs: New York Stories in Stone by Charles L. Wallis

57 Neighbors: Lore of Worcester, Mass. by Jane Kimberly

68 Review: Dorothy C. Hogner’s Herbs, From The Garden by Janet R. MacFarlane

70 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

80 Contributors

144 Volume X, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page

84 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

85 Dancing in New York City, 1687-1887 by Margot Mayo

95 Long Island Women and Whaling by Jeanette Edwards Rattray

103 What Does It Mean?—The Lore of Secret Languages by Eugenia L. Millard

111 Lore of Cranberry Lake, Adirondacks by Atwood Manley

115 Ballads and Tales of Blue Mt. Lake, Adirondacks by Mrs. Ann King Wheeler

123 The Ghost and I by Louis C. Jones

127 Schoolcraft on the Iroquois, I by Mrs. Hilah Foote Newton

GLORY HOLE

133 A Contemporary Ballad-Maker in the Hudson Valley by Peter Seeger

DEPARTMENTS

135 Recipes: If Your Oven Be Slack by Janet R. MacFarlane

141 The Counties: Lore from Erin, Chemung County by James L. Smith

141 Songs: "Brave Wolfe" by Anne and Frank Warner

231 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

Volume X, No. 3: Autumn

162 President’s Page

164 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

145 165 Polish Tales of the Supernatural Collected in Albany, N.Y by the Rev. Cornelius J. Laskowski, c.s.c.

176 Schoolcraft on the Iroquois, Part II by Mrs. Hilah Foote Newton

GLORY HOLE

189 Directory of New York Dancing Masters by Margot Mayo

193 Family Tales from Chenango County by Shirley Copeland

195 The Loomis Gang Again by Bruce Jarvis Dew

DEPARTMENTS

198 Folklore in Schools and Colleges: Collections from the Oswego State College:

198 1. Fort Ontario’s Ghost by Ethel Shepard

201 2. Oswego County Epitaphs by Dave Perrett

202 3. Two Tales from the Bronx by Diane Glick

204 4. Lore of Sherburne, Chenango County by Leona Adams

208 5. Joe Gokey of Tupper Lake by Theresa Trudell

211 6. Predicting the Weather by M. Leubner

213 Songs: "The Foggy Dew" (Irish) by Norman Cazden

218 Recipes: New York Pastry by Janet R. MacFarlane

226 Proverbs: Sayings from Westfield, Chautauqua County by Mrs. Jane Thompson Mead

228 Recommendations of Recent Books, Articles, and Recordings by the Editors

223 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

240 Contributors

Volume X, No. 4: Winter

242 President’s Page

244 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

146 245 Dutch Lore in Holland and at Castleton, N.Y. by Louise Van Nederynen Atteridg

266 Danish Lore in Denmark and at Troy, N.Y. by Mildred R. Larson

274 Grandmother Remembers Switzerland by Virginia White

279 The Ballad of Brave Paulding and The Spy in the Ramapo Valley by Anne Lutz

285 Who Was Hiawatha? by Arthur C. Parker

GLORY HOLE

289 The Leather Man Again by Leah A. Strong

291 More Long Island Memories by Miss Kate W. Strong

293 Stuffle Denmark and the Bear by Mrs. Betty Denmark Morris

295 Jonahs on Modern Whale Factory Ships by J. A. B. Athey

297 Alf’s Tough Oxen by Arthur C. Parker

DEPARTMENTS

298 The Counties: Judge Brewster’s Tales of Essex County by Mrs. Barbara Way Hunter

308 Songs: "Chanuke, O Chanuke" (Jewish) by Mrs. Ruth Rubin

310 Folklore in the Schools: The Teaching of Folklore with Local History by the Editor

314 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

321 Index to Vol. X

147 1953

Volume IX, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 President’s Page

ARTICLES

5 Joe Call, the Lewis Giant by C. Eleanor Hall

28 Hell’s Bells and Panther Tracks: Lore of Western Sullivan County by Alvin W. Schillinger

40 Tales from the Bristol Hills by George McGill Hayes

GLORY HOLE

47 A John Brown Ballad by Israel Kaplan

51 The Vanishing Hitch-hiker Again by Mildred R. Larson

53 Uncle Bill Hallock’s Yarn by Nathaniel R. Howell

DEPARTMENTS

55 Folklore in the Schools: Additional List of Theses, Albany and Cornell by the Editor

56 Archives: The Porter North-Country Collection by Mrs. Marjorie L. Porter

59 G.I. Lore: Lore of the Fifteenth Air Force by Edwin E. Koch

71 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

Volume IX, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page

83 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

85 “Pants” Lawrence of the Adirondacks by Donnal V. Smith

94 The Curtis Collection of Songs, I by Otis F. Curtis, Jr.

148 104 Stories: Origins and Informants? by M. Jagendorf

104 Greek Lore from Syracuse, NY by Mrs. Priscilla Miller Nichols

118 "Churching:" Troubled Times in Trumansburg by Margaret T. DeLong

GLORY HOLE

123 The Horse-Car Poetry by Flora H. Dann

127 Bear Swap by Alice Crossgrove

129 A Southern Version of the Dream Contest by Raven I. McDavid, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

133 Folklore in the Schools: Collecting in Cortland by Mrs. Marion C. Thompson

142 Epitaphs: Inscriptions Collected by a Cornell Class by the Editor

153 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

Volume IX, No. 3: Autumn

162 President’s Page

164 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

165 The Spiels of New York by B. A. Botkin

176 The Rich Lore of a Rich Hotel, the Plaza by M. Jagendorf

183 Westchester Square, Bronx, and Old St. Peter’s Church by Joan V. Schultz

190 Sunday Samp on Long Island by Jeanette Edwards Rattray

196 North Fork Footnotes, Long Island by Frank Warner

201 The Leather Man, Westchester County by Jean Cowles

GLORY HOLE

211 Two Long Island Shipwrecks by Ruth Bader

216 A Brooklyn Street-Game by Israel Kaplan

149 218 The Hermit of South Salem, Westchester County by Suzanne Libby

220 Whaling Song from Sag Harbor by L. R. Tuttle

DEPARTMENTS

221 Epitaphs: Hartsdale Canine Cemetery, Westchester County by Beverly Fuller

229 Recent Books Recommended by the Editors

231 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

240 Contributors

Volume IX, No. 4: Winter

243 President’s Page

ARTICLES

245 Der Colonie Nieu Nederland by Eckford J. deKay

255 Chanukkah, a Jewish Holiday by Ruth Rubin

261 The Christmas Season in Poland by Irene H. Molski

268 Lore from a Swedish Grandfather by June Jacobi Gillin

273 The Curtis Collection of Songs, Part II. Notes by the Editor

282 The Saga of Joe Magarac by Hyman Richman

GLORY HOLE

294 The Split Dog by M. Jagendorf

DEPARTMENTS

296 Festivals: Genundowa, at Canandaigua Lake by Martha A. Parker

299 Folklore in the Schools: Adult Education at Dolgeville by Mrs. Eleanor Franz

307 Neighbors: "May Paul et le Vieux Charlot," A Pennysylvania-Huguenot Tale by Henry W. Shoemaker

314 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

150 1952

Volume VIII, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 President’s Page

ARTICLES

5 The Devil in York State by Louis C. Jones

20 Irish Lore Collected in Schenectady by W. Stuart Rogers

31 Pinkster Ode, Albany, 1803. Copied by Geraldine R. Pleat and Agnes N. Underwood

46 Children’s Charms and Oracles, Part II by Eugenia L. Millard

GLORY HOLE

58 How the Monkey Lost His Tail, A Chinese Story by Hsin-min Wu

60 The Diabolical Hat, A Polish Tale from Amsterdam, N.Y. by Mrs. Marion Moore Coleman

DEPARTMENTS

65 The Counties: Lore from Schenectady County by Neil B. Reynolds

73 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

80 Book Review: Botkin’s A Treasury of Western Folklore by Levette J. Davidson

Volume VIII, No. 2: Summer

82 President’s Page

83 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

85 Birthmarked Destiny by Wheaton P. Webb

92 Huckleberry Charlie and Nick the Fiddler by Dean Frederic Bock

104 A Fateful Choice, A Polish Tale by Charles Allan Baretski

151 111 The Devil in the Writings of Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe by James J. Lynch

GLORY HOLE

132 Tale of the Shiftless Husband (Dutch) by Agnes Scott Smith

133 Werwolves in Pennsylvania Wilds, Once More by Henry W. Shoemaker

135 A Chenango County Coffin by Mary S. Herrick

DEPARTMENTS

137 Folklore in the Schools: Johnson City High School by Edith E. Cutting

143 Neighbors: New Hampshire and Maine: The Isles of Shoals by Estelle Jane Paige

153 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

160 Contributors

Volume VIII, No. 3: Autumn

162 Editor’s Page

163 President’s Page

ARTICLES

165 Back to the Blanket: Lore of Steuben County by Doret Meeker

191 Street-Cries of American Chimney Sweepers by George L. Phillips

199 On Rumpus Hill by Martha Anne Parker

GLORY HOLE

206 "Steal Not This Book" by James Taylor Dunn

209 Some "Characters" of the Mohawk Valley by Dorothy DeAngelis

211 Fiddle-Tunes from Orange County, New York by Lettie Osborn

215 David Hannum of Homer by Shirley T. Williams

217 "Embalmed Alive": A Developing Urban Ghost Tale by J. Russell Reaver

152 DEPARTMENTS

221 Proverbs: Proverb Lore in American Life and Speech by Margaret M. Bryant

227 Neighbors: Kentucky: A Route of the Underground Railroad, Pennsylvania and New York by William McKinnon

230 Folklore in the Schools: Theses on Folklore, Albany State College and Cornell University. Compiled by the Editor

233 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

Volume VIII, No. 4: Winter

242 Editor’s Page

244 President’s Page

ARTICLES

245 The Story of a Catskill Ballad by Norman Cazden

267 A Delanson Manuscript of Songs by Harry Oster

283 Mother Lavender and Her Holiday Dinners by James P. Francis

291 The Philadelphia Mummers: A New Year Pageant by Robert A. Glah

301 “Whirling” and Applejack in the Catskills by Norman Studer

GLORY HOLE

306 A Ballad of Frozen Men by Irma May Griffin

309 Holidays in the Ukraine by Olga Myslichuk

311 Czechoslavakian Holiday Lore in Onondaga County by Mildred Buso

DEPARTMENTS

313 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

153 1951

Volume VII, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

YORK STATE FARM LORE. Selected, edited and written by Edith E. Cutting

4 Introduction

5 The Farm

9 Livestock

28 Weather Lore

43 Planting

51 Harvesting

57 The Year’s Special Jobs

64 Farmers’ Songs

75 Informants

DEPARTMENTS

78 UPSTATE, DOWNSTATE by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

Volume VII, No. 2: Summer

90 Editor’s Page

91 President’s Page

ARTICLES

93 Folklore: A Passport to Pan-America by Richard Lee and Paul Walters

108 Rattlesnake Lore of the Catskills by Alf Evers

154 116 Squatters of the Storm Country by Richard M. Herson

125 Merry Tales from Turkey by Barbara Wilson

131 Lore of Montgomery County by Barbara Wright

GLORY HOLE

141 How Came Haih! by Arthur C. Parker

142 More Light On The Ballad of “James Bird” by Mary Elizabeth King

DEPARTMENTS

145 Neighbors: The Werwolf in Pennsylvania by Henry W. Shoemaker

156 Inquiries by A. T. Shorey and Mrs. Nathan Van Patten

158 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

165 Book Review: Alan Lomax’ Mister Jelly Roll by Marshall W. Stearns

167 Other Publications: Brief Notices

Volume VII, No. 3: Autumn

170 President’s Page

171 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

173 The Folk Vocabulary of New York State by Raven I. McDavid, Jr.

193 Lore from the Military Tract: Camillus, Onondaga County by Marilyn MacDonald

205 Irving’s Sunnyside by Barrie Rabson

217 Indian Folklore in the Fiction of James Kirke Paulding by Floyd C. Watkins

GLORY HOLE

225 Sojourner Truth in Syracuse by Lester G. Wells

226 Indians and Pioneers of the Syracuse Region by Rosalyn Shapero

DEPARTMENTS

155 229 Folklore in the Schools: Is There A Legend in Your Closet? by Mrs. Helen M. McCadden

236 Neighbors: Kentucky: A Metrical Version of the Wonderful Hunt by Arthur K. Moore

241 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

Volume VII, No. 4: Winter

250 President’s Page

251 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

253 Children’s Charms and Oracles by Eugenia L. Millard

Christmas Lore:

269 A Swedish Christmas by Vivan E. Nicander

272 "Janneying" in Newfoundland by Mrs. Elizabeth V. Melchen

274 Pennsylvania Yuletide by Dorothy Krisher

276 Boney Quillen of the Catskills by Norman Studer

283 Music in the Valleys by Harry S. Douglass

291 Folklore Keeps the Past Alive by Arthur Palmer Hudson

GLORY HOLE

295 Folk Remedies in Andes by Mrs. Lovisa V. Smith

299 Another Werwolf by Henry W. Shoemaker

300 A Jail Song by Emma W. Piehl

302 “Medicine Jack” by Mrs. Ruth C. H. Murray

304 Tall Tales from Oneida County by Henry S. Kernan

DEPARTMENTS

306 The Counties: Lore from Chautauqua County by Flora H. Dann

319 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

156 Reviews:

325 Boyer, Buffington, and Yoder, Songs Along the Mahantongo by Samuel P. Bayard

327 Wood’s Holt! T’Other Way! by Janice Neal

157 1950

Volume VI, No. 1: Spring

2 President’s Page

3 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

5 Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl by Corinne Brown Galvin

21 Jewish Tales by Herbert S. Meltzer

31 Old Times in Alfred by Jane Wurz

37 A Day at Sag Harbor by Jeanne U. Schmidt

GLORY HOLE

44 A Mohawk Adoption by Aren Akweks

DEPARTMENTS

47 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

61 Book Reviews

63 Contributors

Volume VI, No. 2: Summer

66 Editor’s Page

67 President’s Page

ARTICLES

69 Chinese Trickster Tales by Lienfung Li

82 The Ghost of the Buckhorn by Henry W. Shoemaker

85 The Mysterious Underground of Cattaraugus by Arthur C. Parker

90 The Jumping Bass of Oak Orchard Creek by Helen E. Allen

158 GLORY HOLE

95 "Lemonade," A Children’s Game from New York City by Dan G. Hoffman

97 "King Tamany," A Song by Thomas P. Haviland

DEPARTMENTS

99 Folklore in the Schools by Dorothy Mills Howard

108 Community Folk Festival of the Triple Cities by Edith E. Cutting

113 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

125 Book Reviews

128 Contributors

Volume VI, No. 3: Autumn

130 President’s Page

131 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

133 Italian Werewolves by Louis C. Jones

138 The Spit and Whittle Club at Dryden by Elizabeth Sadd

143 The Lore of the Building Trade by Ellen S. Lawrence

154 The Flying Nightmares by Sam Keith

GLORY HOLE

160 Northeastern and Western Square Dances by Catherine Welch

164 A Vampire of Seneca Lake by George Alfred Hazen

165 Aunt Carrie and the Hop-Pickers by Neil van Allen

DEPARTMENTS

168 Neighbors: Lore of Lake County, Ohio by Carolyn Miller

195 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

159 206 Book Reviews: Speck’s Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House by Arthur C. Parker

Back Cover Contributors

Volume VI, No. 4: Winter

210 Editor’s Page

211 President’s Page

ARTICLES

213 Carnival and Circus by Sidney L. Freeman

221 Folklore of The Netherlands by Paul Mok

234 A Trip on the Northern Canal by James Taylor Dunn

240 Indian Tales from Western New York by Doris Eggen

246 Polish Lore from Eastern New York by Mrs. Marion Moore Coleman

GLORY HOLE

251 Folklore from Negroes in Ithaca by Mrs. Corinne Brown Galvin

254 A Philadelphia Variant of the Hitchhiking Ghost by R. W. G. Vail

255 "Round Cape Horn" by N. H. Howell

258 Anecdotes About Hitler by Walter Herrmann

DEPARTMENTS

260 Neighbors: The D. and H. Canal, Pennsylvania and New York by Dorothea O. Benner

268 Upstate, Downstate by B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell

279 Book Review: Mrs. Stella B. Brookes’s Joel Chandler Harris: Folklorist by Louis C. Jones

280 Contributors

160 1949

Volume V, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 President’s Page

ARTICLES

5 Lore of Lisle by Ruth Osborn Gulling

18 Hop-Picking Days by Clayton E. Risley

25 The Life, Deeds, and Teachings of Tammany, the Famous Indian Chief by A. A. Hartwell

31 The Famous Anneke Jans by David V. Bennett

GLORY HOLE

51 Three Ballads of the Donora Smog by Dan G. Hoffman

59 Henry Denny, Storyteller of the Highlands by Chester A. Smith

DEPARTMENTS

65 Epitaphs by Harold W. Thompson

Back Cover City Billet by Elaine Lambert Lewis

Back Cover Contributors

Volume V, No. 2: Summer

74 President’s Page

75 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

77 Songs from the Hudson Valley by Harold Nestler

112 Last Gasp of Sensaton of the New York Central by Jeremy Taylor

128 Tales of the Catskill Bear Hunters by Harold W. Thompson

133 From the Tuscarora Reservaton by Elma Jones

161 146 Phantom Ships of the Northeast Coast of North America by Ralph deS. Childs

GLORY HOLE

165 Early Rimed Ads by James Taylor Dunn

170 Traditonal Barnyard Calls by Warren George Sherwood

171 Contributors

Volume V, No. 3: Autumn

174 President’s Page

175 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

177 Prisoner of War by George Arthur Diamond

196 Rough Days on the Tioga Frontier by Crede D. Hagerty

202 Ballads of Disasters on the Great Lakes by Robert C Johnston

211 Songs, Riddles, and Tales of Saratoga County by Adda Ann Dunn

GLORY HOLE

219 Tales from Chautauqua County by Howard P. Beebe

222 The Aftereffects of a Solemn Prayer Meeting by Eliza Foote

226 The Origin of the Chickadee by George S. Snyderman

228 The Hobo News by George Pager

DEPARTMENTS

230 Proverbs and Sayings by Harold W. Thompson

171 Contributors

Volume V, No. 4: Winter

238 President’s Page

162 239 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

241 The Strange Case of Dr. Came and the Sleeping Man by Edmund S. Carpenter

257 Love and Marriage in York State Lore by Prudence Allen

268 Merry Greek Tales from Buffalo by Ernest S. Mathews

276 Lore from Leitrim Stratford by Jeffers-Johnson

GLORY HOLE

287 Ghosts in Widow Mary’s Place by Eileen Thomas

291 The Grave of Sam Patch by David Coapman

DEPARTMENTS

296 Proverbs and Sayings by Harold W. Thompson

300 Contributors

163 1948

Volume IV, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 President’s Page

ARTICLES

5 Round Went the Album by Charles Francis Potter

15 Service Lore: Army Vocabulary by Joseph B. Roulier

32 Music of the Catskills by Herbert Haufrecht and Norman Cazden

46 Renzie Dow in Jersey by Henry Charlton Beck

50 Wild Animals of Southern Erie County by Ethelyn Weller

54 The Saga of Old Tug by Anna M. Rieppel

61 Indians and Tavern Tales of Staten Island by Vernon Boyce Hampton

DEPARTMENTS

66 Epitaphs Harold W. Thompson

71 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

Volume IV, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page

83 President’s Page

ARTICLES

85 The Tragedy of the “North Woods” by Eleanor Waterbury Franz

97 The Baron Munchausen by Patricia D. Curts

109 Letters to an Ethnologist’s Children by William N. Fenton

121 Where Lake and River Meet by Rowena B. Peterson

164 GLORY HOLE

136 Folklore in Rochester

138 Parodies on Nursery Rhymes by Philip D. Jordan

DEPARTMENTS

140 Folklore in the Schools: For College and Adult Education by Harold W. Thompson

144 Book Review: Perry’s Underground Empire: Wonders and Tales of New York Caves by P. Schuyler Miller

146 Epitaphs by Harold W. Thompson

150 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

156 Contributors

Volume IV, No. 3: Autumn

158 Editor’s Page

159 President’s Page

ARTICLES

161 French Beliefs in Clinton County by Pearl Hamelin Augar

172 A York State Songbag: The Douglass-Stevens Manuscript by Edith Cutting

182 Down Ulster Way by Agnes Scott Smith

195 Heroic Settlers of the Upper Susquehanna by Janice C. Neal

207 Half a Dozen Repeating Games by Dan G. Hoffman

GLORY HOLE

212 Log Cabin Days by George McGill Hayes

218 Informant: George Washington

DEPARTMENTS

219 Folklore in the Schools: For College and Adult Education by Harold W. Thompson

226 Correspondence

165 227 Epitaphs by Marion C. Thompson

235 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

241 Contributors

Volume IV, No. 4: Winter

246 Editor’s Page

247 President’s Page

ARTICLES

249 I Saw It by Emelyn E. Gardner

256 Funnel Country by Edmund Burke

268 Jesse Cornplanter's Tall Tales by Horace P. Beck

278 Putnam County by Robert V. Williams

GLORY HOLE

296 Oyster Pond Point Disaster by Jesse Merritt

298 Oh Take Your Taxes Home, King George by Frances Dowling

DEPARTMENTS

299 Epitaphs by Harold W. Thompson

301 Folklore in the Schools by Harold W. Thompson

310 City Billet by Elaine Lambert Lewis

319 Contributors

166 1947

Volume III, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 President’s Page

ARTICLES

5 Yorker Yarns of Yore by Richard M. Dorson

28 The Ballad of the Butcher Boy in the Ramapo Mountains by Anne Lutz

36 Ma and Pa Pitt by A. T. Shorey

41 The Wizard of Remsen by Millard F. Roberts

48 The Yorker’s Folklore Contest by Mary E. Cunningham

GLORY HOLE

57 Why “Doodletown”? by J. C. Storms

60 Seumas O’Connor’s Bagpipes by Laura M. Waffner

DEPARTMENTS

62 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

72 Folklore in the Schools: Folklore Bibliography for Younger Children by Bernice C. Cary

78 Review: Dorson’s Jonathan Draws the Long Bow by B. A. Botkin

81 Farm Lore: Herb Remedies by Catherine M. Relihan

85 Correspondence

88 Contributors

Volume III, No. 2: Summer

90 Editor’s Page

91 President’s Page

167 ARTICLES

93 Our Forefathers Tackle an Epidemy—The Cholera of 1832 by Samuel Hopkins Adams

102 The Jersey Devil and Other Legends of the Jersey Shore by Henry Charlton Beck

107 Cave Lore of the Taconics by Clay Perry

115 Ghosts of the Schenectady Area by Duane Featherstonhaugh

124 Peter Parrott and His Songs by Edith Cutting

134 A Snake Tale from Northern New York by John Witthoft

GLORY HOLE

138 Matthias the Imposter by Robert B. Pattison

141 Celebration of July 4, 1811 by Ethelyn Weller

145 A Ballad of Salmon River by Frank Bowman

148 The Strange Disappearance of George Pierce by Howard C. Timmerman

150 Blues in Manhattan by Edgar B. O’Hara

153 John Duncan’s Bear by George W. Walter

DEPARTMENTS

155 Folklore in the Schools: Selected Bibliography for High School Students by Eugenia L. Millard

164 Correspondence

166 Farm Lore: Herb Remedies by Catherine Relihan

170 City Billet by Elaine Lambert Lewis

180 Contributors

Volume III, No. 3: Autumn

186 Editor’s Page

187 President’s Page

ARTICLES

168 189 Slovak Wedding Customs by Alvena V. Seckar

205 Erie Canal Lore by Hazel A. McCombs

213 Current Events in New York City Children’s Folklore by Carl Withers

223 Around the Narghile: Lore of Old Syria by Marion Hanna

231 "Jones’s Boys They Built A Mill" by Percy M. Van Epps

237 'Ren Dow and the Devil Harry by M. MacDougal

242 Hanged in Three Places, Buried in Two by Henry Charlton Beck

GLORY HOLE

246 A Twist of Twisters

248 Landon’s Ould Dog and Hogmanay Fair by Frank Eames

252 The Lost Treasure of the Oneidas by George W. Walter

254 Three Short Tales

DEPARTMENTS

256 Farm Lore: Wart Remedies

259 Correspondence

261 Folklore in the Schools: A High School Folklore Magazine by William J. Reedy

266 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

278 Contributors

Volume III, No. 4: Winter

282 President’s Page

283 Editor’s Page

ARTICLES

285 Folklore from G. I. Joe Agnes by Nolan Underwood

298 The Passing Bell No Longer Tolls by Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.

169 302 Tales from a Mountain Homestead by Alice Willis

312 The Banished Wife and Maid Without Hands by Frank G. Speck

GLORY HOLE

320 Proverb Collecting in New Jersey by Oral S. Coad

323 The Joys of Mary by Edith Cutting

325 Stregas, Ghosts and Werewolves by Dan G. Hoffman

329 John Darling References by M. Jagendorf

DEPARTMENTS

330 Folklore in the Schools: Folk Beliefs: Current Report by Helen M. McCadden

340 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

353 Epitaphs

257 Two Catches and a Tall One

359 Contributors

170 1946

Volume II, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

3 President’s Page

ARTICLES

5 The Huddleston Murder by Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.

15 Yiddish Folksongs in New York City by Ruth Rubin

24 Cayuga Midwinter Festival by John Witthoft

40 Hudson River Legends of Captain Kidd by Willard Hallam Bonner

GLORY HOLE

52 “Blue Mountain Lake” and “Barbara Allen” by Helen Hartness Flanders

59 Death and the Old Man by Karl M. Elish

60 Balladry of 1812 by John C. Pearson

61 Albany County Witch Lore by William K. Laidlaw

63 West Point Slang in 1878 by C. Grant Loomis

64 More Schoolhouses

DEPARTMENTS

66 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

71 Folklore in the Schools: A Handy Guide to Square Dances by Harriet Boetcher

74 Farm Lore: Insects, Animals, and the Weather

77 Review: In the Hudson Highlands by P. Schuyler Miller

78 Let Me Ask You . . .

79 Contributors

171 Volume II, No. 2: Summer

82 Editor’s Page

83 President’s Page

ARTICLES

85 Aggressive Humor on the East Branch by Herbert Halpert

98 The Wart by Wheaton Phillips Webb

106 The Elixir Spring of Kiantone by Edmund S. Carpenter

120 The Beckwith Murder Case by Warren Walker

130 When the Bells Tolled by George W. Walter

GLORY HOLE

137 Union College Ghost by James G. Shaw, Jr.

139 An Italian Version of “Maid Freed from the Gallows” by Elvira Francello

141 Two Salt-Sea Tall Tales by Edna van Popering, Eloise Worth, and Sue Hildreth

DEPARTMENTS

143 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

148 Folklore in the Schools: A Student Guide to Collecting Folklore by Louis C. Jones

154 Review: Bayard’s Hill Country Tunes by Elaine Lambert Lewis

156 Farm Lore: Herb Remedies

158 Contributors

Volume II, No. 3: Autumn

162 Editor’s Page

163 President’s Page

ARTICLES

172 165 The Dutch Had a Word for It by Agnes Scott Smith

174 Tales of Buried Treasure in Rochester by Dorothy Dengler

182 French Louie by Harvey L. Dunham

191 The Sea Serpent of Silver Lake by Herbert J. Mawley

197 The Orange County Onion Harvest Festivals by Betty Jane Wright

205 The Fifteenth of Redford by Marjorie L. Porter

GLORY HOLE

209 Si Brown and Big Dick by Edgar B. O’Hara

213 The Ghostly Priest Who Says Mass by James O’Beirne

214 The Elm Tree Grave at Woodstock by Arnold H. Bellows

217 Town Line and the Confederacy by Alma L. Pope

219 Proverbs and Sayings

DEPARTMENTS

221 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

228 Folklore in the Schools: Collecting by Seventh Graders by Barbara K. Walker

257 Record Review: Frank Warner’s Songs of the Hudson Valley by Carl Carmer

240 Contributors

Volume II, No. 4: Winter

243 Editor’s Page

245 President’s Page

ARTICLES

246 Scenes of My Childhood by Parker (Paddy) McGoff

252 Living Lore on the New York City Writers’ Project by B. A. Botkin

GLORY HOLE

173 264 The Kidnappers of Charley Ross by Robert Ryder

266 A West Indian Ballad from Harlem by Leona Brady

269 Una Ban: An Irish Song and Story by James O’Beirne

273 The Oven of the Seven Montelli by Alexander J. Garofalo

276 Two Urban Folk Tales by Samuel Gallant, Irwin Shapiro

DEPARTMENTS

278 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

286 Folklore in the Schools: Folklore in College English Classes by Margaret M. Bryant

297 Review: Hewitt’s Those Were The Days by George W. Wakefield

300 Minutes

303 Contributors

174 1945

Volume I, No. 1: Spring

2 Editor’s Page

4 President’s Page

ARTICLES

5 Witches in the Cooper Country by Wheaton P. Webb

21 Sticks and Stones: Children’s Teasing Rhymes by Eugenia L. Millard

33 Horses and Steamboats on Champlain by Hilah Foote Newton

OLD SONGS AND BALLADS

45 "The Bishop of Canterbury" by Douglass Manuscript

48 "The Cherry Tree Carol" by Edith E. Cutting

49 "My Name is Charles Guiteau" by Charlotte Coryell

FOLKLORE NEWS IN NEW YORK STATE

50 The People’s Sayings: How You Can Help Record Them by Margaret M. Bryant

57 "Folk Songs for the Seven Million" by Elaine Lambert Lewis

59 Winter Folklore Conference by Norman Studer

60 Weather Lore: Winter Quarter

62 Let Me Ask You ...

63 The Authors

Volume I, No. 2: Summer

66 Editor’s Page

68 President’s Page

ARTICLES

175 69 Catskill Darling: Facts About a Folk Hero by Moritz Jagendorf

83 Sorting Our Tall Tales by Eleanor Hayeslip

GLORY HOLE

88 "A Driller’s Dream" by Margaret Flanagan

99 "Mary Neil" by Thomas Vincent Maloney

101 An Italian Rip Van Winkle by Sylvia Trop

10 A Boundary-Moving Ghost by William Marion Miller

107 "A Black River Thaw" by Genevieve Smithling

109 Two Jingles by Lesley Brower

110 A Fairy Tale from Poland by Helen Burczak

DEPARTMENTS

112 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

115 Review: Cutting’s Lore of an Adirondack County by C. Eleanor Hall

117 Folklore in the Schools: An Eleventh-Grade Unit by Jean B. Dusenbury

121 Folklore Collections: Vassar by Kenneth Wiggins Porter

123 Weather Lore: Spring Quarter by Audrey Boughton

126 Let Me Ask You …

127 The Authors

Volume I, No. 3: Autumn

130 Editor’s Page

131 President’s Page

ARTICLES

133 Sam Patch, Jumping Hero by Richard M. Dorson

152 Strange Names of School Districts by Dorothy Guy Smith

176 Two New York Folk Festivals:

160 Catskill Folk Festival by Norman Studer

167 Ticonderoga’s Indian Festival by Jane M. Lape

THE GLORY HOLE

174 Irish Sayings and Irish Fairies by Catherine Kelly

178 Folk Cures of New York State by Mrs. F. W. Crandall - Lois Gannett

181 More Bitter than Death: A Jewish Exemplum by Rabbi Solomon I. Moseson

DEPARTMENTS

183 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

186 Folklore in the Schools: A Unit - Grades 9 to 12 by Emma C. Donk

189 Weather Lore: Summer Quarter by Audrey Boughton

191 Let Me Ask You ...

192 The Authors

Volume I, No. 4: Winter

194 Editor’s Page

195 President’s Page

ARTICLES

197 Bird Lore of New York State by Phebe Allen Travis

205 Niagara Falls and Cayuga Indian Medicine by F. Staniford Speck

209 Wa’n’t That Remarkable! by Janice Neal

221 Andrew’s Bank Deposit by Percy M. Van Epps

224 Rafting on the Allegheny by Maud D. Brooks

THE GLORY HOLE

231 The Bill Collector: A Chinese Ghost Tale from New York City by Joseph Wang

177 233 A Shaker Broadside by Harmon Lockrow

236 Hungarian Lying-Contest Tales about America by Herbert Halpert

238 Troy Street Cries by Henry F. Albrecht

239 Johnny on the Pony: A New York State Game by Paul G. Brewster

DEPARTMENTS

240 City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City by Elaine Lambert Lewis

244 Folklore in the Schools: A Tenth Grade Tour by Doris Sanford Arnold

248 Review: Christman’s Tin Horns and Calico by Kenneth Wiggins Porter

251 Weather Lore: Fall Quarter by Audrey Boughton

253 Let Me Ask You …

256 The Authors

178