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First Timers and Old Timers [electronic resource]

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Title First Timers and Old Timers [electronic resource] : The Texas Folklore Society Fire Burns On / edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press
Creation Date c2012
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content "Back in the day" : reflections on times passed: Use It up. Wear It out. Make It do. Do without / Linda Wolff
Growing up in the goat pen / Lora B. Davis Garrison
The wheels of our lives / Scott Hill Bumgardner
Back then / Archie P. McDonald
I'm here to tell you!: family vignettes from the Depression era / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan
A Czech way of business / Lori Najvar
Some recollections of defining events / Al Lowman -- Texas music: "Hell in Texas": crossing between sin and salvation in Texas folk songs / Ken Baake
Buddy Holly, Beethoven, and Lubbock in the 1950s / Paul H. Carlson
Waltz across Texas: an exploration of the music in the German and Czech dance halls of South Central Texas and the bands that played the music / Carol Bolland
The music of Ruby Allmond / Jerry B. Lincecum
Songs of the Depression / Francis Edward Abernethy
"July 4, 1976": a folktale from the Helotes settlement / John Igo -- Legends in their time
and ours still: Frances Lane and Mattie Felker: two legendary ladies of Texas / Mike Felker and Liz Brandt
The evolution of a family epic / Donna Ingham
Lon Goldstein and the Gainesville owls / Kit Chase
Russell Lee's Texas photographs / Carla Ellard
Americo Paredes, border anthropologist / Manuel F. Medrano
Sages, pundits, and spinners / James Ward Lee
James and John: wild and crazy apostles of the TFS West / Jim Harris -- Everything but the kitchen sink : ghosts, legends, language, and other lore: ghost stories and legends of Old San Patricio / J. Michael Sullivan
The widow's revenge: the genesis and development of a tale in Bell County / Kenneth W. Davis
Tip to tip: legendary Texas Longhorns / Henry Wolff, Jr.
The Aurora airship crash of 1897 / Jo Virgil
The hidfolk of Texas / Claire Campbell
Curses! ("!?*#ZX?@") / Jean Granberry Schnitz
Monsters in Texas / J. Rhett Rushing
The folklore of plants: growing up in the Hill Country / Acayla Haile
High art versus the oral tradition / Gene Young
The Hispanic shaman / Charles B. Martin.
Series Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
68
Extent xi, 353 p. : ill.
Language English
National Library system number 997010708807005171
MARC RECORDS
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