Record #:

5300

Author(s):

Jones, Ron

Abstract:

Jones discusses storytelling in North Carolina, the transmission of traditional tales, and a number of storytellers, including three who are internationally known: Ray Hicks, Jackie Torrence, and Donald Davis.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Spring 2002, p7-11, por

Subject(s):

Storytellers

Record #:

36032

Author(s):

Danforth, Margaret Marion

Abstract:

Mrs. Grace Cooper was the subject of the author’s interviews due to her great skill with storytelling. Two genres of stories came out of these interviews, narratives describing her life and her account of her journey to heaven when she nearly died during surgery.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 43 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1996, p12-46 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Storytellers; Personal narratives

Record #:

35963

Author(s):

Whisnant, David E.

Abstract:

For more than 50 years, Archie Green made North Carolina a special focus for much of the political-cultural work he chose to do in his quest to comprehend the lives of ordinary people, and to gain appropriate recognition for their expressive culture.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994, p67-69 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk singers; Storytellers

Record #:

35965

Author(s):

Conway, Cecelia

Abstract:

For over ninety years, Julie Jarrell Lyons shared mountain folkways in the forms of singing, dancing, and telling tales.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994, p73-75 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Traditional music; Storytellers; Folklife

Record #:

35966

Author(s):

Sobol, Joseph Daniel

Abstract:

By extending his familial oral narratives to the contemporary revival scent of folktales, Donald Davis made himself a creative artist that moved outside the boundaries of folk traditions. In order to portray the tales that he told, it was necessary to set them in the context of Davis’s family background, personal experiences, and storytelling practices.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994, p, por, bibl Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jack tales; Storytellers

Record #:

6232

Author(s):

Moffett, Vic

Abstract:

Louise Anderson is a nationally known Afro-American storyteller whose tales have delighted listeners at festivals and stage appearances. Moffett discusses Anderson's evolution as a storyteller and elements of her art as contained in three characteristic tales. The North Carolina Arts Council honored her with the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award for 1993.

Source:

North Carolina Literary Review (NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Spring 1993, p23-24 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Anderson, Louise, 1921-1994; African Americans in the performing arts; Storytellers

Record #:

35937

Author(s):

Brittain, Robbie

Abstract:

Owner of a backyard petting zoo and arboretum, Ernest Luck enjoys telling stories about past daring or humorous incidents in his life.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 39 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1992, p36-44 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Personal narratives; Storytellers; Storytellers--Asheville

Record #:

35908

Author(s):

Wise, Jim

Abstract:

Mentioned was Smoke to Gold, a book produced by a local junior historic club, the Skewarkians. Getting the spotlight, though, was their second literary endeavor, Weird Tales. Many of the tales told were the byproduct of club members interviewing residents of Martin County, living in towns like Bear Grass. Helping the book to live up to its name and claim were ghost stories, local superstitions, and folk medicine.

Source:

Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 8 Issue 8, Oct 1980, p16

Subject(s):

Ghosts; Folk medicine; Superstition; Storytellers; Tobacco farms; Skewarkians; Bear Grass, NC

Record #:

35811

Author(s):

Greene, Steve

Abstract:

Before, the narrator focused on the profit and prestige generated from an invention that was mostly generator. Now, it was time to give credit to the true inventor, Bob Carson. As for the man already known for his inventive genius, Wild Bob was also known as a soul needing the Holy Spirit and nicknamed after the only type of spirit he saw fit to be filled with.

Source:

Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 7 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1979, p45-47

Subject(s):

Inventors; Whiskey; Automobiles--History; Turkeys; Storytellers

Record #:

35195

Author(s):

Skaggs, Alberta E.

Abstract:

Silas McDowell collected these two stories, “A Forced Marriage” and “Circumstantial Evidence,” from Mrs. Nancy McEntire, the woman whom he boarded with in Morganton, NC.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 11 Issue 1, July 1963, p20-23 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Death penalty; Storytellers