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35195
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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.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 11 Issue 1, July 1963,
p20-23
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30900
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Brenda Gilbert and Jan Schmidt co-founded the Storytelling Arts Center of the Southeast to bring diverse cultures together in sharing their storytelling traditions. They also started the Storytelling Festival of Carolina, a spring event that brings national and regional storytellers together in Scotland County. Stories included history, genealogy, spirituality, and traditions of Lumbee Indians, African Americans, and European immigrants.
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3.Acting a Fool by Ritter, William North Carolina Folklore Journal Vol. 62 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 2015
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36967
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Folktales often come from events done by local characters; fools or jesters in their respective communities often represented the archetypal stories that are still talked about today. The subjects of these stories played an active role in the social landscape and were celebrated for acting a fool.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 62 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 2015,
p57-74
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35963
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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.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p67-69
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8252
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Storyteller Connie Regan-Blake of Asheville maintains a busy schedule, performing nationally and internationally and conducting workshops to teach others the art of telling stories. A visit to her cousin, who was working in a library, started Regan-Blake on her storytelling career. In 1975, the two women decided to tell stories full-time, and for the next three years they performed around the country. They eventually settled in Asheville where Regan-Blake met her future husband. In July, the National Storytelling Network presented her with the 2006 Oracle Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her “sustained and exemplary contribution to storytelling in North America.â€
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35966
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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.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
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8255
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Jerry Wolfe, an elder in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, has spent many years storytelling and promoting Cherokee culture. His stories are drawn from his own experiences, including World War II and the Job Corps program, and from Cherokee animal tales. He is well-known as an expert on Indian stickball and as a carver of special sticks used in the game. He received the North Carolina Arts Council Heritage Award in 2003.
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8256
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For over twenty years, Joan Leotta, of Calabash, was a well-known storyteller in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states and was a featured storyteller at the White House, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian Institution. She not only tells stories but performs them as well, becoming individual characters in her award-winning one-woman show, Time Traveler.
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35965
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For over ninety years, Julie Jarrell Lyons shared mountain folkways in the forms of singing, dancing, and telling tales.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p73-75
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8259
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Mark Twain's stories and thoughtful insights have been resurrected in North Carolina by professional storyteller Dr. Marvin Cole, who is the image of the humorist when he performs. A rereading of Huckleberry Finn when Cole was president of Dekalb College in Georgia gave him the idea to take on the persona of Twain and bring his works to life. He performed his first show at age fifty-six and has gone on to perform at conferences, universities, and on Mississippi River riverboats.
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5300
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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.
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37034
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The author recounts several stories concerning ghosts and superstitions told to her by her fore-parents.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 63 Issue 1-2, 2016,
p41-49
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36359
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In memorium to Ray Hicks, the authors recall his famous storytelling abilities, especially regarding jack tales.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 50 Issue 1-2, Fall-Winter 2003,
p13-17
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8258
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Ron Jones, a past president of the North Carolina Storytelling Guild, comes from a family of storytellers and has been immersed in the oral tradition all of his life. His style is straightforward, but he also uses his guitar to weave music into the tales he tells. He holds a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked twenty-two years in the Wake County Library System. Much of his storytelling has been connected with the Wake County Public Libraries and public schools. Now retired, he spends his time storytelling across North Carolina and in surrounding states.
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Sheila Kay Adams grew up in Madison County in the small town of Sodom, a community famous for its ballad singers. She is a storyteller, writer, and seventh-generation singer. Her husband, Jim Taylor, builds dulcimers and arranges and produces music CDs of the old music. The couple spends about four months a year on the road performing the old songs and stories of the North Carolina mountains at storytelling festivals and concerts.
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