Record #:

16238

Author(s):

Kurger, Steve; Conway, Cecelia

Abstract:

Clifford Glenn has skillfully made fretless mountain banjos and dulcimers in the Sugar Grove community since the 1950s. He comes for a unique family instrument-making tradition that stretches over four generations to the 19th-century. He also represents a large cultural tradition of the area around Beech Mountain and the Watauga River valley. In homes along the labyrinth of winding dirt roads in and around the area, musicians from several prolific families played old-time music, told Jack Tales, and made traditional crafts.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2007, p13-17 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Banjo makers; Glenn, Clifford Howard

Record #:

16239

Author(s):

Ruchala, James

Abstract:

Ruchala takes on the history and culture of the Blue-Ridge string-band tradition of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont sections of North Carolina. By focusing on the story of \"Sally Ann,\" Ruchala explores the issues of tradition and revival, continuity and change, insider and outsider, and music and dance.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2007, p29-75, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Blue Ridge Mountains--Music; Piedmont (U.S.: Region)--Music

Record #:

16240

Author(s):

Locklear, Erica Abrams

Abstract:

The people of Western North Carolina look forward to spring for a number of reasons, one of which is a culturally unique food that tastes and smells like no other--ramps. A member of the wild leek family, ramps fulfill an important cultural and economic space in Western North Carolina. Locklear considers the role by investigating customs surrounding ramps that include uses, festivals, stories, cycles, and restrictions.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2006, p4-18, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wild leek; Ramp (Plant)

Record #:

16241

Author(s):

Herzog, Mary Jean Ronan

Abstract:

Although he started his musical career as a drummer in a rock and roll band, musician, storyteller, and photographer David Hold has been teaching, performing, and revitalizing old time Appalachian music and storytelling for more than thirty years.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2006, p19-25 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Musicians

Record #:

16242

Author(s):

Eason, Jan

Abstract:

Eason details the return of 400 people in Portsmouth Village, an island ghost town on the northernmost reach of Cape Lookout National Seashore. With a brief history of Portsmouth Island, Eason remarks on the current state of the area and attempts to bring this ghost town to life.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2005, p13-24, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Portsmouth Island--History

Record #:

16243

Author(s):

Kelley, Greg

Abstract:

The flamboyant, swaggering frontier tall-tale tellers and local colorists of American literature were invariably skilled narrators. The comic adventure tales and exaggerated lies chronicling outlandish deeds of fishing, hunting, and fighting flourished in the new country. These stories captured something of the exuberant national character and gave verbal expression to the wild individuality of the American frontier.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2005, p25-38, bibl Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Storytellers

Record #:

16244

Author(s):

Belanus, Betty J.

Abstract:

On any given day of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, men and women from North Carolina's maritime communities could be observed laboring on markers of these maritime cultures such as duck blinds and sail skiffs, and explaining trapping and net fishing with songs and tales.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2005, p39-49, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Coastal culture; Coastal communities; Maritime culture

Record #:

16250

Author(s):

Zug, Charles G., III

Abstract:

Shortly after World War I, the pottery industry in North Carolina underwent some major transformations. The wares changed from the old utilitarian jars and jugs to smaller, more brightly colored forms. The potters also adopted new technologies and marketing strategies to reach a new clientele. But perhaps the greatest innovation was that women began turning wares and taking a major role in the business. And the very first women of all was Nell Cole Graves.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 38 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1991, p10-11, bibl Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Graves, Nell Cole, 1908-1997; Potters--Women

Record #:

16251

Author(s):

Bernhardt, Jack

Abstract:

In quality and strength of its musical traditions, few areas of the United States compare with the region of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region's old-time, bluegrass, and gospel music finds expression in the extraordinary talents of individual musicians and supports from a systems of institutions that include families, schools, churches, conventions, festivals, record companies and radio stations. Since it began broadcasting in 1948, Mount Airy radio stations WPAQ-AM has remained a powerful force in promoting its region's traditions. WPAQ owes its importance to the vision and commitment of station owner Ralph Epperson, who has made the radio a family and personal enterprise and support of traditional music a vocation.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 38 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1991, p15-17, bibl Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Bluegrass music

Record #:

16252

Author(s):

Oxford, Cheryl

Abstract:

Oxford discusses the performance paradigm for storyteller Ray Hicks, a traditional storyteller from Banner Elk, North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 38 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1991, p75-186, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Hicks, Ray, 1922-2003

Record #:

16253

Author(s):

Patterson, Daniel W.

Abstract:

A Singing Stream is the first film in the American Traditional Culture Series to chronicle 20th-century African-American history through the musical traditions of one family. It presents the Landis family of rural Granville County and suggests the cultural resources with which they have faced historical changes.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 36 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1989, p1-36, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African American musicians; African American families--Granville County; Films

Record #:

16254

Author(s):

Barfield, Rodney

Abstract:

Julian Guthrie is a native of Harkers Island, a small island community east of Beaufort, N.C. It is a unique community known widely for its traditional boats and its coastal folkways. Guthrie is a boat builder who learned the techniques and traditions from his uncle, traditions that mark the boats from this community with a unique identity.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 36 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1989, p65-67, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Boatbuilders--Harkers Island

Record #:

16255

Author(s):

McGowan, Thomas

Abstract:

David Stick has written four major histories of the North Carolina coast. Through Stick's books and articles, the reader gains not only a factual chronicle of the history of the North Carolina coast, but also a lively appreciation of the details of regional traditional life--of the forms and functions of the folk-life of communities and occupational groups along the Outer Banks.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 36 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1989, p70-72, bibl Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Outer Banks--History

Record #:

16256

Author(s):

Armstrong, Roy, II

Abstract:

Bath, a riverside village in Beaufort County that is North Carolina's oldest town, is the setting for many old stories and legends. One of the most enduring local legends is the story of the Devil's Hoof Prints left from the disastrous riding accident of Jesse Elliot in 1813.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 36 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1989, p121-127, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Legends--Beaufort County

Record #:

16257

Author(s):

Feather, Laura L.

Abstract:

At the southern end of Core Sound, in coastal Carteret County, lies Harkers Island. The areas of subsistence techniques and foodways provide clear examples of folkways different from those found inland. Traditional foods and ways of eating form a link with the past. In situations of cultural change, many people hold on to them despite pressure to change. The loon has been adopted by Harkers Island natives as a symbol of their shared culinary and cultural heritage.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 37 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1990, p5-12, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Loon (Bird)