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16467
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From its early days on the frontiers of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, the old-fashioned camp meeting has stood in folklore as a wild and raucous outdoor gathering where the rugged pioneer vented his religious steam, often in unusual ways. Carried on the wings of the Second Great Awakening at the turn of the 19th-century, the idea of the camp meeting spread both on the frontier and along the eastern seaboard, and became a hallmark of American Methodism.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 15 Issue 1, May 1967,
p35-40
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16468
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One stanza is apparently all that remains of a North Carolina folksong from the southern Piedmont. But what remains is a sad telling of the murder of Patsy Beasly from Anson County, North Carolina.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Nov 1967,
p51-55, il, map, f
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16469
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Speech in the Roanoke-Chowan section in northeastern North Carolina closely resembles that of Tidewater Virginia because the early settlers came into the Carolina area from the environs of Jamestown and Eastern Shore Virginia.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Nov 1967,
p56-57
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16470
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt gained recognition and enlarged North Carolina's place on the literary map during the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries with a significant contribution of tales, short stories, and novels set in the Tar Heel State. His understanding of the subtleties of diction and his rendering of distinctive speech patterns according to class, race, and region contributed to his success as an author.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Nov 1967,
p67-70
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Record #:
16471
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Of all the survivals of folk celebrations in North Carolina, non none excites more curiosity and interest than Old Christmas at Rodanthe on Hatteras Island. Though the customary December date is now recognized and honored in the typical, expected fashion, the Rodanthians have not abandoned the custom of their forefathers in signalizing January 5 as the \"real\" Christmas.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p22-25
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16472
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Although most are aware of current anxiety aroused by the question as to tobacco and health, many may not know that the controversy over the effects of tobacco has flared up periodically during the past four hundred years. Physicians, kings, preachers, laymen, and even popes have taken their stand on the subject. All of them have spoke, pro or con, on the score of what tobacco does for or against the consumer.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p30-35
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16473
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Courtship and marriage customs in North Carolina in the 1840s are humorously and vividly described by an unknown contributor in a series of three letters to the SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, the New York weekly which published popular humor in the middle decades of the 19th-century. These letters emphasize the significance in community life of birth, marriage, and death.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Dec 1962,
p1-8
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16474
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Free discusses the various magical attributes of tobacco and how it is used in southern life.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Dec 1962,
p9-10
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Record #:
16475
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Ballad 301 in the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina folklore concerns Frankie Silver, who murdered her husband just before Christmas in 1831, burned the corpse, suggested that he drowned but was found guilty and hung in 1832. Her ballad is one she is reputed to have composed by way of confession and sung from the scaffold.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Dec 1962,
p28
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16476
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The Cape Fear River is formed by the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers. It flows in a general southeasterly direction and empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The river is navigable as far north as Fayetteville. From Fayetteville down, the quiet waters of the Cape Fear offered quick and inexpensive transportation of logs to the sawmills and lumber yards of the eastern seaport.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 11 Issue 1, July 1963,
p6-13, il, map
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16477
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In the early days of the Friends Society (Quakers) in North Carolina the members kept close watch over the conduct of its members. Matters of deportment, slavery, the rearing of children, and the carrying out of civic responsibility were carefully watched over and discussed openly and freely at monthly and quarterly meetings. Full reports such as the one detailed from the Jack Swamp Monthly Meeting held in the Northampton County have been carefully preserved.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 11 Issue 1, July 1963,
p14
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Record #:
16478
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McRorie offers a selection of folktales centered in Rutherford County, North Carolina ranging from stories about the Rutherford Courthouse and a red-eyed dog to the headless man of Stoney Creek.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 11 Issue 1, July 1963,
p17-19
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16479
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Buemann offers a history of the North Carolina Folklore Society from their beginnings in 1913 to the new paths taken currently to preserve North Carolina's folklore in all its forms.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 11 Issue 2, Dec 1963,
p1-23
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Record #:
16480
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Lillian Wright presents the accounts of her husband, Dr. John J. Wright--a professor of public health administration--as a public health worker in the mountains of North Carolina. This article details his encounters with the unique aspects of mountain medicine.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 12 Issue 1, July 1964,
p7-12
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16481
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There remains a vital body of material yet to be explored, more alive today than ballad-singing or any other oral folk art. That extensive body is the instrumental tradition of fiddle, dulcimer, and five-string banjo music.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 12 Issue 2, Dec 1964,
p1-8, f
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