Record #:

16513

Author(s):

Barker, Addison

Abstract:

BLUM's FARMER'S AND PLANTER'S ALMANAC, founded in 1828 by John Christian Blum includes a large portion of weather signs and lore.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p11-19 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Weather; Almanacs; Blum, John Christian, 1784-1854; Folklore--Weather

Record #:

16514

Author(s):

Hall, Alonzo C.

Abstract:

The quaint and humorous epitaphs that are present on North Carolina gravestones provide a unique collection regional folklore.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 2, Dec 1957, p1-12 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Epitaphs; Gravestones--Epitaphs

Record #:

16515

Author(s):

Walker, John

Abstract:

Walker provides a sampling of folklore from Rutherford County that includes superstitions, descriptions of the practice of folk medicine, a modern account of the practice of witchcraft, African American words and expressions, a ghost tale, a family anecdote, and a Christmas story.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 3 Issue 2, Dec 1955, p6-16 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Superstition

Record #:

16516

Author(s):

Patterson, Daniel W.

Abstract:

Shaker songs and ballads are divided roughly into two groups. Wordless tunes, songs with wordless phrases that recur in formal patterns, and tunes with texts in unknown tongues; and others produced by the intellectual leaders of the sect.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 3 Issue 2, Dec 1955, p31-37, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Shakers

Record #:

16517

Author(s):

West, John Foster

Abstract:

West presents a list of folk rhymes, chants, and games handed down to him from his own grandfather, a native western North Carolinian.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Sept 1954, p33-35 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Games

Record #:

18948

Author(s):

Fariello, M. Anna

Abstract:

When the first European explorers ventured into Cherokee territory, they were amazed and dismayed, by the impenetrable strands of cane that lined the banks of the region's rivers and streams. Fariello describes the process of turning this cane into the intricate baskets.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2010, p41-55, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--Basket makers

Record #:

18949

Author(s):

Baldwin, Lisa; Weinstein, Leila; Schaad, Emily

Abstract:

Eris Ellis is a musician's musician, whose career as a banjo player represents the dynamic of family, local community, and wider national contexts that contribute to old time and bluegrass music. Ellis has recently been introduced into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame and is one of the best exemplars of a musical style that began in North Carolina: Scruggs-style banjo playing.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2010, p4-7, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Bluegrass music

Record #:

18950

Author(s):

Ballard, Sandra L.

Abstract:

Thomas McGowan taught as a member of the English Department at Appalachian State University for thirty nine years (1972-2011). There he received high praise and recognition as a teacher and folklorist, with an emphasis on regional folklife and oral narratives.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 58 Issue 1, Summer/Spring 2011, p17-25, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklorists

Record #:

18951

Author(s):

Thraves, Tessa

Abstract:

Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr. is an apple historian and retired orchardist who lives in Pittsboro. Gathered from the farmyards of North Carolina and other southern states, Calhoun has a nursery of heirloom apples growing on his property and has written the definitive book on the history of the fruit in the south.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 58 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2011, p4-8, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Apples

Record #:

18952

Author(s):

McGowan, Thomas

Abstract:

Videographer Neal Hutcheson has produced an extensive collection of documentaries on North Carolina's notable folk artists, folk speech of North Carolina cultural groups, and the family and community contexts of regional folk life.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 58 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2011, p9-13, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Filmmakers--North Carolina; Folk life

Record #:

18953

Author(s):

Bishop, Stephen

Abstract:

No one, including historians, is quite sure when and how North Carolina became dubbed the Tar Heel State, but Bishop elaborates on the legend in terms of the production of tar and turpentine in the state and traces the history of that production through time.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 58 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2011, p37-44, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Nicknames; Turpentine; Tar Heel (Name)

Record #:

19505

Author(s):

Malone, Elmer Taylor, Jr.

Abstract:

Although not particularly successful in the ways the world measures success, Malcolm Fowler, a businessman and amateur historian, made his life's work to tell the story of the Scottish Highlanders in the upper Cape Fear region of North Carolina, and in this he was the most successful.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 59 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2012, p4-10, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Immigrants--Scottish; Fowler, Malcolm, 1901-1980

Record #:

19506

Author(s):

Salyers, Joy

Abstract:

North Carolina is full of communities that are devoted to success through remaining connected to their heritage. They farm or clam, gather or dig to provide for their families and their community. A new photography exhibit--North Carolina at Work: Cedric Chatterley's Portraits and Landscapes of Traditional Labor--displays these working relationships and highlights the rich holdings of North Carolina folklore they represent.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 59 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2012, p11-17, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Photography--Exhibitions; Chatterley, Cedric; Traditional labor

Record #:

19507

Author(s):

West, Susan; Garrity-Blake, Barbara J.

Abstract:

Despite the worrisome trends in increasingly stringent regulations, low prices, high fuel costs, and new technology, North Carolina fishermen remain positive about the future of the local seafood industry and continue to stick together in times of hardship.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 59 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2012, p22-31, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Seafood industry--North Carolina

Record #:

19509

Author(s):

Cecelski, David

Abstract:

With the 2005 closing of Beaufort Fisheries, North Carolina's last menhaden factory, there has been an outpouring of interest in the history of the menhaden industry in the state.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 59 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2012, p32-41, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Menhaden fisheries--North Carolina