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Celebrating 100 years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009 / edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 66.
- Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 66
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Texas Folklore Society--History--20th century.
- Texas Folklore Society.
- Texas Folklore Society--History--21st century.
- Folklore--Texas.
- Folklore.
- History.
- Texas.
- Texas--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Celebrating one hundred years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Death Lore: Texas Rituals, superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter (PTFS LXV) Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society examines places where people are buried, either permanently or temporarily; how people are buried, either permanently or temporarily; how people die and the rituals associated with funerals and burials; some of the stranger stories about what happens after we're gone; and offers some philosophical musings about death in general as well as our connection to those who have gone before.
- Charreada: Mexican Rodeo in Texas (PTFS LIX) Photographs by Al Rendon, with essays by Julia Hambric, Bryan Woolley, and Francis Edward Abernethy This is the story of EI Charro, or man on horseback, as well as women, charras, all beautifully captured in seventy-five duotone photographs illustrating rodeo life, riding and roping maneuvers, and elaborate riding formations.
- The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends (PTFS LX) Francis Edward Abernethy, Jerry Bryan Lincecum, and Frances B. Vick, eds. When families gather and tell their stories they are passing down the "family saga" to the next generation. Herein are stories of feuds, oddball family members, wartime experiences, and significant life events, sure to stimulate all families to remember and share their stories.
- Contents:
- Hooked on Texas / Clarence Jay Faulkner
- Beware of folklore addiction / Scott Hill Bumgardner
- McDade and me / Vicky Rose
- Mother lodes of Mexican lore / Lucy Fischer West
- Bibliography of Mexican-American folklore articles
- Dobie's disciples and the Choctaw Five / Tim Tingle
- The Texas Folklore Society was part of my life long before I knew It / Jean Granberry Schnitz
- The family nature of the Texas Folklore Society / Kenneth L. Untiedt
- Collecting and reading folklore / James Ward Lee
- Books of the TFS / Len Ainsworth
- Texas booklore: if it ain't folklore, then what the he(ck) is it? / Al Lowman
- How I came to be a publisher of Texas Folklore Society Publications / Frances Brannen Vick
- An Enduring relationship: The Texas Folklore Society and folk music / L. Patrick Hughes
- African Americans and Texas folklore / Bruce A. Glasrud
- Geococcyx / Charles Chupp
- Pecos Bill and his pedigree / Charles Clay Doyle
- Funerals and folklore: a snapshot from 1909 / Jerry B. Lincecum
- How the TFS has influenced me as a writer, but more importantly, what it has meant to me as a listener / Elmer Kelton
- Women in the Texas Folklore Society / Peggy A. Redshaw
- Between a rock and a hard place: reflections on the TFS and a writing life / Joyce Gibson Roach
- Back in the ought 'sixties / Francis Edward Abernethy
- The Alford homeplace: deconstructing a dogtrot / Sue M. Friday
- Mexican and Mexican-American folk healers: continuing to nourish our sense of humanity into the twenty-first century / Meredith E. Abarca
- Keeping the flames burning and passing them on: hoots at TFS meetings / Kenneth W. Davis
- The Texas Folklore Society: getting there is half the fun / Lee Haile
- Folklore society memories / Archie P. McDonald
- Confessions of a folklore junkie / Charlie Oden
- Hooked / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell
- 1968: one family's folklore odyssey / Sarah L. Greene
- My first TFS meeting / J. Rhett Rushing
- Looking back with the Hansons / Carol Hanson
- Under the influence / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781574412772
- 1574412779
- OCLC:
- 377739884
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