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Items with subject 'Folklife - Death'
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Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Hole-in-the-Wall Church
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of churches which were hit during the war thus gaining holes in their structure. As well as various stories of a woman whom passed away with a expensive ring on her finger, when grave robbers try to steal it she wakes up and scares them away. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Insane Murderers
by Salisbury University Students (1971 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1971 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected local legends. For this collection, these stories tell of insane murderers from the Eastern Shore and the deadly acts they committed. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Lynchings, Hangings, and Suicides by Hanging
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of lynching's, hangings, suicides by hanging that occurred along the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Roommates Death
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends and scary stories, for this collection they specifically interviewed about mysterious deaths of roommates. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story itself.
Folklife Collection - Maryland Material Culture, Cultural Landscape, Architecture
by Salisbury University Students (1968 – 1975)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This collection is comprised of five sets of slides sent from the State Folklorist at the Maryland Arts Council in 1976. It consists of one hundred of slides picturing different forms of architecture and cultural landscape encountered in Maryland in the 1970s, including gravestones, factories, decoys, barns, houses, and many more.
Folklife Collection - Personal Narrative: Memom, Death, and Birth
by Salisbury University Students (1994)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1994, Salisbury University students and teachers collected folk life material. For this project, Nicole Long interviewed her grandmother Madalyn Richardson (Memom) during which she delivered several accounts of personal narratives. These were mostly about death, illness, birth, what women had to endure and how life was like in the rural areas of the Eastern Shore. Tape and photographs enclosed.
Folklife Collection - Resting in Hope of a Glorious Resurrection: Epitaphs
by Salisbury University Students (1977)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1977, former Salisbury University Student Catherine Cullen collected folk material. For this project, she collected epitaphs on gravestones at the St. Stephen's Cemetery. This paper is illustrated with sketches and pictures of gravestones.
Folklife Collection - Superstition and Popular Belief: Death and Funeral Customs
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of superstitious and popular beliefs about death and funeral customs. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - The Boyfriends Death
by Salisbury University Students (1983)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1983, former Salisbury University Student Jeff Rogge collected folk material. This collection focuses on a particular urban legend : "The Boyfriend's Death". Like any famous legend, some details vary from a folkgroup to another. In his paper, Jeff Rogge reports on the versions collected from Salisbury State College students. Tape enclosed.
Folklife Collection - Tombstones and Epitaths
by Salisbury University Students (1995)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1995, former Salisbury University student Bonnie Stone collected folk material. Her collection explores tombstones and the writings on them in Somerset County, Maryland. Included are Stone's essay and black and white photographs.
Folklife Collection - Traditions Surrounding Tombstones and Their Motifs in Denton, MD from 1800 to1900
by Salisbury University Students (1978)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1978, former Salisbury University Student Timothy Thurber collected folk material associated with gravestone traditions, motifs and epitaphs. His collection focuses on the period of 1800 to 1900 in Denton, Maryland. Discussed in this paper are the stones, the inscriptions and the design used depending on the situation. Photographs enclosed.
Folklife Collection - Ty's Tombstone
by Salisbury University Students (1975 – 1975s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1975, former Salisbury University student Bill Boyd collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various explanations of Ty's Tombstone located in Camp Springs, Maryland. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.