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Items with subject 'Folklife - Poetry'
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Folklife Collection - Autograph Rhymes
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 different types of folk speech and poetry. This collection focuses on autograph rhymes. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the rhyme.
Folklife Collection - Children' Games and Poetry and Rhymes from Berkshire, Baltimore County
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 Barbara Wagner collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of children's games, poetry, and rhymes from Berkshire, Baltimore County in Maryland. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, their stories and a map.
Folklife Collection - Children's Poetry and Rhymes
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 Clifton Earl Bishop collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of popular children's poetry and rhymes from around the Eastern Shore. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.
Folklife Collection - Epitaphs
by Salisbury University Students (1971 – 1971s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1971, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk life material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of epitaphs found around the Eastern Shore area. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Epitaphs
by Salisbury University Students (1979 – 1979)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of research projects about local Eastern Shore residents in 1979, former Salisbury University student Pat LesCallette collected folk material. For this collection, his research focuses on various depictions of epitaphs found at different cemeteries around Worchester County, Maryland. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, the epitaphs, multiple photographs as well as fabric screen prints of various gravestones.
Folklife Collection - Epitaphs from Nutter's Election District
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 Jeanne Kilchenstein collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various epitaphs from the Nutters Election District in Maryland. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.
Folklife Collection - Epitaphs of Saint Luke's Church
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 Barbara Duryea collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of epitaphs from Saint Luke's Church located in Seaford, Delaware. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.
Folklife Collection - Folk Poet, Arnulfo Castillo
by Salisbury University Students (1977)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1977, former Salisbury University student Inez Cardozo-Freeman collected folk life material. For this collection, the student chose to focus on Arnulfo Castillo, a Mexican Folk Poet in Ohio. Arnulfo Castilloused a traditional Mexican folk forms known as the "corrido", which is a sort of narrative folk song in ballad. This paper is mainly composed of samples of this form of folk poem with a thorough explanation of the meaning and the context in which it was written.
Folklife Collection - Folk Songs
by Salisbury University Students (1973 – 1973s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on assorted folk songs from around the Eastern Shore. The collection includes information about the informant, the collector, and the song.
Folklife Collection - Folklore of Children
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 S. Jean Stevens collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of children's folklore from around Cambridge, Maryland. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.
Folklife Collection - Folklore of the Eastern Shore
by Salisbury University Students (1978)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1978, Salisbury University students and teachers collected folk life material. In this particular collection, former teacher Suzanne R. L. Storman covers a vast array of materials ranging from folk poetry to folk lore, architecture and some local traditions.
Folklife Collection - Grace (Religion)
by Salisbury University Students (1970)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1970, former Salisbury University students collected folk speech, this collection focuses on different variations of Grace or prayers to give thanks. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the passage.