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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 16

Professor Norman Cazden of the Univ. of Maine at Orono has collected a practical, very singable assortment of folk music and ballads from the Catskill Mountain bards who used to sing at Camp Woodland in Phoenicia. His choice of material has been guided by what has proven useful and enjoyable. Many of the songs have served for dramatization, dance and other group treatments in schools, in outdoor camping, for stage projects and for just plain singing. Originally included as part of Prof. Cazden\u27s ABELARD FOLKSONG BOOK (long out of print), A CATSKILL SONGBOOK had been republished by Purple Mountain Press Ltd., for the first time in softcover

Preservation hotline #9

This publication comes from the Preservation Hotlines serial, published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History about common issues relating to preservation in South Carolina. This publication is about how to select a consultant for cultural resource surveys and evaluations

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 6

This newsletter will be as brief as it has been (up to now) non-existent. However, you are entitled to know what has happened to Northeast Folklore, which usually appears late in May or early in June. Well, very simply, it will appear sometime late in July or early in August. I will spare you any long and involved mea culpa at this point, although no one is to blame but me. However, all seems to be going ahead adequately now, and unless something goes very wrong you should have Northeast Folklore VIII soon. At that time we will also bill you for the academic year 1967-1968. The forthcoming issue will be entitled, Folksongs From Martha\u27s Vineyard. More specifically, it will include some thirty items as remembered and noted down by Gale Huntington from the singing of members of his wife \u27s family, The Singing Tiltons. Gale has also written a very informative general introduction and the headnotes and annotations for the individual songs. We hope as well to have pictures of the four men he learned songs from: Zeb, Welcome, Bill, and Alton Tilton

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 29

This issue is coming simultaneously with Northeast Folklore XXIV and XXV, The Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History : A Catalog of the First 1800 Accessions. This 200+ page guide to the holdings at the Northeast Archives has been long-awaited by many, and I am sure will enlighten many more on the depth and breadth of material available in Orono. In addition to the Society\u27s publishing the Catalog , the Archives has been involved-over the past year with the production of From Stump To Ship : A 1930 Logging Film . Details on this historic film are included in this issue

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 13

Argyle Boom, Vol. XVII of Northeast Folklore, is now being sent to Northeast Folklore Society members and libraries, and is ready for sale from our office. It is a readable book on what at first appears to be an unreadable subject. Written and edited mostly by Sandy Ives, with a back up crew of some twelve fieldwork students and eighteen informants, the book covers (in the usual exhaustive Ives Style) the description, operation, and peripheral data of the Argyle Boom and neighboring booms as they existed in the first two decades of the 20th century. An enormous operation in its day, the Argyle Boom system was responsible for sorting and rafting all the logs cut and dumped into the upper Penobscot each year. This amounted to something like 200 million board feet! The section on the daily lives of the workers should perhaps have been longer, in view of the possibility that not all readers will be familiar with lumbercamp life and will therefore have nothing to compare this description with. But maybe this criticism stems from the fact that I find the human side much more interesting than the details of sorting and rafting, and so would have liked to see more of it. Anyhow, what there is is very good

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 10

Pete Seeger, along with Gordon Bok and Sally and Lou Killen, appeared to a full gym at the University of Maine, Orono, Feb[ruary] 29. It was a benefit for poor Clearwater, Pete\u27s Hudson River conservation-promoting sloop, now in the Stonington yards for extensive repairs. Compensating for a bad cold, Pete did many tunes on his whistle and banjo although his voice sounded just find to me when he did sing. Gordon seemed in an exceptionally good mood, adding extra sparkle to an already perfect performance. The Killens sang their songs with the gusto and clarity that has been their trademark all along

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 23

The Society\u27s Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, June 12, at the Memorial Union on the University of Maine (Orono) campus. The morning session was devoted to the business meeting, the minutes of which are summarized elsewhere in this Newsletter, followed by an Open House at the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. In the afternoon, there were three short presentations on the general topic, Folklore Field Work in the Maritime Provinces. Carole Spray of Fredericton, N.B., spoke on Collecting Folklore in New Brunswick: An Amateur\u27s Experiences ; Catherine Jolicoeur of the Centre Universitaire, Saint-Louis-Maillet, Edmundston, N.B., spoke on Collecting Acadian Legends: How I Began, Where I\u27ve Been, Where I\u27m Going. And Cora Greenaway of Dartmouth, N.S., spoke on Painted Walls in Nova Scotia, illustrating her talk with a series of slides. After a short break for coffee there was a showing of From the Heart: Canadian Folk Artists, a C.B.C. video presentation profiling fifteen Canadian folk artists. This presentation came through the courtesy of C.B.C. and the Producer Director, Donnalu Wigmore

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 18

Dr. Richard K. Lunt, folklorist and author of Northeast Folklore Volume X ( Jones Tracy, Tall Tale Teller from Mt. Desert Island ), is currently directing the Maine Folklife Survey. The project, a statewide effort made possible by grants from the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, will assess the current status of folk and traditional arts and crafts in Maine. The interest is in the here and now, what traditional activities are still being performed

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 8

I dedicated my book, Lawrence Doyle, first to Big Jim Pendergast (whom I called, quite rightly, My first friend on Prince Edward Island ) and then to Joe Walsh, my first friend in King\u27s County. They both died within the month of January. Joe, at eighty-one, had gone down under his house to thaw out some pipes with a propane torch when some straw insulation caught on fire; the whole house went up and that was the end for Joe. Jim died very quietly at ninety-five after years of confinement. I will miss them both; in fact, I already do. — Sandy Ive