Download or read book Folklore from the Adirondack Foothills written by Howard Thomas and published by North Country Books. This book was released on 1962 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from the Adirondack Foothills written by Howard Thomas and published by North Country Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folklore from the Adirondack Foothills written by Howard Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Adirondack foothills has seldom been spectacular but folks who have lived and died in the hilly region north of the Mohawk Valley have left an heritage of folklore which has sprung up from a way of life which is peculiar to the area. Folklore from the Adirondack Foothills attempts to emphasize phases of life in the foothills. Here are yarns heard along the roads, tales of logging days on the rivers and creeks and in the sawmill hamlets, and pen-portraits of folks whose eccentricities lent a touch of color to the villages in which they once lived.
Download or read book American Folklore written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-24 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Download or read book Lore of an Adirondack County written by Edith E. Cutting and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My family lives in the Adirondacks, a section of New York State that has been favorable to the preservation of folklore. With a common background in England and America for life in a small community, we have kept alive many old tales, songs, sayings, and superstitions, which have always had a sort of fascination for us even though, when quoting some belief, we often qualified it with the remark, 'Of course, I don't believe that sort of thing.'"—from Lore of an Adirondack County Collecting songs, stories, and sayings passed down in her family—and in those of their friends and neighbors in Essex County, New York—Edith E. Cutting provides an invaluable compilation of Adirondack folklore, from lumberjack songs to tall tales about drinking, hunting, and French Canadians. Also included are legends about hidden treasure, weather lore, stories about ghosts and witches, recollections of folk medicines and children's games, and popular songs and ballads. Originally published by Cornell University Press in 1944, Lore of an Adirondack County remains a fresh and charming account of the folkways of New York State, showing how a single Adirondack family, aided by willing neighbors, 'yarned' and sang in the hills above Lake Champlain.
Download or read book A Year of Moons written by Joeseph Bruchac and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by renowned Native author, poet, and storyteller Joseph Bruchac, this book is a collection of stories and essays centered around the author's home and the traditional Abenaki lunar cycles of a year, exposing the natural world and our connection to the land, the plants, and the animals that surround us. Interspersing traditional Native tales and poems with stories from his own life and contemporary Native life, the author highlights how each lunar month represents a unique time of year in the Abenaki calendar and natural world. Each essay also contains haikus written by the author that further illuminate the beauty of the world around us"--
Download or read book Long Ago Tales of the Adirondacks written by Bradley Luberto and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories tell of life, and lives lived in the forgotten days of the mountains and foothills of the great Adirondacks. The following stories here within are not true.Some are based on the truth of a myth, as I like to say. Leather Jack, follows somewhat of a true person.Of Old Hank; when my sister was young, our mother would tell her stories of "Old Hank."Old Hank was created by our mother, made up, he was and old man that for some reason had gone off to live by himself in a cave. 10 years younger than my sister, by the time I came along Old Hank, was kind of a family legend in story. The stories weren't really told to me as fully as they were to my sister, I being told bits and pieces. What I was never told was why Old Hank went off to live in a cave. Maybe there wasn't even a real beginning, to these stories, just a fanciful, "Once upon a time, there was an old man who lived in a cave."Half a century later, I have decided to give Old Hank a beginning.
Download or read book People and Places of the Adirondacks and Foothills written by Lawrence P. Gooley and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People & Places of the Adirondacks collection contains a variety of story types: original works of hard history, the lives of unusual people, noteworthy accomplishments, groundbreaking inventions, remarkable mishaps, oddities, and humor. They all have one thing in common: each is rooted in the North Country, defined here as the Adirondacks and foothills. The region's past is filled with relative or complete unknowns who were, in fact, highly accomplished individuals. Many of the chapters here reveal their stories, which are well worth preserving. Those and others are presented with a purpose that is threefold: to educate, amuse, and entertain. In this volume: Billy Spinner, Weather-Wise Wizard and All-Round Funny Guy; The North Country: Once a Pot Lover's Paradise; The UN is Born--and the North Country Hopes to Host It!; Driving on Dannemora Mountain: Two VERY Speedy Stories; Gators in the Adirondacks: A Seven-Footer at Lake Placid!; KKK Cross-burnings: An Ugly Part of Regional History; The Amazing Story of Joseph Lonsway, Civil War Hero; The Ridiculous but True Story of Daylight Saving Time; Charles Dabney Baker: Mule Savior on the Open Seas; Charles Jennette: Jilted at 99, but Forever Young; Bryan O'Byrne: His Star Burned Bright; Aquaplaning in the Adirondacks: Bored? Grab a Board!; World Champion Cyclist Harry Elkes: The Glens Falls Shadow; Youthful Adirondack Heroes: Kids with True Grit; The Loyalty of Dogs: I'd Swim the Widest Ocean ...; Floyd Bennett: American Aviation Legend; Furious Fowl Forays: Adirondack Birds on the Attack!; Fort Ti Movie: A Legend in 3-D; Mary Hill Johnson: Secretly a Man of War?; Florence Bullard: A Nurse Like Nightingale; Whitehall Movie: The Girl on the Barge; Joel Matteson: Illinois Governor with (no surprise) His Hand in the Till; Darius Alton Davis: War Hero Without a Gun; Thomas Burke: Pioneer Hero of the Northwest.
Download or read book Shoo fly and Other Folk Tales from Upstate written by Donald J. Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and anecdotes told to the author by people living in the Adirondack foothills and the uplands of the Mohawk Valley.
Download or read book From Then Till Now written by Fred Tracy Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Days Old Ways written by Fred Tracy Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Then Till Now written by Fred Tracy Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fanciful Tales from Legends of the Adirondack Indians written by Kate Brewer and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.
Download or read book Adirondack Voices written by Robert D. Bethke and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the work originally published by the University of Illinois Press in 1981. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Log Cabin Days written by Helen Escha Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Regional Folklore written by Terry Ann Mood-Leopold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography. American Regional Folklore begins with a chapter on library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy. Mood also gives excellent advice on researching beyond the library: locating and using community resources like historical societies, museums, fairs and festivals, storytelling groups, local colleges, newspapers and magazines, and individuals with knowledge of the field. The rest of the book is divided into eight sections, each one highlighting a separate region (the Northeast, the South and Southern Highlands, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii). Each regional section contains a useful overview essay, written by an expert on the folklore of that particular region, followed by a selective, annotated bibliography of books and a directory of related resources.
Download or read book Folklore of the Foothills written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
