Presents a collection of personal memories from the Folklore Society's longest active member, who first joined more than fifty years ago. Here we find legends, customs, and beliefs of the people of the Helotes Settlement near San Antonio.
Captures the lore of a community through the eyes of Beatrice Upshaw. The book is a memoir, but it shares more than merely family memories of significant events. It tells of beliefs, home remedies, folk games, and customs, as well as the importance of religion and education to a community of like-minded people.
A collection of columns from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. The editorial columns included tell stories, and tell about telling stories. They also reflect boyhood dreams... and foolishness, fears, beliefs, customs, traditions, and sometimes things that are no longer part of our culture but we wish were.
Drawing on Leonidas Warren Payne's own writing, interviews with former colleagues and students, and private letters lain undisclosed since his death, Rare Integrity reveals a portrait of a man whose great gift of creative generosity and warmth of heart enabled him to see a person as the person wished to be seen.
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