2001 - A Texas Folklore Odyssey

by ABERNETHY FRANCIS EDWARD (ED)

• ISBN13: 9781574411409
• ISBN10: 1574411403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey is a journey -- or odyssey -- through the Texas Folklore Society as of the year 2001 A.D. Contemporary topics include grandparenting, uppity women, and Spam. Historical topics include the Model T, the Yellow Rose of Texas, and hunting horns. Also included is a discussion of recipes from Austin's famed Green Pastures restaurant and The Texas Cookbook (reissued by the University of North Texas Press in August 2001).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
``It's the Watkins Man!''	2	(14)
Kenneth Davis
``Now You Hear My Horn!''	16	(10)
Thad Sitton
``That Dirty Little Coward!''	26	(18)
Tony Clark
Mother's Model T	44	(10)
George Ewing
The Origins of the Texas Style of Traditional Old-Time Fiddling	54	(20)
Charles Gardner
Epics of Defeat: Texas' Alamo and Scotland's Culloden	74	(16)
Sylvia Grider
The Roswell Incident: Fiftieth Anniversary Sell-Abration	90	(10)
Becky Matthews
Greetings From Frank Dobie	100	(6)
Kevin Hill
Jim Stuart
Baby Lore: The Why and Wherefore of It	106	(16)
Joyce Roach
Grandparenting	122	(10)
Hazel S. Abernethy
``It All Began the Day My Conscience Died:'' The Cheatin' Song from Prototype to Post-Modern	132	(22)
Richard Holland
La Quinceanera: A Hispanic Folk Custom	154	(10)
Phyllis Bridges
The Breakfast of Champions	164	(8)
J.G. Pinkerton
Women A-Horseback---Side or Astride	172	(14)
Carolyn Norgaard
``This story has no leeeeede!''	186	(20)
Mike Cox
Recipes from Green Pastures	206	(16)
Mary Faulk Koock
Take Me Out to the Ballgame	222	(12)
John Lightfoot
How Cloth was Dyed during the Civil War in Washington County, Texas	234	(12)
Peggy Redshaw
Uppity Women	246	(10)
Archie McDonald
Praising Potted Pork Parts: Austin's One and Only Spamarama	256	(10)
L. Patrick Hughes
Homemade Religion: Miraculous Images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary in South Texas	266	(10)
Rhett Rushing
The Roy Bedichek Family Letters	276	(18)
Frances B. Vick
Emily D. West and the Yellow Prose of Texas: A Primer on Some Primary Documents and their Doctoring	294	(24)
James Lutzweiler
The Elusive Emily D. West, Folksong's Fabled ``Yellow Rose of Texas''	318	(13)
F.E. Abernethy
Contributors	331	(8)
Index	339