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The society has, at the century mark, its largest membership in history, a well-trafficked website that includes a growing repository of studies and documents (Missouri Folklore Studies) and a journal now well past the quarter-century mark. [citation needed] In 2021, the Missouri Folklore Society published volumes 40 and 41: Emerging Folklorists.
In 1982, the Missouri Cultural Heritage Center was established at the University of Missouri and directed by Howard Wight Marshall, a professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. The Center found its permanent home in 1986 at the University of Missouri’s historic Sanford F. Conley House . [ 5 ]
On August 14, 1902, William Helms (June 5, 1835 – December 13, 1917), a 67-year-old farmer and Civil War veteran, was walking along the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (later the Missouri Pacific Railroad) where it crosses Big River outside of Irondale (Washington County, Missouri), collecting lumber for a barn he intended to build.
Mary Alicia Owen (January 29, 1850 – January 5, 1935) was an American author and folklore collector in the state of Missouri. She compiled several works of local legend and voodoo . Early life
A Thunderbird petroglyph at Washington State Park in Missouri An Alton Evening Telegraph newspaper article of May 27, 1921, stated that seven smaller painted images, carved and painted in rocks, believed to be of archaic American Indian origin, were found in the early 20th century about 1.5 miles upriver from the ancient Piasa creature's location.
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In an effort to bring history to the public, the Society operates a number of programs. The Missouri History in Performance (MoHiP) is one such way. Through MoHiP, playwrights craft performances concerning moments in Missouri history, often which use the talents of folk musicians Cathy Barton and Dave Para.
Belden had planned a publication of Missouri folk song but his plans were disrupted by World War I and the energies of the Missouri Folklore Society slowed down in the 1920s and 1930s. [1] Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society was finally published in 1940. [6]