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James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...
The town of Angola, Indiana has several locations where residents have claimed to have sighted specters.An old theatre sits on the town circle, and some residents claim that at midnight a man with a long red beard appears on the roof of the building pacing back and forth and cries aloud, "Marie please come back to me, please."
1966: "Some Child Ballads on Hillbilly Records" in Folklore & Society: Essays in Honor of Benj. A. Botkin [19] 1967: "Hillbilly Records and Tune Transcriptions" in Western Folklore [20] 1970: "Indiana's Treasure Store is a Wealth of Good Old Hoosier Lore" in Folklore Forum [21] 1975: "Uncle Absie Morrison's Historical Tunes" in Mid-South ...
He published over 100 articles in professional journals, magazines and was the author or editor of nine books: Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson (1973), Indiana Place Names (1975), Hoosier Folk Legends (1984), Jokelore: Humorous Folktales from Indiana (1986), French Folklife in Old Vincennes (1989), The Study of Place Names (1991 ...
The journal was established in 1942 as the Hoosier Folklore Bulletin and continued in 1945 as Hoosier Folklore. [2] It was renamed in 1951 as Midwest Folklore (ISSN 0544-0750) [3] [4] and continued from 1964 to 1983 under Richard Dorson as the Journal of the Folklore Institute (ISSN 0015-5934), obtaining its current name in 1984. [5]
Hoosier / ˈ h uː ʒ ər / is the official demonym for the people of the U.S. state of Indiana.The origin of the term remains a matter of debate; [1] however, "Hoosier" was in general use by the 1840s, [2] having been popularized by Richmond resident John Finley's 1833 poem "The Hoosier's Nest". [2]
Her fiction (novels, stories, children's stories) weaves folk beliefs into the narrative. Throughout her life, Musick was a passionate activist on behalf of animals (she was a vegetarian from the age of six), justice for Native Americans, and environmental causes, activist in her writings against mountaintop removal mining, acid rain, and other ...
Shriner was born Herbert Arthur Schriner in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Edith (née Rockwell) and Peter Schriner. [2]He moved to Fort Wayne as a small child, when his mother left his father.