Research Catalog

Title

Features and fillers : Texas journalists on Texas folklore / Jim Harris, editor ; Carolyn Satterwhite, assistant editor.

Publication

Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Harris, Jim, 1942-

Description

v, 233 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The writings in Features and Fillers are a sampling of Texas traditional life in the last half of the 20th century. These full-time and part-time journalists have worked many years for large and small newspapers, ranging from far West Texas to deep East Texas, from the Panhandle to the Valley. Their subjects reflect the writers' own interests, but they reflect also the interests of the people in their communities.
• Their subjects are the traditions, customs, and practices of the people in communities as diverse as the state is wide. Their subjects are the folklore of Texas."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 56

Uniform Title

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 56.

Subjects

• Folklore > Press coverage > Texas
• American newspapers > Texas
• Folklore > Texas

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Dedication / Paul Patterson -- Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore / Jim Harris -- A Legend Runs Through It / Bryan Woolley -- The Weeping Woman / John O. West -- Bois d'Arc Recollections / Ernestine Linck and Charles Linck -- Prescriptions for Ailments Did Not Always Find a Cure and Dyin' Easy and Several Other Ways of Crossing Over and Departing This Life / Joyce Gibson Roach -- Musing on Distant, Faded Glories of the Days of Radio / Robert J. Duncan -- Unknowingly, Security Guard Takes on KKK / Robert J. Duncan -- Four Musings on Bad Roosters / Henry Wolff, Jr. -- The Ol' Red Rooster Learns a Hard Lesson / Lora B. Garrison -- Hallie Stillwell Will Live on in Memories / Kent Biffle -- Ex-Sheriff's Tale Is One for History Books / Kent Biffle -- Tales of a Rural School Teacher / Lou Rodenberger -- The New Year Hasn't Always Started January 1; Valentine's Day: How It All Began; and Columbus Day Roots Are in This Century / Archie McDonald --
• Texas' Oddest Animal / Jerry Turner -- What Mrs. Rives Found in Gilmer / Sarah Greene -- He 'Woodn't' Trade Hobby for Anything / John Fooks -- The Ghosts of Bill Longley; Bill Longley on the Gallows; and Haunted by Bill Longley / A. C. Greene -- Weather Lore Isn't All Wet / Stanley Marcus -- Animals Dominate Our Language / Stanley Marcus -- Brilliant Brickmanship / Allan Turner -- History as Close as a Turntable / Allan Turner -- Working Hard, Joking Hard on the Frontier / Lawrence Clayton -- Cow Chip Tea / Haywood Hygh -- Orient Hotel Saw Good Times and Bad / Elmer Kelton -- El Ojo and Other Folk Beliefs / Joe Graham -- The Cleo Face / Mike Cox -- Dr. J. Mason Brewer / James W. Byrd -- Dusting Out / Francis Edward Abernethy -- Alfonso's Yearly Routine / T. Lindsay Baker -- Making the Rattlesnake Roundup Circuit / T. Lindsay Baker -- Rayon Dresses and FDR / T. Lindsay Baker -- A Collection of Poems / Jean Schnitz -- Gold Diggers / Patrick Dearen --
• Chicken-fried Steak Tour through Texas / Alan Solomon -- Cowboy Poet Honored by Peers / Peggy McCracken -- Telling "Tales" Keeps Patterson Busy and Happy / Rosie Flores.

ISBN

1574410741 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99016387

OCLC

ocm41531562

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries