The Texas Folklore Society 1909-1943 Volumes I & II

Abernethy, Francis Edward

ISBN 10: 0929398424 / ISBN 13: 9780929398426

Published by University of North Texas Press, Denton, TX, 1992

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2 volumes.

Seller Inventory # 47154

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Texas Folklore Society 1909-1943 Volumes I & II
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press, Denton, TX
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0929398424
• ISBN 13: 9780929398426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Shaw, Charles
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Americana South

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Synopsis

The Society had its beginnings at the A&M-Texas football game in 1909. John Avery Lomax, a forty-two-year-old A&M English teacher from Harvard and Leonidas Warren Payne, a thirty-six year old UT English professor and linguist, met to discuss establishing a folklore society, as had been suggested by George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard. The announced purpose of the society was to collect and make known to the public songs and ballads, superstitions, signs and omens, cures and peculiar customs, legends, dialects, games, plays, and dances, and riddles and proverbs.

About the Author

FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY was Regents Professor Emeritus of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, the executive secretary and editor of the Texas Folklore Society, the curator of exhibits for the East Texas Historical Association, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. In addition to editing twenty-one Texas Folklore Society publications, he wrote Singin' Texas, Legends of Texas' Heroic Age, and all three volumes of the Texas Folklore Society history, published by the University of North Texas Press.