Texas Folklore Society, 1909-1943: Volume I (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society) - Hardcover

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929398424 ISBN 13: 9780929398426

Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 1993

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 this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0929398424
• ISBN 13: 9780929398426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Illustrator: Shaw Charles