Folklore Papers

Scope and Content
A graduate seminar class on Folklore and Folk Life is offered periodically at the State University of West Georgia. The course is taught by Dr. Ann McCleary, Director of the Center for Public History. Papers contained in this collection represent student work in the seminar. The papers address folklore topics related to traditions and places in Georgia, with the exception of one comparative look at folklore guiding the practice of midwifery in British Colonial American and in rural 20th century Alabama. The collection is on-going, meaning that other papers will be added to it over time. Topics related to Georgia address folklore and folk life surrounding fishing, mill villages, and rural schools and camps in Carroll and Coweta Counties, as well as an examination of the roles of Gwinnett County women in the folk tradition of camp meetings at one particular religious camp there.

Box and Folder Listing
At present, the collection is held in one Hollinger box. Each folder in the box contains one paper. Folders are arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the author of the paper:
• Bostwick, Heather. “Poor Man’s Game: National Baseball Folk Narratives Versus the Baseball Traditions of Northwest Georgia During the Great Depression”
• Chambers, Helen. “It’s All Just Child’s Play, Or Is It?: Children’s Folklore and the Learning Environment in Rural Carroll County, Georgia”
• Erwin, Emily. “Fishing Folklore: Gone Fishin’”
• Moon, Lee. “The Oral Traditions of Woodland Christian Camp”
• Smith, Laura. “Midwifery: Folk Practices in British Colonial America and the 20th Century African American South”
• Thomas, Deborah. “Lawrenceville Camp Meeting and Women’s Roles in the 20th Century”
• Twomey, Nancy. “Mill Life at Sargent, Georgia”

Search terms/Key words
Carroll County; folklore; folk life; religion; Georgia; New England; rural schools; mill village life

Updated: November 21, 2003