The Missouri Folklore Society The Missouri Folklore Society was organized December 15, 1906, "to encourage the collection, preservation and study of folklore in the widest sense, including customs, institutions, beliefs, signs, legends, language, literature, musical arts, and folk arts and crafts of all ethnic groups throughout the State of Missouri." snailmail: P.O. Box 1757 Columbia, MO 65205
	It has been a hard year, friends. In Memoriam: Adolf Schroeder In Memoriam: Claude Barton New from Howard Marshall and the University of Missouri Press: Play Me Something Quick and Devilish: Old Time Fiddlers in Missouri.  The book includes an audio CD; you can hear some clips and read Howard's commentary at the UMP Blogspot. Planning moves forward for the November meeting at Potosi's Trout Lodge. Click here for the announcement Click here for the Call for participation & registration form (a printable document to fill out and mail in) Please note: we need rooms booked by August 7, or we lose our entire reservation. We have opened a page for you to share your observations, documentation or get answers to your Mo Folklore questions. Click here for Notes and Queries. Students -- apply for the Dolf and Becky Schroeder prize in folklore! New or renewing member? Click here for the membership form (.pdf to print and mail) Links especially for members of MFS Click here for a listing of ongoing and developing projects and folklore collections to which you can contribute. Your help needed: John and Carol Fisher are preparing an issue of MFSJ devoted to food and foodways Support your Missouri Folklore Society: music and opportunities to donate Now accepting submissions for Missouri Folklore Studies, an online archive of occasional papers on the traditions of Missouri and its residents. Click here to send a note to the newsletter editor on Missouri folklore, folklife or folkarts people and events; please note: the Missouri Folklore Society will not share its membership list with any individual or organization, nor do we accept paid advertising. This page appears courtesy of Truman State University Hit Counter last updated 4-5-13 index
The Missouri Folklore Society Journal The Missouri Folklore Society Newsletter Our main page of links: regional and national folklore organizations, genres, reference and online collections Calendar of Upcoming Missouri folklore and folklife events Editor's choice: sites especially worthy of a Missouri folklorist's attention Missouri Folklore Studies: an online archive of occasional papers, essays and documentation Resources for educators and students listed by: