sketch by Cathy Barton
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:
Old Time Square
Dance in Forsyth,
May 9. Check the calendar page for details…
By request: we’re
starting a page on Missouri/Midwestern proverbs…
New! A gallery of Missouri barns
photographed by Dr. David Gillette, of Truman State University
Due to popular demand (that's
right), in September 2009, after a year's hiatus, the Little Dixie
Old-Time Fiddle Club will return to the Boone-Walters Historical Museum in
southeast Columbia, Missouri. The sessions will again be held on each
first and third Thursday of the month, September through May, from 5.00 to 8.00
pm. Of more info, go to the calendar page, or call the Boone County
Historical Society, (573) 443-8936, email BCHS@Socket.Net, or Howard (Rusty)
Marshall, club secretary, (573) 642-6226, email HMarshall@Socket.Net.
Jim Vandergriff needs your help with his snakelore
project. Click
here to fill out a simple survey.
New or renewing member? Click here for the
membership form.
Students and
teachers: click
here for information about the Dolf and Becky Schroeder
Foundation Folklore Scholarships
Editor’s
choice: check this link for Hobo signs and signals – how gentlemen of the
road communicate about prospects for handouts, chances for work, and mean dogs:
http://www.slackaction.com/signroll.htm
The fiddle events
calendar is provided by Wyatt’s Fiddle Shop, L.C.
Winners of the 2008 Missouri
State Fiddling Championship, August 17, 2008, Sedalia, Missouri
Please contribute to the Rebecca
B. and Adolph E. Schroeder Endowment Fund -- to honor the two people most
responsible for the revival of the
Click here for a listing of ongoing and developing projects and folklore collections to which you can contribute.
Click here for a great way to support your society and your local library at the same time
-Links especially for members of MFS
Officers and Board of Directors
-Some of our members, and how to contact them
-For Students and Teachers: the MFS Student Essay Contest
-Calendar of Upcoming Missouri folklore and folk arts events
- Books received at the journal, waiting for a reviewer like you
-Missouri folk music (with special emphasis on fiddling, of course)
-Projects, exhibitions and publications of interest to Missouri folklorists
-Tributes to Missouri Folklore Society Members and their work, past and present:
For students and teachers -- a guide to fieldwork
and to working with
folklore and tradition-bearers in the classroom
-Study Folklore at Universities in Missouri -- a guide, under development
-Please support our fundraiser:
Clyde Faries presents
A Bunch of Time: Heritage Songs in Honor of Charles Farris
-Notes and Queries for Missouri Folklorists, including online books and articles by our members
-Eyecandy for Missouriana enthusiasts
-Ozark Mountain imagery for your computer
We're collecting photos of your Missouri Folklore related people, places and events, as well as MFS members' emails and URLs for those who'd like to have that information listed here. If you have comments or suggestions, especially for broken or additional links, email webmaster at:
or snailmail: Adam Brooke Davis
College of Arts & Sciences
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO 63501
(660)785-7200
This page appears courtesy of Truman State
University,
with special thanks to Prof. Heinz Woehlk
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last
updated 4-27-09