The serious development of the folklorist art coincided with the perfection of the tape recorder and the consequent ability of nit-pickers to prove that old Tennessee mountaineers hadn’t the faintest ...

Folklorist and oral history pioneer Mody Boatright was no stranger to the tall tale. Raised in a West Texas ranching family in the early decades of the twentieth century, he was descended from ...

Danny B. Stewart, creator of The Original Provo Utah Ghost Tour, directs a local a ghost tour. (Danny B. Stewart) Ghosts, local folklore, the power of thoughts and the human experience. Danny B.

Jane Beck has spent most of her 74 years telling other people’s stories. The founder of the Vermont Folklife Center has recorded the oral histories of local quarry workers, quilters, farmers, ...

Artistic inspiration can come from pretty much anywhere. Romantic love is basically responsible for the entirety of popular music, give or take, and no small number of history’s most important works ...

Brilliant, complicated, dogged, difficult and motivated by things grander than money, Robert “Mack” McCormick died in 2015 leaving behind a trove of research that historians treated as Indiana Jones ...