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- Individual back issues are priced at $2 or $5 per issue.
- Orders of five or more issues merit a 20% discount.
Membership Specials
Members joining the Society or renewing their memberships receive a choice of free back issues. Single-year memberships merit one $2 back issue; two-year renewals merit a $5 back issue or three $2 issues. For membership categories and dues, consult the Society's membership page. Send membership dues and back issue list to N.C. Folklore Society, P.O. Box 62271, Durham, NC 27715.
Volume 24, Number 1: Joseph Clark, Madstones in North Carolina. ($2)
Volume 24, Number 2: Kathy Johnson, "The Legend of the Bell Witch"; Joanna Godwin, "The Stallion's Braided Mane"; Joseph F. Gallehugh, Jr., "The Vampire Beast of Bladenboro"; Connie Stone, "Witches of Iredell County"; Lyn Cunningham and Sherry Honeycutt, "Sampson County Ghosts"; Lovelace B. Pugh, "Pap's Still"; Tom Stevens, "A Fishing Story"; Patricia McGaha, "Death Omens"; Beverly King, "Blaalox's Bull"; 1976 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award Citations for Doc And Merle Watson (Rogers Whitener), Cratis Williams (Joseph D. Clark), and Richard Walser (Harry C. West). ($2)
Volume 25, Number 2: James Leloudis II, "Tokens of Death: Tales of Perquimans County"; Marilyn Whitley, "The Burial of the Dead: Customs, Beliefs, and Superstitions from Franklin County, North Carolina"; Daniel Patterson, "Recent Recordings of North Carolina Folklore: Part II of a Regional Discography"; Frank and Anne Warner, "Wictory [sic] Shall Be Mine"; Daniel W. Patterson, "Notes from the Folklore Archives at UNC-Chapel Hill"; Joshua Lee, "A Recipe for Home-Grown Chewing Tobacco"; reviews by Brett Sutton, Jesse Jackson, and George Monteiro. ($2)
Volume 29, Number 1: Rogers Whitener, Selections from Folk-Ways and Folk Speech. Stories from Whitener's weekly newspaper column. (Short supply, $5).
Volume 29, Number 2: Richard Walser, "Guy and Folklore" (obituary for novelist Guy Owen); Ann Williams, "The Alexander Family "Kentucky Beauty": The Unraveling of a Coverlet Draft"; Frank Schmalleger, "The Root Doctors and the Courtroom"; Joseph D. Clark, "North Carolina Madstones: A Second and Final Supplement"; T. H. Macintosh, "The Devil's Shoe String: A Cure for Rattlesnake Bites"; Joseph D. Clark, "Two Daniel Boone Legends"; Joseph S. Hufham, "The End of Patty Haig"; William H. Beezley, "'Better Ag than Fag!' And Other Carolina Jokes"; review by Lucy M. Long. ($2)
Volume 34, Number 1: Brown-Hudson Folklore Award Citations for Bertie Mae Dickens (Cece Conway), Arthur James Wooten (Cece Conway), and George Mahon Holt (Daniel W. Patterson); Tanja Kim Johnson, "Morrison's Café: A Study of Community and Social Change in Winston-Salem"; James W. Thompson, "The Origins of the Hicks Family Traditions"; Mary Seelhorst, "'The Assailant in Disguise': Old and New Functions of Urban Legends About Women Alone in Danger"; Luke A. Powers, "The Art of Meditation in Afro-American Folksong: Roy Dunn's Holy Blues"; Sandra Elingburg, "Mountain Breed: Western North Carolina Tales"; Karen Linn, "An Interview with Mrs. Bertie Dickens, Old-Time Banjo Player"; Reviews by John Burrison and Elon Kulii.($2)
Volume 34, Number 2: 1986 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award citations for Betty DuPree: Promoter of the Traditional Cherokee Arts (Thomas McGowan) and Adolf Dial: Lumbee Scholar and Traditional Bearer (Betty Oxendine); Ingrid K. Towey, "Literacy and Alienation in the Novels of Zora Neale Hurston"; Julie Henigan, "'Mother Bake My Cake and Kill My Cock': Social Structure and the Irish and American Jack Tales." ($2)
Volume 35, Number 1: Laurel Horton,
"Quilt Patterns in the Frank C. Brown Collection"; Camilla C.
Collins, "Folklore and State History: An Annotated Bibliography of
Folklore and Folklife Material in the North Carolina Historical Review";
Betsy Bowden, "The Oral Life of the Written Ballad of The Wanton
Wife of Bath." ($2)
Volume 35, Number 2: 1987 and 1988
Brown-Hudson Folklore Awards for Bertha Mangum Landis (Daniel Patterson),
Lauchlin Shaw (Wayne Martin), Thomas Burt (Glenn D. Hinson), and Leonidas
Judd Betts, Jr. (Thomas McGowan), The Badgett Sisters: Celester Sellars,
Connie Steadman, & Cleonia Graves (Margaret Martin), Eva Wolfe: Traditional
Basketweaver (Molly Blankenship), Ernest East (Andy Cahan), Guy Benton
Johnson (Lynn Moss Sanders). Keith Cunningham, " 'On Being': Tom
Davenport's North Carolina Films"; W. H. Ward, "Joy in the Coming
Home"; review by Howard Dorgan; Karen D. Hatton, "Why Jesse
Fought for Both Sides: Family Anecdotes from the Civil War"; Jochen
Welsch, "Tying Tails: Oxen in North Carolina Folk Culture";
Christopher J. Lucht, "Medieval vs. Modern: Anecdotes from the Society
for Creative Anachronism"; Christopher S. Stepp, "Corn Shucking:
A Way to Work and Play." ($2)
Volume 36, Number 1 Special issue on A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle: Filmscript of the Tom Davenport Film A Singing Stream; Allen Tullos, Daniel W. Patterson, and Tom Davenport, "A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle," background to the making of the film. ($2)
Volume 36, Number 2: 1989 Brown-Hudson Folklore Awards for Julian Guthrie (Rodney Barfield), Richard "Big Boy" Henry (Connie Mason), David Stick (Thomas McGowan). Cheryl Oxford, "The Storyteller as Craftsman: Stanley Hicks Telling 'Jack and the Bull'"; Roy Armstrong, II, "Miss Emily and Miss Olive and the Legend of the Devil's Hoof Prints of Bath"; reviews by Judith Shulimson and Joey Brackner. ($2)
Volume 37, Number 1: Lynn Moss Sanders, "An Introduction to Essays from the 1989 Society Student Contest"; Laura L. Feather, "The Looneaters: Foodways and Change on Harkers Island"; Laura L. Buchanan, "Child 78: An Explication of "The Unquiet Grave" "; Patricia M. Gantt, "'Not Quite Snowflakes': Traditional Basketweaving in North Carolina's Hot-Air Balloon Industry"; Blanche Duett, "Folklore and Policing: A Tool for Learning"; Timothy Duffy, "A Monday Night Picking Party at Greene Acres"; reviews by William E. Lightfoot and Howard Dorgan.($2)
Volume 39, Number 2: 1992 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award citations for Otho Willard (Wayne Martin), George Higgs (Scott Ainslie), Dorothy Spruill Redford (Karen Baldwin & Thomas McGowan), Karen Baldwin (Polly Stewart); 1992 North Carolina Folklore Society Community Tradition Award citation for Sharp Point Volunteer Fire Department (Karen Baldwin). Catherine Peck, "Local Character Anecdotes Down East"; A. Everette James and Pattie Virginia Royster James, "Artful Arliss Watford: North Carolina Wood Carver"; Joseph Daniel Sobol, "Jack of a Thousand Faces: The Jack Tales as Appalachian Hero Cycle." ($2)
Volume 40, Number 2: Archie Green, "A Literary Contribution to the Creation of an American Folk Hero: Dan Tucker in Roanoke"; Mary Anne McDonald, "Scenes from a Marriage: Working on the Tarboro African American Quilt Exhibit." 1993 Brown-Hudson Folklore Awards citations: Mattye Reed (Elon Kulii), Phramaha Somsak Sambimb (Barbara Lau), George and Donnis SerVance (Glenn Hinson); David E. Whisnant (George Holt); 1993 Community Traditions Award citation for Guilford Native American Association (Thomas McGowan). A. Everette James, "Claude Richardson: Haliwa-Saponi Carver"; Jack Bernhardt, "Odell Thompson (1911-1994)"; Patricia Gantt, "A Guide to Using Eight-Hand Sets and Holy Steps in the Classroom." ($2)
Volume 41, Number 1: Barbara A. Lau, "A Woman at the Wheel: Issues of Gender in a North Carolina Pottery Tradition"; Tess Lloyd, "Making Heritage: Bob O"Deere and Town Fork Produce"; George Rhyne Hovis, "Industry Meets Agriculture: The Emergence of the Farmer/Peddler in the Carolina Piedmont"; Patrick Sky, " "Otto Wood the Bandit": A North Carolina Ballad"; Valerie Huisingh, "'The Nun in the Trash Can': The Personal Experience Narratives of Robert Jungers"; Melissa Daniel, "Tattoos: The Art on Folks." ($2)
Volume 41, Number 2: 1994 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award citations for Archie Green (David E. Whisnant), Bessie Eldreth (Patricia E. Sawin), Julie Jarrell Lyons (Cecelia Conway), Glenn Douglas Hinson (Charles G. Zug, III, and Mary Anne McDonald; 1994 Community Traditions Award citation for PineCone: The Piedmont Council of Traditional Music (Jack Bernhardt). Joseph Daniel Sobol, "Growing Up with Jack in Haywood County: The Backgrounds and Development of Donald Davis's Storytelling"; Polly Stewart, "The North Carolina Folklore Society's 1993 Student Contest: A Review Essay"; W. Amos Abrams, "Ay, Now I Am in Rodanthe . . ."; Lynn Ester, "Collecting a Ghostly Legend from Bear Grass"; review by Lucy Powell. ($2)
Volume 42, Number 1: Adrienne Hollifield, "Family Tradition, Orality, and Cultural Intervention in Sodom Laurel Ballad Singing"; Jane M. Harwell, "Ed Briggs: Reviving a Traditional Craft with a Contemporary Eye"; Ronan K. Peterson, "Sanging in Poplar, North Carolina: Zelotes Peterson, Ginseng Hunter" ($2)
Volume 43, Number 1: 1996 Community Traditions Award citation for Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild (Carmine Prioli). Erika Brady, "Essays from the 1995 Society Student Contest: An Appreciation"; Margaret Marion Danforth, "Vision and Testimony: The Life Review Narratives of Grace Sink Cooper"; Andrea Jones, "'Here Lies the Body': Eighteenth-Century Gravestones in the Alamance Presbyterian Churchyard and Their Symbolic Meanings"; C. Renee Love, "Johnston County Ghost Stories." ($2)
Volume 43, Number 2: "1996 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award citations for James Allen Rose (Michael B. Alford), Michael B. Alford (Connie Mason), Wayne & Margaret Martin (George Holt). Amy Davis, "'Deep in My Heart': Competition and the Function of Stepping in an African American Sorority"; Alicia J. Rouverol, "'Hot,' 'Cool' and 'Getting Down': African American Style and Aesthetics in Stepping"; Lisa J. Yarger, "'That's . . . Where Stepping Came From': Afrocentricity and Beliefs about Stepping"; Carmine Prioli, "The Harkers Island Work Boat: Draft Horse of the Carolina Sounds"; James A. Bailey, "Santeria and Palo Mayombe: The Presence of Afro-Cuban Artifacts at Wrightsville Beach"; Stephen C. Compton, "The Power of Tradition in the Forms of Potter Charlie Boyd Craven"; Samantha McCluney-Criswell & Stephen Criswell, "'All the Busy Humming of the World Outside': The Evolution of the Lincoln Academy Legend"; review by T. J. Arant. ($5)
Volume 44, Numbers 1 & 2: The North Carolina Folk Heritage Awards (1989-1996). Citations from North Carolina Folk Heritage Awards and photographs of winners; Thomas McGowan, "Signs and Acts of Community: The North Carolina Folk Heritage Award." ($5)
Volume 45, Number 1: The North Carolina Coastal Folklife Survey (a report of an extensive fieldwork project in Beaufort, Bertie, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washington counties). Wayne Martin & Beverly Patterson, "The North Carolina Folklife Survey: A Preface"; Chapters: Sense of Place, Occupation, Community Life, and Domestic Life edited by Beverly Patterson and based on the fieldwork and analysis of Jill Hemming, W. T. Mansfield, and Ann Kaplan; survey conclusions and recommendations and programming suggestions. ($5)
Volume 45, Number 2: Karen Baldwin, "Editor's Foreword"; Sally Council, "'Pieces Torn From Lives': The North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection"; Gary Stanton, "Blanton Owen " 1945-1998"; Thomas McGowan, "Leonard Glenn " 1910-1997"; Karen Baldwin, "Lester Gay " 1916-1998"; Gladys Salter, Wayne Martin, and Karen Baldwin, "Gladys Salter's Story of the Storm of "33." 1998 & 1999 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award citations for Orville Hicks (Thomas McGowan), Nazaria Munñoz Jaoqauin de Hernandez and Ereneida Duarte de Ocampa (Kate Hanser, bilingual citation), Trudier Harris (Charles G. Zug III), Sheila Kay Adams (Daniel Patterson), Lula Belle and Glenn Bolick (Thomas McGowan), dwaine c. coley (Mary Anne McDonald and Lucy Allen); 1998 Community Traditions Award citation for Alexander County First Sunday Singing Convention (Lucy Allen). Patricia Sawin, "Judge's Comment [on the 1998 Student Contest]"; Ronan Kyle Peterson, "'I'll tell you what--It all depends on the wood': Making Handles with Joe Willis"; reviews by Barbara Duncan, Polly Stewart, and Lucy Allen. ($2)
Volume 46, Numbers 1-2: Comprehensive Index of the North Carolina Folklore Journal: 1961-1998. Complete listing of articles, alphabetical authors list, and exhaustive topical index. ($5)
Special Publication: Scotty Wiseman, Wiseman's View: The Autobiography of Sskyland Scotty Wiseman. New corrected edition of NCFJ 33.1-2 with updated introduction by William Lightfoot, additional photographs of Scotty and Lulu Belle Wiseman, and an afterword by Thomas McGowan. ($5)Volume 47, Number 1: The Ballad of Frankie Silver: Reflections on a Murder. Film script of the Tom Davenport film The Ballad of Frankie Silver with supporting articles by Bobby McMillon, Tom Davenport, Beverly Patterson, Daniel Patterson, Karen Baldwin, and Polly Stewart. ($5)
Volume 47, Number 2: Alice Eley Jones, "West African Spiritualism in North Carolina's Buidings and Crafts"; Richard Walser, "His Worship, the John Kuner" (republished from NCFJ 19.4); Linda Werthwein, "John Konner Revisited"; Laura Sutton, "Lydia Lives at the Jamestown Bridge: A 'Vanishing Hitchhiker' in North Carolina"; Sarah Reuning, "Seven Brides for a Single Gown: Communicating through Clothing in One American Family." 1999 Brown-Hudson Foklore Award citations for Walter and Ray Davenport (Jill Hemming), Bishop Dready Manning (Glenn Hinson and Sally Peterson), Lena Ritter (Karen Amspacher), Martin Bland Simpson (Jim White). Community Traditons Award citation for David's Red Barn (Bill Mansfield) and El Pueblo (Ann Kaplan and Sally Council); 2000 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award Citations: Emmet Parker Jones (Bill Mansfield), Barry & Allen Huffman (Terry Zug and Thomas McGowan), Sally Peterson (Lisa Yarger & Barbara Lau). Citation for Charles G. Zug III's induction into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine (Thomas McGowan). Reviews by Jack Bernhardt & Todd West, Holly Matthews, Susan Gardner, Stephen Criswell, and Lucy Allen. ($5)
Volume 48, Numbers 1-2: Focus on South Carolina. Special collection of articles on South Carolina folklife and its study: Charles Joyner, "Sharing Traditions: Keynote Address to the South Carolina Traditional Arts Network First Annual Conference on Folklore, Folklife, and Traditional Arts"; Stephen Criswell & John Michael Coggeshall, "Greetings from the Guest Editors: South Carolina Welcomes Y"all"; Fran Gardner Perry, "The Cement Sculpture Aesthetic: A Photo Essay"; Paul Matheny, "Face Vessels and Contemporary South Carolina Folk Pottery"; Gale McKinley, "About Fishing, Making Split Oak Baskets, and Other Affairs of Everyday Life: The McKinley Family of Anderson, South Carolina"; Don Roper, "Creativity and Ingenuity on the Mill Hill: Reflections on Cotton Mill Toys and Other Objects"; Vennie Deas-Moore, "'Come Long, Let's Ride This Train': Santee River Testimonies, Praises, and songs"; Michelle Ross, "Bluegrass Passion: South Carolina Traditional Music Advocates Jennings and Willie Chesnut, Guy and Tina Faulk; Julia Arrants, "In Search of Frog's Raccoon"; Saddler Taylor, "South Carolina Hash: By the light of the Moon"; Ervena Faulkner, " "Let Every orsel Be Good to You: Reflections on My South Carolina Food Traditions"; Craig Stinson, "Taqueria El Perico: la comida mexican y la identidad en Colombia, Carolina del Sur"; Lisa Randle, "Cultural Tourism in South Carolina." ($5)
Volume 49, Number 1: Thomas McGowan, "Representing Cratis Williams"; 2001 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award citations for Mary Jane Queen (Betty Smith), Freeman Owle (Barbara Duncan), Betty Smith (Thomas McGowan. 2000 & 2001 Community Traditions Award for Museum of the Cherokee Indian (Tyler Blethen) and El Pueblo, Incorporado (Spanish translation by Michael Schinasi & Ingrid Vernon). ($2)
Volume 49, Number 2: Brenda Gale Beasley, "'Trail of the Whispering Giants': One Man's Monumental Tribute"; citation for the Thomas McGowan Award (Charles G. Zug III); Thomas McGowan, "Four Beech Mountain Jack Tales" (repreinted from NCFJ 26.2); 2002 Brown-Hudson Folklore Awards citations for The Briar Hoppers (Tom Hanchett), Jim Scancarelli (Tom Hanchett); 2002 Community Traditions Award citation for the Charlotte Folk Society (Wanda Hubicki). Reviews by Michael Parker, Randall Martoccia, and Ingrid Vernon. ($2)
Volume 50, Numbers 1-2: Special issue dedicated to the memories of Tommy Thompson and Ray Hicks: Jack Bernhardt, "Tommy Thompson (1937-2003)"; Bland Simpson, "Tommy Thompson: Collector of Folksongs, Composer, and Banjo Player" (1995 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award citation); Orville Hicks and Thomas McGowan, "Remembering Ray Hicks"; William Lewis, "Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum: Performance Traditions of Historically Black College and University Marching Bands"; Stephen Criswell and Samantha McCluney Criswell, "Jesus, Mary, and Frosty: Grady and Katie Costner and the Art of Christmas Yard Displays"; Karen Baldwin, "Cultural Tourists at Mardi Gras--On the Cajun Prairie in Louisiana and 'Downeast' in Carolina"; A. Everette James, "African American Quilts: Patterns and Codes"; exhibit review by Joyce Joines Newman.