The Hodag and Other Tales of the Logging Camps
Author : Lake Shore Kearney
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN :
Author : Lake Shore Kearney
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN :
Author : Lake Shore Kearney
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN :
Author : Michael Edmonds
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0870204718
Every American has heard of the lumberjack hero Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. For 100 years his exploits filled cartoons, magazines, short stories, and children's books, and his name advertised everything from pancake breakfasts to construction supplies. By 1950 Bunyan was a ubiquitous icon of America's strength and ingenuity. Until now, no one knew where he came from—and the extent to which this mythical hero is rooted in Wisconsin. Out of the Northwoods presents the culture of nineteenth-century lumberjacks in their own words. It includes eyewitness accounts of how the first Bunyan stories were shared on frigid winter nights, around logging camp stoves, in the Wisconsin pinery. It describes where the tales began, how they moved out of the forest and into print, and why publication changed them forever. Part bibliographic mystery and part social history, Out of the Northwoods explains for the first time why we all know and love Paul Bunyan.
Author : Leslie Umberger
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568987286
The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a compulsion to transform their personal surroundings into works of art. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has undertaken the mission to preserve these environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book features the work of twenty-two vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art-making vary widely but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, such as Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in California, tosites lost over the years such as Emery Blagdon's six hundred elaborate "Healing Machines," made of copper, aluminum, tinfoil, magnets, ribbons, farm-machinery parts, painted light bulbs, beads, coffee-can lids, and more. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds is the first book to explore these spectacularly offbeat spaces in detail.From "Original Rhinestone Cowboy" Loy Bowlin's wall-to-wall glitter-and-foil living room to the concrete bestiary of "witch of Fox Point" Mary Nohl, each artist and project is described in detail through a wealth of visuals and text. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds reminds us that our decorative choices tell the world not just what we like but who we are.
Author : Edward McClelland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1948742241
America's first superheroes lived in the Midwest. There was Nanabozho, the Ojibway man-god who conquered the King of Fish, took control of the North Wind, and inspired Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. Paul Bunyan, the larger-than-life North Woods lumberjack, created Minnesota's 10,000 lakes with his giant footsteps. More recently, Pittsburgh steelworker Joe Magerac squeezed out rails between his fingers, and Rosie the Riveter churned out the planes that won the world's most terrible war. In Folktales and Legends of the Middle West, Edward McClelland collects these stories and more. Readers will learn the sea shanties of the Great Lakes sailors and the spirituals of the slaves following the North Star across the Ohio River, and be frightened by tales of the Lake Erie Monster and Wisconsin's dangerous Hodag. A history of the region as told through its folklore, music, and legends, this is a book every Midwestern family should own.
Author : Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135917140
Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources.
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Wisconsin
ISBN : 0873517113
Author : B.A. Botkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000679470
This stimulating anthology, prepared by the great folklorist, B.A. Botkin, is comprised of the traditional songs, stories, customs, and beliefs which have been handed down, by word of mouth, for so long that they seem to have a life of their own. For Botkin, they are at the core of peoplehood. When one thinks of American folklore one thinks not only of the folklore of American life, the traditions that have sprung up on American soil, but also of the literature of folklore, the migratory traditions that have found a home in the New World.
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Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : William Thomas Cox
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780343384692
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