Edith E Cutting

Lore of an Adirondack County

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collecting songs, stories, and sayings passed down in her familyand in those of their friends and neighbors in Essex County, New YorkEdith E. Cutting provides an invaluable compilation of Adirondack folklore, from lumberjack songs to tall tales about drinking, hunting, and French Canadians. Also included are legends about hidden treasure, weather lore, stories about ghosts and witches, recollections of folk medicines and children's games, and popular songs and ballads. Originally published by Cornell University Press in 1944, Lore of an Adirondack County remains a fresh and charming account of the folkways of New York State, showing how a single Adirondack family, aided by willing neighbors, 'yarned' and sang in the hills above Lake Champlain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 86
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780801476167
• ISBN-10: 080147616X
• Artikelnr.: 28035851

Autorenporträt

Edith E. Cutting is a former English high school teacher and the author of several collections of New York State folklore. She coedited, with Harold W. Thompson, A Pioneer Songster: Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript of Western New York, 1841-1856, also from Cornell.