Diamond Bessie And The Shepherds

Author : Wilson M. Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781574410570
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamond Bessie and the Shepherds written by Wilson M. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1860s and 1870s, luxury river boats brought U. S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes; financier Jay Gould; writers Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman; and actor Maurice Barrymore, the father of John, Ethel, and Lionel, to "Queen City of the Cypress"--Jefferson, Texas. Among lesser known visitors was Abe Rothschild and his apparent bride, Bessie, dressed in fashionable clothes and wearing many diamonds. The couple went to an unusual midwinter picnic in the woods, and two weeks later the body of Bessie was found in the woods shot through the head. From the three trials that followed came a folk drama, "The Diamond Bessie Murder Trial" presented annually in Jefferson as part of a historical pilgrimage. Los Pastores, (The Shepherds), is a shepherd's play having to do with the epiphany of the Christ child, arises from a tradition reaching back to the Middle Ages. The Pastores tradition is oral, either created or creatively adapted by the Franciscans in Mexico, and performed at Mission San Jose in San Antonio and elsewhere in the Southwest between Christmas and New Year's. In addition to the exploration of these two plays, this folklore miscellany contains essays on the decoration of graves in Central Texas with sea shells; camp meetings with vigorous preaching and religious seizures; Black Easter--April 14, 1935--during the Dust Bowl, when the people of the Texas Panhandle watched a rolling black cloudbank bearing down on them; Semaña Santa (Holy Week) in Seville, Spain; marriage customs in Thessaly and Macedonia; the Johannesburg mine dances, and much more.

Author : Wilson Mathis Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds written by Wilson Mathis Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilson Mathis Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds written by Wilson Mathis Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780929398785
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Folklore Society: 1943-1971 written by Francis Edward Abernethy and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a society that you join because you want to. The purpose of the society is to collect and make known to he public sons and ballads, superstitions, games, plays, and proverbs.

Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574411225
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Folklore Society: 1971-2000 written by Francis Edward Abernethy and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a society that you join because you want to. The purpose of the society is to collect and make known to he public sons and ballads, superstitions, games, plays, and proverbs.

Author : Richard E. Meyer
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726003
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and the American Cemetery written by Richard E. Meyer and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing authors illustrate the book's interdisciplinary focus, with representation from, among others, the fields of folklore, cultural history, historical archeology landscape architecture, and philosophy, heavily illustrated, the volume also features an introductory essay by editor Richard E. Meyer and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Author : Terry G. Jordan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788436
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Graveyards written by Terry G. Jordan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.

Author : Terry G. Jordan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788444
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Log Buildings written by Terry G. Jordan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.

Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780929398570
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corners of Texas written by Francis Edward Abernethy and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the best of the Society's papers over the past three years—from lynchings to el pato boat building; from sunbonnets to hammered dulcimers; from jokes about droughts and lawyers to tales of folk, gospel and blues music; from gravemarkers to bottle trees, and more.

Author : Allen Noble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857723391
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Buildings written by Allen Noble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constancy permits the evolution of types and characteristics to be identified, even in widely spread locations. It helps trace the origins of structures, despite later modifications. And change allows one to trace the effects of difference in environment, fashion, cultural ideas and economic influences. Change and constancy operate together, although one may or other may dominate at a particular time and place. In Vernacular Buildings Allen Noble extends the global survey contained in his earlier highly successful Traditional Buildings, to cover vernacular buildings and dwellings around the world. In a truly comprehensive account, he ranges from the fazenda of the pioneer Brazilian settlers, the Masai dwellings of Tanzania and the gothic houses of Shanghai, to Virginia Hall and Parlor houses, the thatched dwellings of the Eifel region of Germany and the three -decker houses of New York. Acknowledging the value of archival research the author is also firmly convinced of the importance of field observation and the book is extensively illustrated with photographs from his own personal collection. With a comprehensive bibliography, and incorporating new material from cultural geographers, historians, folklorists and anthropologists, Vernacular Buildings is a unique survey that will be welcomed by specialists and enthusiasts alike.