T. W. Wells - Lectures to Folklore of the Middle West class, 1962-01-01

RT 398 F666m 1962 no. 13 - 2 CD-ROMs and 2 Audio Cassette Tapes

4 index cards - Folklore of the Middle West, 1962, no. 13; Folk-lore - Kansas; Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas; Wells, Thornton Walton;

Typed and handwritten notes.

T. W. Wells - Lectures to Folklore of the Middle West class at Fort Hays Kansas State College in 1962.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

The lecture begins in progress.

00:00:03 - Rural schools

00:01:38 - Pilot rock

00:02:59 - Rural school experience

00:15:12 - Indigenous American grave on Goose Creek

00:17:08 - The house on Goose Creek

00:19:51 - Planting trees on the homestead

00:21:32 - Description of the family homestead

00:22:24 - Trees on the homestead

00:26:31 - Encounters with snakes

00:30:27 - Chiggers and their treatment

00:33:44 - Headlice and their treatment 00:36:55 - Auditing an art class and art at Pilot Rock school

00:40:02 - Old thrashing machine

00:43:23 - Geese at Cheyenne Bottoms

00:45:34 - Language of folklore

00:46:08 - Games played as a child: Hide and go seek, pull away, dare base, Pennsylvania Dutch, base ball, Annie-over, wrestling, one-hole catch

01:05:26 - First day of school and school experiences

01:26:48 - Chinch bugs and the language of folklore

01:31:45 - Geese at Cheyenne Bottoms