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Craw analyzes the possible motivations for the intense amount of local pride in the town of Minersville, Utah (nicknamed Punkin'town). She finds that most members of Minersville believe that they are chosen people who must demonstrate their supremacy through acts of generosity and through building the community. Created by Jennifer C. Craw when she was enrolled in Eric Eliason's English 391 course in Fall 2003.

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Lisa Ann Jackson collected personal narratives about initiation pranks played on new sister missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are stories about having strong members play at being less active members, giving them fake referrals, and dressing up an elder as a sister missionary to pick up the new missionary. Project was written for an English class taught at Brigham Young University in 1995.

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Smith writes about the first dates of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Project was created for Thursby's English 356 class at Brigham Young University.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Peggy Wiseman for her Fall 1976 English 391 class. About the various flood stories of Rexburg and Sugar City in Idaho. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant list, and informant items. Items include stories like This is a dedicated farmer here, She said I was crazy, We're on Fire, He Figured it was no big deal, That guy looked kind of blank, He was praying, Pres. Kimball had a meeting, A house on stilts, a joke, Dry Cleaners burns, What shall we...

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DeVocht collected examples of creative answering machine messages of unmarried students at Brigham Young University. Included are messages using quotes from famous people, funny observations, and jokes about dating culture. The project was written for Dr. Eliason's English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

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Barbara Lee Bosen collected personal narratives of Western folklore. Included are stories of cowboys, a sharp-shooting sheriff, and watercolor sketches of events and landscapes. Project was written for Dr. Cheney's folk poetry class taught in January of 1963.

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Wright collected songs about the Southern United states from her Mother. Included are songs titled "Blue Spanish Eyes," "South of the Boarder," "Rose's Cantina," "Navajo Trail," "The Streets of Laredo," "The Alamo," "St. Patrick" and "Sweet Violets." Project was created for Dr. Rudy's English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

Scope and Contents Melanie Westover collected stories from her family members. Included are stories of about a father who mowed his initials into the law every week and painted his garage in a checkerboard pattern, a man proposing to his wife after messing up her hair to see if she'd look good in the morning, and a mother who took her sunday school class to her house one Sunday because she didn't want to miss the World Series. Project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University...

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Honaker discusses a collection of emotionally touching, humorous and frighteningly dangerous folklore stories pertaining to initiatory experiences at scout and girl's camps. Honaker then analyzes these experiences on a camping, maturing and human experience spectrum. Created by Kiersten Honaker while enrolled in Jacqueline Thursby's English 356 class during fall semester of 2002.

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Jill Terry collected personal narratives about the Terry family that came up during the course of a family conversation. Included are stories of cooking and food, family arrangements (seating, sleeping, bathing), fears, relationships with family and others, entertainment, sayings, disease, and childhood memories. Project was written for an English 667 class taught at Brigham Young University during Spring term 1988.