Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Georganna A. Huff for her Spring 1974 English 564 class. About the author's father's stories that he told himself, and that others told about him to preserve a bit of their family's tradition for future generations. Contains a cover essay, autobiograhpical sketch, informant abstracts, and informant stories. Stories include the Willow Switch, The Molasses pit when they set a trap for their teacher, experimenting with chewing tobacco as a teen, working with Indians and...

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Barrus analyzes personal narratives about alien encounters or experiences with Unidentified Flying Objects. Discusses the idea of government conspiracy to cover up evidence of aliens and UFOs. Describes the opinion held by some that aliens created human beings or helped them to advance as a species. Identifies common elements in alien encounter or abduction stories. Created by Julia Barrus while she was enrolled in Jill Terry Rudy's English 391 class during Winter Semester 2003.

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Tohara collected alien abduction stories from her family. Included are stories of young children that react strangely to alien dolls, women who see bright lights late at night, and abductees that see a spiritual element to the aliens they met. Project was created for and English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1999.

Scope and Contents note Turley examines the motivation, emotions, and history behind the "spontaneous shrines" created by the general American public in association with the Vietnam War. These spontaneous shrines are described as items, often photographs, medals, letters, clothing and teddy bears that are left at a place of remembrance in an unofficial, yet deeply personal and meaningful way. In addition, a brief overview of the Vietnam War in the terms of personal, cultural and social impacts is discussed. Created...

Scope and Contents note This project contains stories of the happiest moments or favorite memories of participants from Brigham Young University, Provo. The collector comments that these items all share the commonality of "belonging." This fifteen item collection contains stories about family games, vacations, Mormon temple experiences, family Christmases, Mormon mission experiences, family sports outings, and working with family. Collected by Bently Snow, Dr. Jacqueline Thursby's ENG 356, section 01 class of...

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Packer writes about supernatural religious legends relating to missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their encounters with evil spirits. Packer was in Eric Eliason's English 392 course at Brigham Young University in 2001.

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Buhrer collected ethnic jokes and discussed why active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would know and share these. Included are jokes about African Americans, Mexicans, and Southerners. The project was written for Dr. Eliason's English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

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Submitted by BYU student Hailey Bennett for her English 391 fall course for Dr. Jill Rudy. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. About the popularity of theaters in Utah. Include interviews on how Utah County theater has impacted LDS and LGBTQ+ culture.