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Box 65

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

A collection of Polack jokes / Margie McRae, 1969

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 1
Identifier: FA 1 Item 703
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Margie McRae for her Spring 1969 English 391 class. A collection of ethnic Pollack jokes. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various Pollack jokes, such as about their intelligence, physical inadequacy and more.

Dates: 1969

Recipes that have been passed down within families / Cynthia Page, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 2
Identifier: FA 1 Item 704
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Cynthia Page for her Fall 1986 English 391 class. About food and cooking in America, and the various recipes and cooking traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various bread recipes, holiday specialties, desserts, and various other foods.

Dates: 1986

Deer hunting : the truest tall tales / Lezlie Andrus, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 705
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Lezlie Andrus for her Fall 1986 English 391 class. About the various tall tales within the hunting community. Contains a cover essay, autobiographcial sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include deer hunters who really are not, getting the deer to the car, strange ways to get a deer, other factors enter into the hunt, and more.

Dates: 1986

Folklore in the food business / Jennilyn Babcock, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 4
Identifier: FA 1 Item 706
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Jennilyn Babcock for her Fall 1986 English 391 class. About the culture and stories of waitresses and the food serving business in general. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include uniforms as a folk costume, stories and superstitions, uniue use of language, pranks, and more.

Dates: 1986

Folk medicine in Wasatch county / Launa Murdock Nielson, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 5
Identifier: FA 1 Item 707
Scope and Contents

Submitted by Launa Murdock Nielson for her Fall 1986 English 391 class. About the traditional cures for sickness that people along the Wasatch front in Utah use. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include cures for burns and open wounds, sore throats, cold, stomach aches, general good health habits, cure for cancer, and other medical cures.

Dates: Other: 1986

Priesthood blessings of Mormon culture / Helen Huntsman, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 6
Identifier: FA 1 Item 708
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Helen Huntsman for her Fall 1986 English 392 class. About the use of Mormon priesthood in caring and healing for others. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include missionaries experiences with priesthood blessings, preisthood blessings bringing comfort, curing illness, unusual blessings, and more.

Dates: 1986

Christmas traditions / Jane Kestner, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 7
Identifier: FA 1 Item 709
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Jane Kestner for her Fall 1986 English 391 class. About various Christmas traditions and the differences between each family's traditions. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include counting down to Christmas, Christmas ornaments, various gifts and service traditions, and Christmas Eve and Day traditions.

Dates: 1986

Prostitution at BYU / Christopher Jensen, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 8
Identifier: FA 1 Item 710
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Christopher Jensen for his Fall 1986 English 391 class. About the "local legend" of BYU girls creating a prostitution ring in BYU housing. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various accounts of the prostitution ring at BYU, and the common elements in each.

Dates: 1986

Backpacking and camping folklore / Cheryl Stewart, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 9
Identifier: FA 1 Item 711
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Cheryl Stewart for her Fall 1986 English 391 class. About the folklore and culture of backpacking and hiking in the United States. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include backpacking and camping traditions, backpack recipes, favorite backpack and camping songs, and practical jokes, campfire stories and more.

Dates: 1986

Dating rituals and customs at BYU / Elizabeth Caldwell, 1986

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 10
Identifier: FA 1 Item 712
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Elizabeth Caldwell for her Fall 1986 English 391 class. About the dating culture of BYU students aged 18-25. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include attitudes on dating and marriage, routiens for and on a date, typical dates at BYU, Kissing, and getting engaged.

Dates: 1986