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Verhaaren collected family recipes and interviewed informants about the recipes' importance. Included are recipes with no back-story, recipes with traditions associated, and recipes with specific personal narratives associated with them. Project was collected for an English 391 class taught by Dr. Eliason at Brigham Young University in 2001.

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Myers interviewed and collected stories from women and men about women in the workplace. Included are jokes told by men about women and housework, women questioning mens' work capabilities, and discussion of gender roles. The project was written for a folklore class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

Scope and Contents note Describes a specific tradition in the author's family: yearly attendance of the Rose parade in California on New Year's Day. Explains several aspects of the tradition, including reserving a spot using lines drawn with flour on Thanksgiving weekend, New Year's Eve celebration at the reserved spot on the parade route, and teenage boys in the family being allowed to stay overnight on the parade route when they are old enough. Mentions rites of passage. Discusses how family traditions get...

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Stories about dating in high school in Provo, Utah. Included are how gentlemen ask for dates, as well as how the girls reject or accept the invitation in a creative way. Project was created for an English 368 taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Amy McClean collected personal narratives of rumors involving teachers. Included are rumors falling into the categories of physical body, employment requirements beyond the norm, eccentric trains, monetary status, and romantic to immoral. Project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1989.

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Submitted by BYU student Matthew Heiss for his Winter 1983 English 392 class. About the stories of the pranks under mission presdient Saager. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant list, and informant items. Items include mission folksongs of the tricksters, mission rituals, comic relief, trickster vacations, triumph of the trickster, trickster backfire, and going home rituals.

Scope and Contents note Summers compiled stories of practical jokes played by missionaries, and discussed the reasons why practical joking is so popular with missionaries. Included are stories of missionaries making a district leader's car smell of cigarette smoke, an elder making his companion's shower cold, and an elder tricking his sleeping companion into saying the closing prayer during a lull in testimony meeting. The project was written for Kristi Bell's English 391 class, taught at Brigham Young University...

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After serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Temple Square Lazeras decided to collect stories and about the Salt Lake Temple, and some of the oddities about it. Included are stories of the temple building process, stories of women being hidden inside the temple, and visions within the temple. Project was created for Dr. Eliason's English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Leinenbach interviewed his father, Rick Leinenbach, about his childhood in a farming family. Included are stories of massive extended family dinners on Sundays, riding pigs with his cousins and getting in to trouble, and near-death experiences. The project was written for Dr. Rudy's English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University in Spring term 2010.

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Sharon Bigelow collected information about the Samuel Douglass House located on 215 North Main, Payson, Utah. Included are a history of the house and its inhabitants, a description of the house and any alterations made to it over the years, and pictures of the house and details. Project was for an Anthropology 315 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1987.