Contents
Preface
I. What’s the Point: Why the Folk Come in the First Place
“Hooked on Texas”
“Beware of Folklore Addiction”
“McDade and Me”
“Mother Lodes of Mexican Lore”
“Bibliography of Mexican-American Folklore Articles”
“Dobie’s Disciples and the Choctaw Five”
“The Texas Folklore Society Was Part of My Life, Long Before I Knew It”
“The Family Nature of the Texas Folklore Society”
II. Books, Papers, and Presentations: Texas Folklore Scholarship
“Collecting and Reading Folklore”
“Books of the TFS”
“Texas Booklore: If It Ain’t Folklore, Then What the He(ck) Is It?”
“How I Came to Be a Publisher of Texas Folklore Society Publications”
“An Enduring Relationship: The Texas Folklore Society and Folk Music”
“African Americans and Texas Folklore”
“Geococcyx”
“Pecos Bill and His Pedigree”
“Funerals and Folklore: A Snapshot from 1909”
III. The Folk: Who We Are and What We’ve Done
“How the TFS Has Influenced Me as a Writer, But More Importantly, What It Has Meant to Me as a Listener”
“Women in the Texas Folklore Society”
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Reflections on the TFS and a Writing Life”
“Back in the Ought ’Sixties”
“The Alford Homeplace: Deconstructing a Dogtrot”
“Mexican and Mexican-American Folk Healers: Continuing to Nourish Our Sense of Humanity into the Twenty-First Century”
IV. Meetings, Memories, and More
“Keeping the Flames Burning and Passing Them On: Hootsat TFS Meetings”
“The Texas Folklore Society: Getting There Is Half the Fun”
“Folklore Society Memories”
“Confessions of a Folklore Junkie”
“Hooked”
“1968: One Family’s Folklore Odyssey”
“My First TFS Meeting”
“Looking Back with the Hansons”
“Under the Influence”
Contributors’ Vitas
Index
