Elmer Lewis Smith Collection, undated (twentieth century)

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Elmer Lewis Smith Collection, undated (twentieth century)

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The Elmer Lewis Smith Collection, undated (twentieth century), consists of six folders of notes and drafts, compiled and written by Elmer Lewis Smith, on folk superstitions, ghosts, conjuring, powwowing, folk healing, and holiday superstitions in the Shenandoah Valley.

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Special Collections, James Madison University

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Smith, Elmer Lewis

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Elmer L. Smith was born in 1920 in Newark, NJ. After earning a B.S. at Florida Southern College, an M.A. at Western Reserve University, and a Ph.D. at Syracuse University, he taught government, economics, and sociology in several PA colleges and universities. In 1958 Smith came to James Madison University (then Madison College) as Director of the Social Sciences Division. Until his death, in 1981, he conducted research and interviews to document the folk culture of the Shenandoah Valley, and pub...