Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus papers, 1956-1974.

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Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus papers, 1956-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320085988

The collection includes materials relating to Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus's research in British and Irish folklore. Among the materials are some relating to her teaching and lecturing on British and Irish folklore and several drawings and slides of historic sites in the United Kingdom and Ireland. There are also a few items relating to a tribute to North Carolina conservationist Margaret Nygard.

ca. 2400 items (3.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7333248

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Long-Wilgus, Eleanor R.

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Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus was born in 1923 in Seattle, Wash. She received her Ph. D. in English Literature and Folklore from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1968. Long-Wilgus moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1993 shortly after the death of her husband, D.K. Wilgus, folklorist and professor of English and Anglo-American Folksong in the Department of Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. In Chapel Hill, she became an active member of the local folklore community and established the D.K. Wilgus...

Nygard, Margaret, 1925-1995

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Margaret Nygard (1925-1995) was born in Nasik, India, where her father was a British civil servant. After leaving India, she lived in England and Canada. She married English professor Holger Nygard in 1944, received her masters and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and moved to Durham, N.C., where she taught English at Durham Technical Community College and later became a social worker. In 1965, she and others formed the Eno Historical Society, which became the Association f...