Maude Minish Sutton papers, 1917-1935 [manuscript].

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Maude Minish Sutton papers, 1917-1935 [manuscript].

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Typed copy of "A Very Great Lady" by Sutton about collecting family papers to solve a mystery and folklore materials, including notes on folk games, ballads of Avery County Sutton collected in 1917 and 1918, notes on cotton baron Simpson Bobo Tanner, and a list of charter members of the North Carolina Folklore Society. Three notebooks (on microfilm) are included: a record of a hiking trip Sutton took in 1921 with four other women in the North Carolina mountains; a notebook containing poems Sutton wrote in 1921-1922 and a few collected song lyrics; and a scrapbook with newspaper articles Sutton wrote 1927-1935, including her 1935 series called "Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge."

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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North Carolina Folklore Society

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The North Carolina Folklore Society was organized in 1912 at the instigation of the American Folklore Society and Frank C. Brown (1870-1943) "for such literary and educational purposes as the study of folklore, and especially the collection, preservation, and publication of the folklore of North Carolina." Brown was secretary-treasurer, 1913-1943. He was succeeded by Arthur Palmer Hudson (1892-1978), who served until 1964. Hudson established the Society's journal, "North Carolina Folklore," in 1...

Sutton, Maude Minish, -1936

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Maude Minish Sutton of Caldwell County, N.C., was a teacher, writer, and folklorist. She taught in Chapel Hill, China Grove, Avery County, and Lenoir, N.C. Sutton was also a contributor to North Carolina newspapers and on the staff of the Lenoir News-Topic. She married Dennis Howard Sutton. From the guide to the Maude Minish Sutton Papers, ., 1917-1935, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Maude Minish Sutton, teacher, write...

Tanner, Simpson Bobo, 1853-1924

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