Students from across North Carolina will present their fieldwork research findings this weekend during the annual meeting of the North Carolina Folklore Society on Elon University’s campus.
North Carolina Folklore Society Annual Meeting
Theme: “We Are All Students of Folklore”
Saturday, April 4, 2009
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Entertainment by storyteller Orville Hicks and musician Jim Vipperman at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Holt Chapel, South Antioch Street (South Campus)
The conference is free to attend with registration at the door.
North Carolina storyteller Orville Hicks will be in attendance and folklorist Thomas McGowan will give a keynote address titled “Punkin Buyer & Mule Egg Seller: Stories on Folklor(istics) in North Carolina.”
The event is co-sponsored by Elon University and PERCS: Elon’s Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies.
Elon students taking part in the afternoon student presentations include Michael Sadler,
Clementine Wall and Kirsten Rhodes. The trio will discuss efforts to document the Cowee community in western North Carolina through the people’s stories, local traditions, and cultural landscapes.
For more information, contact Tom Mould, an associate professor of anthropology at Elon, at (336) 278-5746 or tmould@elon.edu. The conference web site, which contains a full program, can be found by clicking the link to the right of this page.
Background on the Elon PERCS program can be found by clicking a link to the right as well.