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Percival Everett, 38th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPercival Everett is the author of 25 critically acclaimed books, among them Erasure, God\u27s Country, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Among his many honors are the PEN/USA Award for Fiction, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California
Everett S. Allen Correspondence
No full textEntries include an artistic invitation from Mac and Miriam with an Eskimo greeting to meet them with Allen on Bowdoin Reunion day at Mystic Seaport, Conn., a publisher advertisement, typed letters on The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Massachusetts stationery, and a descriptive biography that includes an interview with poet Carl Sandberg, congressional testimony and exclusive political interviews in the 1950-1960\u27
Ep143 Roadside memorials, anniversaries and conferences with Holly Everett
No full textHolly Everett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University, cross-listed with the School of Music’s Ethnomusicology program. She is the author of Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture (2002), as well as articles in Contemporary Legend, Cuizine, Ethnologies, Folklore, the Folklore Historian, the Journal of American Folklore, MusiCultures, and Popular Music and Society. Holly is also the current Head of the Department of Folklore at Memorial and the President of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada
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Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture
No full textA fifteen-year-old high school cheerleader is killed while driving on a dangerous curve one afternoon. By that night, her classmates have erected a roadside cross decorated with silk flowers, not as a grim warning, but as a loving memorial. In this study of roadside crosses, the first of its kind, Holly Everett presents the history of these unique commemoratives and their relationship to contemporary memorial culture. The meaning of these markers is presented in the words of grieving parents, high school students, public officials, and private individuals whom the author interviewed during her fieldwork in Texas. Everett documents over thirty-five memorial sites with twenty-five photographs representing the wide range of creativity. Examining the complex interplay of politics, culture, and belief, she emphasizes the importance of religious expression in everyday life and analyzes responses to death that this tradition. Roadside crosses are a meeting place for communication, remembrance, and reflection, embodying on-going relationships between the living and the dead. They are a bridge between personal and communal pain–and one of the oldest forms of memorial culture. Scholars in folklore, American studies, cultural geography, cultural/social history, and material culture studies will be especially interested in this study
Scene from Lucy Moore, or the Prune Hater's Daughter
No full text1 photographic printPhotograph of two costumed actors performing on a small stage. Form left to right: Wilfred Buckland as Doc Allen and Everett Shinn as Glucose Melch
Alumni Association, Omar Craig, Newman Bolls, Tommy Everett, Henry Allen, Bobby Thames, Jack Cook, Tommy Howard, Howard Hammil
No full textOfficers pictured who led the 1968 MSU Alumni Association: Omar Craig, Newman Bolls, Tommy Everett, Henry Allen, Bobby Thames, Jack Cook, Tommy Howard, and Howard Hammilhttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/3879/thumbnail.jp
Scene from Lucy Moore, or the Prune Hater's Daughter
No full textPhotograph of three costumed actors performing on a small stage: James Moore Preston as Sammy the village simpleton, Everett Shinn as Glucose Melch, and Wilfred Buckland as Doc Allen
Scene from Lucy Moore, or the Prune Hater's Daughter
No full textPhotograph of three costumed actors performing on a small stage: James Moore Preston as Sammy the village simpleton, Everett Shinn as Glucose Melch, and Wilfred Buckland as Doc Allen
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