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Among the not-so-well-known fellow travelers: Anthologist Ben Botkin; Playwright Arnaud (Deep Are the Roots) d'Usseau; Artists Philip Evergood,* Raphael Soyer and Max Weber; Pianist Ray Lev. Just over half were members of the Masses & Mainstream staff...
These two books are encyclopedias of U.S. folklore. Author Woodward is chiefly concerned with the historical artifacts, Editor Botkin with the artifancies, of U.S. life...
Killers, Saints, Miracle Men. In 1938, Ben Botkin joined the Federal Writers' Project of the late WPA to direct the collecting of U.S. folklore, saw the Project disbanded before he could publish much of his material. For five years Botkin continued to collect and edit the folklore included in this whopping, hodgepodge anthology, to which folk-loving Carl Sand burg (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) has written the folksy foreword...
...Johnny Apple, seed, The Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known, rarely published Americana. If they tell little about U.S. history, they tell much about U.S. character. Editor Botkin wisely keeps his comment to a minimum, lets his collection tell its own story in its own lingo...
...moppets also contribute hundreds of little rhymes that fit Editor Botkin's definition of folklore: "The stuff that travels and the stuff that sticks." Samples : Eight and eight are sixteen, Stick your nose in kerosene, Wipe it off with ice cream...