Word: folklorist
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...clamor for control-or at least a big share-of North Sea reserves was accompanied by a rising sense of cultural pride as, in the words of Scots Folklorist Hamish Henderson, "a civilization claws itself back to life." The blue and white Scottish flag is increasingly flown. The Drybrough brewery prints the flag on its export cans, while the brewer of Tennent's lager pushes the slogan: "It's good ... It's satisfying ... It's Scottish." Scots revel in the fact that the country's soccer team qualified for the World Cup final this year...
...group made pilgrimages South, collecting songs, pictures, stories, and "rediscovering" some of the great performers of the 1920's who had been presumed dead for years. It was during these trips that members of the Ramblers found Roscoe Holcomb. Doc Boggs and Eck Robertson. Another urban performer and folklorist. Ralph Rinzler discovered Doc Watson while searching for old-time Tom Ashley...
...much a part of the Vineyard scenery as colored clay cliffs and salt marshes. Its present editor, Henry Hough, 71, who bought it in 1920, is a regional novelist (Lament for a City) and folklorist (Thoreau of Walden). And he has never ceased to celebrate the charms of the Vineyard in his paper. "It ought to be the function of the newspaper," wrote Hough, who will continue as editor, "to keep guard and watch over the singularities of environment, heritage, custom, and response to challenges...
...Bend counts 28 species of snakes and 60 different species of animal), Mrs. Johnson hiked up the Lost Mine Trail for a look across the Rio Grande. She ate dinner beside a campfire at sunset, listened to Western songs from local troupes and genuine tall tales by a folklorist imported from the University of. Texas...
Died. Mari Susette Sandoz, 68, folklorist of the U.S. Great Plains; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though she lived and wrote in Greenwich Village for the past 20 years, Mari Sandoz knew much of the Plains firsthand, as a Nebraska sod-buster's daughter in the 1900s who had "seen the settler-cattlemen fights" and been wounded twice herself. In later years, she was forever "tearing around on horseback and climbing the Pecos," digging behind legends of Indian wars, gamblers and lawmen for the tales she wove into a score of chronicles (Old Jules, Slogum House) whose gritty realism never...