The Journal of New York Folklore was published 1975-1999. Back issues are still available.
The New York Folklore Quarterly was published 1946-1974. Back issues are still available.
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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. II, No. 3, August, 1946
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THE FIFTEENTH OF REDFORD
Marjorie Lansing Porter
BON JOUR, bon jour. Comment c’a va?”
From midmorning til dark the residents of little Quebec on the Saranac celebrate an annual Old Home Day with cheerful French chatter, pasttimes, and “eats,” omitting only the lively horse trading of past years.
For 89 consecutive years, Notre Dame de l’Assumption parish has honored an anniversary, the laying of the cornerstone of the sandstone church whose white steeple is a landmark up and down the valley. Well built of native stone in 1856, the church replaced the log meetinghouse erected by the first settlers, when Redford was established in 1831 as a site for the manufacture of glass.
The fifteenth of August means just one thing to people of adjoining communities—“the Redford picnic,” held on the open hillside between the church and Sallaz Academy, so named in honor of the founder of the church and parochial school. Here for one day each year, children, parents, and oldsters join in light-hearted fun, in which priests and demure nuns, their ecclesiastical guardians, take an active part.
We joined the handshaking, back-slapping, laughing crowd, and wandered from one group to another, stopping to catch a bit of French gossip, to enjoy the reunion of white-haired grandfathers and grandmothers, to watch smiling Sisters play games, to see countless ice cream cones consumed by toddlers, giggling small girls, and well-scrubbed boys, to look with envy on merry-go-round equestrians, remembering childhood thrills; then to wander slowly in the French cemetary across the road...
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