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The New York Folklore Quarterly was published 1946-1974. Back issues are still available.

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. III, No. 1, Spring, 1947
CONTENTS

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Editor’s Page 2 President’s Page 3

ARTICLES		    

Yorker Yarns of Yore
Richard M. Dorson		 5

The Ballad of the Butcher Boy in the Ramapo Mountains
Anne Lutz		 28

Ma and Pa Pitt
A. T. Shorey		 36

The Wizard of Remsen		 Millard F. Roberts 41

The Yorker’s Folklore Contest
Mary E. Cunningham		 48

GLORY HOLE		    

Why "Doodletown"?		 J. C. Storms 57

Seumas O’Connor’s Bagpipes		 Laura M. Waffner 60

DEPARTMENTS		    

City Billet: Folklore News and Notes from New York City		 Elaine Lambert Lewis 62

Folklore in the Schools: Folklore Bibliography for Younger Children		 Bernice C. Cary 72

Review: Dorson’s Jonathan Draws the Long Bow
B. A. Botkin		 78

Farm Lore: Herb Remedies
Catherine M. Relihan 		81

Correspondence		   85

Contributors		   88


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