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'Now we call that apple the Rickey' is Woodstock’s way of saying that when a man has done a thing he deserves the credit for it. It’s saying that it’s all right for the rest of the world to call the apple the Jonathan—that’s their privilege—but in Woodstock the name of the apple is going to honor the man who discovered it—Woodstock’s own Philip Rick. (from "We Call It The Rickey" by Alf Evers)
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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. XV, No. 1, Spring, 1959

SPECIAL YEAR OF HISTORY ISSUE

CONTENTS

PUBLICATIONS | VOICES | BACK  ISSUES | FOLKLORE  IN ARCHIVES | FOLK  ARTISTS  SELF-MGT | ORDER PUBLICATIONS | SEARCH



President’s Page		   2

The Ghost of Ticonderoga
Charles A. Huguenin		 4

"Boots" Van Steenburgh
Pauline Hommell		 24

The Ducking of Anne Dougel
Kenneth Scott		 28

We Call It The Rickey
Alf Evers		 36

The Legend of Breakneck
James J. Flynn		 48

André: A Case of Modern Folklore
Henry Noble MacCracken		 58

Up the Hudson Afoot and Afloat
Constance D. Sherman		 65

Dating the Action of "Rip Van Winkle"
Robert H. Woodward		 70

DEPARTMENTS		    

Upstate, Downstate
B. A. Botkin and
W. G. Tyrrell		 71

The Editor’s Bookshelf
 		 77

Contributors		   78

Postscript		   79


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