New York Folklore Society's Voices

From the Winter/Fall 1998 Voices:
"Just a good old Catskill Mountain hunting camp," is how Bob Hubbell, an annual guest at Camp 13, describes this isolated camp located deep in the woods at the end of a narrow valley near the village of Margaretville in Delaware County. Organized in 1933, the camp takes its name from the number of founding members. The camp is still owned by the original families . . ." Read the story about the capture of a bear recounted by the campers.

(Campers and catch at Camp 13, Dry Brook, 1982. Photograph courtesy of Melissa Ladenheim.)

NOTE: The New York Folklore Society Newsletter and New York Folklore Journal were replaced by Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore
which debuted December, 2000.

Topics for Voices

Urban legends

Folklore and social protest

Home remedies

Coming to America stories

Good luck charms and rituals

Ghost stories and supernatural occurrences

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You’ll find excerpts here from the Voices sections of selected New York Folklore Society newsletters. Select the issue below to read a sampling that offers folklore in the voices of its creators.

Fall/Winter 1999:

Manhattan Cowgirl by Rosetta Garfield
Authenticity and Kitsch: A Hungarian-American Embroiderer Revisits the Folk Art of her Native Land by Eniko Farkas
Tales from the 'Hood: Stories from the West Side Neighborhood Oral Narrative Project of Saratoga Springs

View as PDF (Vol. 20, No. 2)

Spring/Summer 1999:

From Our Readers: Western NY Coverage
The Puerto Rican Year: Celebration and Community Identity by Kate Koperski
La Fiesta de la Cruz de Mayo by Brother Luis Ruberte
Fiesta de Mayo Songs contributed by Karen Canning
Santos by Ramon Estrada-Vega

View as PDF (Vol. 20, No. 1)

Fall/Winter 1998:

Stories from Camp 13: "Just a Good Old Catskill Mountain Hunting Camp." by Melissa Ladenheim
In the Bear Den by Harvey Carr
The New Game Warden by Bill Smith
Wintering in the Adirondacks

View as PDF (Vol. 19, No. 4)

Summer 1998:

From Our Readers
Tales of an Island: Fishing and Fisherman on Long Island’s East End by John Eilertsen
Crossing the Border: Stories of the 56ers by Eniko Farkas
Hungarian Goulash by Eniko Farkas

View as PDF (Vol. 19, No. 3)

Winter/Spring 1998:

From Our Readers
Rolling Syrian Grape Leaves by Mary Jweid Bates and Sharon Bates
Solomon and the Djinn: Interview with Mohammed Ishmael by Ilana Harlow
Safeguarding Tradition: Reggie Jones, Beach Lifeguard: Interview with Reggie Jones by Nancy Solomon
Remembering Anna McKee by Peter Voorheis
Lindy Hopping at the Savoy: The Man Who Invented the Aerial

View as PDF (Vol. 19, No. 1-2)

View as PDF (Vol. 18, No. 3) — Premier issue of Voices: “The Finns of the Southern Lakes: Coffee and Pulla with Hilma and Olga” • “Pazamentry” by Jack Tepper • “Amsterdam’s Caribbean Cultural Arts Festival” • “Mind-Builders Community Folk Arts Program: Voices from the Interns” • “Night of the Wild Hunter” by Catherine Charron LaBier • “The Whale on the Erie Canal” by Francis Caraccilo • “Captain Billy and the Whale” by George Ward