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Missouri Folklore Society

2012 Conference

“Tall as a Mountain”

November 1-3, 2012

Daniel Boone Home & Heritage Center 1868 Hwy F

Lindenwood University Defiance, MO 63341
636-798-2005

Location Guide

Sappington Main

Thursday, November 1, 2012

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm / Registration—Barn Bookstore
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm / Guided Tour of the Daniel Boone Home—Barn Bookstore
Cost: Free
Meredith will give a casual guided tour of the house and part of the grounds as an introduction to the historic site hosting the conference. If you cannot make it to this tour, you will have an option to see inside the home on Saturday morning. However, that tour will not be free.
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm / Board Meeting—Old Peace Chapel, Lower
5:30 pm – 9:00 pm / Dinner and Jam Session—Van Bibber
Van Bibber is located just One Mile down Highway F from the Boone Home. It is a stone house with red shutters with an area to park your vehicles. This historic home is a special place rarely open to the public. Dinner will be a buffet, with tables inside and out to sit at. Depending on the weather, we will offer a campfire. The Jam Session can take place in the living room or outside under the cool November sky.

Friday, November 2, 2012

8:30 am – 2:00 pm / Registration
Location: Barn
9:00 am – 10:00 am / Concurrent Sessions A
Mary Alicia Owen: Among the Voodoos—SAP
Chair:
Mary Alicia Owen's “Sacred Council Hills”
Betsy Delmonico, Professor, Truman State University
Voodoo Priest, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies
Greg Olson
Folktales and the Written Word—OPC B
Chair:
“A River Runs Through It:” The Role of the Mississippi in Frank Stanford’s South
Caroline Collins, Assistant Professor, Quincy University
Folk vs. Fake: Folk Medicine and Healers in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Genevieve Vallentine,
A Russian Werewolf in New Jersey: Use of Graphic Fiction to Recreate the Experience of a Wondertale
Chris Sutton,
Making and Playing Dulcimers—ENG
Chair:
James E. Caudle
10:15 am – 11:15 am / Concurrent Sessions B
Spinning Thread into Gold: Fiber Arts and Folklore—SAP
Meredith Rau, Chairman
An Open Panel about the Traditions and Interests in Fiber Arts
Annie Fuller, University City Library
Meredith Rau, Lindenwood University
My Corner of the Porch—OPC
Chair:
My Corner of the Porch: Stories from my Childhood in the Missouri Bootheel
Loretta Washington
American Foodways I—ENG
LuAnne Roth, Chairman
Food n’ Frasier
Alex R. Carpenter
Are You Going to Eat That?
Tim Murphy
Function of Food in Cool Hand Luke
John Picray
11:30 am – 12:30 pm / Concurrent Sessions C
Borrowed and Buried: The Importance of African American Place and Narratives—SAP
Chair:
African American Cemeteries: Prime Real Estate
Carole Shelton
Archer Alexander and Jim: Missouri Slave Narratives as Written by William Eliot and Mark Twain
Christopher Otto
Classical Literature as Folklore—OPC
Chair:
Anne Williams
Childhood, Stories, and Superstitions—ENG
Chair:
Folk History From Down on the Farm in Shelby County
Holly Fling, Truman State University
Round Robin of the Gray Family
Ellen Gray Massey
Bottle Trees and Other Superstitions in the Delta
Gary Buxton
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm / Lunch
If you purchased a box lunch, you can pick it up in the Barn.
Soda and water are also available for purchase. You can eat on site while visiting the buildings or during the student caucus.
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm / Life on the Frontier—Village
While eating Lunch, please walk around the Village. Six of the buildings (listed below) will be open with Volunteer Interpreters representing and discussing life on the Missouri frontier in the early nineteenth century. Feel free to interact with them and experience the history of Daniel Boone's time.
Open Buildings:
School House
Carpenter Shop
Old Peace Chapel
Detached Kitchen
General Store
Grist Mill
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm / Student Meet-and-Greet—OPC
This time is set aside for students from across the universities to meet and share in ideas, interests, and goals. While this is set aside for students, others are welcome to attend. The time limit can extend outside the 30 minutes set aside.
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm / Keynote Address—OPC
Lila: The Life of a Missouri Slave
Angela da Silva
Lila’s story is a universal one. Hers was a life of pain and untold suffering that was shared by many slave women, but there were also moments of happiness and laughter. Lila was one of the millions of faceless, nameless black women whose contributions to the wealth of the nation transcended not only her labor, but her very soul. Yet, she endured and thrived and lent her strength to the survival of a people. These women had name and dreams and they wanted the same things in life that everyone wanted.
Cultural preservationist, Angela da Silva, has given voice to Lila and brings her forward to tell her story and to give voice to slave women whom time and memory have forgotten. “Lila” has performed for events large and small all over the country. School age children are often mesmerized by her.
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm / Concurrent Sessions D
American Foodways II—SAP
LuAnne Roth, Chairman
You Often Eat What Others Think You Are: A Folkloristic Reflection on Zombie Foodways
LuAnne Roth
Food of the Future: The Unhuman in 28 Days Later and the H1N1 Hoax
Kyle Burton
Following the Muse: Performance and Interpretation—OPC
Chair:
Following the Fiddler Home: Some Thoughts on Using Historically and Regionally Correct Music For Your Site
William Ray, Lindenwood University
The Black Madonna: A Performance
Cecil Williams
Building Traditions and Tearing them Down: Space and Folklore—ENG
Chair:
Building a Modern Amish Farmstead: Holmes Country Tradition Comes to Missouri
Brett Rogers
Southern Magnolias in the Neighborhood: Folk Architecture in Jefferson City’s Moreau Drive Area
Rachel Spillers
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm / Concurrent Sessions E
Zerelda James: My Boys Frank and Jesse—SAP B
Chair:
Dianne Moran
Pat Frank
Jam Sessions Old and New—OPC B
Howard Marshall, Chairman
Comments on Continuing Evolutions of the Old-Time Fiddler’s Jam Session
Howard Marshall, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia
Carp Camp: A Singular Jam
Cathy Barton and Dave Para, Boonville
Finding the Folk through Science: Medicine and Ethnobiology—ENG
Chair:
Ethnobiology: Plants, Animals, and People
Julie Meyer, Truman State University, Kirksville
Folk Medical Practices Among College Students: A Snapshot
Adam Davis, Professor, Truman State University
6:15 pm – 10:00 pm / Dinner Reception—Wine Country Gardens
Buffet Dinner opens at 6:00 pm
Auction
Jam Session

Saturday, November 3, 2012

9:00 am – 10:00 am / Guided Daniel Boone Home Tour—Option A
Cost: $6.00, $5.00 (55+)
Meet at the Gift Shop where you will pay and meet your guide for a one hour tour. Be sure to say you are part of the Missouri Folklore Group and you will receive the reservation rate, listed above.
If you wish to do a two hour tour, of the home & village, the Cost will be $10.00 or $8.00 (55+). Be sure to clarify if you want the 2 hour when you purchase your tickets.
10:00 am – 11:00 am / Guided Daniel Boone Home Tour—Option B
Cost: $6.00, $5.00 (55+)
Meet at the Gift Shop where you will pay and meet your guide for a one hour tour. Be sure to say you are part of the Missouri Folklore Group and you will receive the reservation rate, listed above.
10:15 am – 11:15 am / Board Meeting—Van Bibber
11:30 am – ?? / Winery Caravan—Meet in Boone Home Parking Lot
Cars will leave and drive to Montelle Winery in Augusta for lunch and a wine tasting. From there, those who wish to continue will travel on to a second winery of their choosing.
Tasting Cost: Free
Optional Wineries:
Mount Pleasant
Augusta Vineyards
Sugar Creek
Yellow Farmhouse
Chandler Hill
11:30 am – ?? / Main Street St. Charles Caravan—Meet in Boone Home Parking Lot
Cars will leave and drive to Main Street St. Charles for lunch at Lewis & Clark's. Afterward, we will go on a tour of the First Missouri State Capitol Historic Site, across the street from the restaurant. From there, you are free to leave or shop the many boutiques the line the historic Main Street.
Museum Cost: $4.00