Session A: Memories of the Riverside

SESSIONS

Thursday, November 8

2:30-3:45

Session A: Memories of the Riverside

Chair: Dave Para

Meredith Ludwig, Cathy Barton Para, and Dave Para

Meredith Ludwig will present an overview of the Missouri River Folkhistory Project and how the musical "Gumbo Bottoms" came to be. Cathy will discuss the musical and Dave and Cathy will perform some of the songs Cathy composed.

Session B:

Chair: Betsy Delmonico

Slammers Delight

Michael Bono

CILF (Corpse I'd Like to ****): The You Tube Response to the Deaths of Anna Nicole and Croc Hunter

Meredith Heist and Andrew Warner

4:00-5:15

Session A: On Women Writing About Women (Panel Discussion)

Sharon Kinney Hanson

Margot McMillen

6:30 Dinner

Welcome

Guest Speaker: Dr. Carolyn R. Mahoney

President, Lincoln University

Friday, November 9

8:30-9:45

Session A:

Chair:

Limited Access: A Unified Structural Motif and its Context Dependent Meanings

Adam Brooke Davis

An Ever-Growing Torrent: Finding More Folk Songs on the Web

Lyn Wolz

Session B: Folklore as Mystery and History

Chair: Debra Greene

The Spook Light

Thomas Minihan

Folk or Fiction: African American Cultural Idioms

Keith Ware

Bulgarian and Thracian Folk Ballads'

Michael Fichter

Session C:

Chair:

Vance Randolph's Years in Southeast Kansas

Randy Roberts

The Sound of a Fiddle: Hearing the Music in Thomas Hart Benton's Folksong Depictions

Annett Richter

10:00-11:15

Session A:Regionalism and Re-regionalization in Italian

American Folklore

Francis M. Malpezzi

William M. Clements

(Friday continued)

Session B:The Uses of Folklore: Applications of Authentic Regional Folklore

Chair: John Schleppenbach

Human Use of Plants for Medicinal Purposes

Alfred F. Pogge

Can Folklore Stand Alone

Fr. Phil Hoebing

Authentic Folklore and Storytelling

Rev./Dr. Paul Schwartzkopf

Session C:

Chair:

Crockett's Shotgun: A Black House on the Banks of the Missouri

Brett Rogers

“Mrs. Amber’s Story” (A Reading)

Gladys Coggswell

11:30-1:00Lunch

Guest Speaker, Mark Schreiber

1:15 Departure for Tours

1:30-2:45

Session A: Missouri's Folk History in Women's Lives

Chair: Rebecca B. Schroeder

Ruth Wilson Banks Perry, Inspiration for Arrow Rock: The Story of a Missouri Village

Authorene Phillips

Jesse Benton Fremont's Missouri

Ilene Stone

The Owen’s Sisters of St. Joseph

Doris Mueller

(Friday continued)

Session B:Tempted by the Fruit of an Other: Culinary

Tourism in Columbia (Part I)

Chair: LuAnne Roth

Culinary Tourism at Formosa: A Case of Cultural Confusion

Caitlin Garing

China Kitchen: What Does Authenticity Mean to You?

John Morse

An Analysis of Osaka Japanese Restaurant

Kath Athanassiou

Session C: Black Missourians in the Old West

Chair: Michael Patrick

Black Missourians in the Old West

Michael Patrick

Songs About Black Missourians

Cecil Williams

Drawings of Black Missourians

Keith Conaway

3:00-4:15

Session A:

Chair:

The Verbal Art of the Auctioneer: A Performance Tradition in Ethnographic and Historical Perspective

Gary Buxton

Mary Kennedy McCord, Queen of the Ozarks

Judy Domeny Bowen

(Friday continued)

Session B:Tempted by the Fruit of an Other: Culinary Tourism in Columbia (Part II)

Chair: LuAnne Roth

Que Fiesta!: Celebrating Cinco de Mayo in El Sombrero, a 100% Authentic Mexican Restaurant

Connie Blackwell

"Fresh-Mex" as Negotiation of the Border Culture "Other"

Courtney Peetz

"If Our Walls Could Talk:" The Paradoxes and Complexities of the Cracker Barrel Restaurant

Session C:

Chair:

Three Islamic Heroines

Betsy Delmonico

Herstory: Stories of African American Women and the Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Elizabeth Brisco Wilson

6:30Dinner

Guest Speaker

8:30 Auction

Saturday, November 10

Lincoln University Campus: Inman E. Page Library

8:45-10:00

Session A: French Traditions in Missouri

Chair:

Food and Customary Traditions of the French Ozarks

Rachel Gholson

Musican and other French Traditions in Missouri: The Carriere Collection

Kent Beaulne dit Bone

Session B: Blind Boone

Chair:

The Story and Music of Blind Boone

Lucille Salerno

Antonio F. Holland

10:15-11:30

Session A:

Chair:

A Genre of Humor That May be Unique to the U.S.A.

Peter Ward Nichols

A Descriptive Method for Preserving Regional Folk Sayings

Bob Bohlken

Session B:

Chair:

Geronimo in St. Louis, 1904

William M. Clements

Ever Toward the Setting Sun They Push Us: American Indian Identity in the Work of Mary Alicia Owen

Greg Olson

11:30

Business Meeting Teleconference Center

Lunch Room//// Page Library

12:30 Tour of Lincoln University Hilltop Historic Campus and

Soldiers Memorial

1:30 Tour of Munichburg