Scope and Contents Interview contains information on J. Barre Toelken's youth in Quabin Valley, Massachusetts, including song tradition of Daman family; college life at Utah State University and University of Washington; work in uranium mining in early 1950s and introduction to the Navajo community in Monument Valley, Utah; professional life as professor at University of Oregon and Utah State University: folklore studies, Middle English language and literature; fieldwork: Navajo legends collected from Hugh...

Scope and Contents Interview contains information about Carol Edison and how she accidentally became a public sector folklorist, after earning BA and MA degrees in English from the University of Utah. She talks about the early days of public folklore programs in Utah, and how she eventually became the Utah Folk Arts Program Coordinator. She discusses the Utah State Collection of Folk Arts, and how it came to be. She also talks about her many experiences being a public sector folklorist over the years in Utah....

Scope and Contents In this interview Steve Siporin talks about how he was introduced to the field of folklore, his schooling experiences while earning his Master's Degree (at University of Oregon), and his PhD (at the University of Indiana), and positions he has held as a public folklorist over the years. He talks a little about his fieldwork experiences in the US West, as well as in Italy and Israel. He discusses his perspective on public folklore, and how the field has changed over time, and his views on the...

Scope and Contents William A. Wilson talks about his growing up years primarily in Downey, Idaho, his LDS mission to Finland, his interest in the Kalevala, his education at Brigham Young University (BA, MA) and Indiana University (PhD). He talks about the “democratic” leanings of folklore. He talks about his association with legendary folklorist Richard Dorson, his interest in both Finnish and Mormon folklore, trying to get folklore courses at BYU, coming to USU to head the Folklore Program, starting the Fife...

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Wayland D. Hand interview by folklorist Michael Owen Jones, 28 February 1984, 20 and 28 March 1984, and 17 May 1984, at UCLA.