USU Folklore Program

**SAVE THE DATE**

Everyone is invited to come and sing, share memories, or simply listen in and celebrate Barre Toelken's life and work.

Saturday, December 15th, 2018 at 2pm in the Ellen Eccles Conference Center auditorium on USU's campus.

Shenandoah -- Barre Toelken Distinguished folklore scholar Barre Toelken sings here informally with a group of friends at his house in Logan, Utah. Since Barre suffered a stroke in July...

Hope you can all attend!

There will be a Celebration of Life for Barre on Saturday, December 15th, 2018 at 2pm in the Ellen Eccles Conference Center, Utah State University, 5005 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT

Friends and colleagues wanting to make a donation in Barre’s honor to support the Folklore Program at Utah State can send contributions, clearly marked as being in his name, to the address below.

Folklore Program Barre Toelken fund
c/o Annie Strickland, accountant
Department of English
3200 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3200

Farewell to one of our greatest folklorists!

Word is reaching the folklore community of the passing last evening of a great folklorist, Barre Toelken. Barre is known to every folklorist as the author of the classic books "The Dynamics of Folklore" and "The Anguish of Snails." He worked in many areas of folklore and folklife, including especially Navajo mythology and Anglo-American folksongs.

From 1985 until 2003, Barre directed Utah State University's folklore program. Before that, he established the folklore program at the University of Oregon. In 2016, he received the American Folklore Society's lifetime scholarly achievement award. At the time of his passing, Barre had been in hospice for several weeks.

AFC staff members extend our condolences to his family, friends, and students. We will post a fuller tribute to Barre at "Folklife Today" in the coming days. In the meantime, find at the link all the documentation generated by AFC's Montana Folklife Survey project back in 1979, including more photos of Barre. Barre was one of the leaders of the fieldwork team.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/montana-folklife-survey-1979/about-this-collection/?loclr=fbafc

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The Folklore Program at Utah State University is pleased to announce that this year's 2016 Fife Honor Lecture will be delivered by Jens Lund, PhD. The title of his talk is, "I Done What I Could": Occupational Folk Poetry in the Pacific Northwest.

Please join us on Wed., Oct. 05 at 12:30 pm at the David B. Haight Alumni Center on the USU campus for his talk. Everyone welcome; reception to follow immediately.

Campus folklore gets creative!

Last night, the gods of were appeased. Either that or a kiss on the A went horribly wrong. We're not sure which.

Celebrating with the USU Folklore Club! !