<p>During the early 1900s the promise of employment in the great coalfields of northern West Virginia drew numerous immigrants from the poorer countries of Europe. Miners came to the state from Ireland & Spain, the Italian peninsula, the Balkans, Austria, Poland, Russia & Turkey. They brought with them many of the tales & legends of their homelands, which were preserved among themselves & children. From this rich & varied heritage, Dr. Musick has chosen seventy-nine of the best & most representative tales for presentation in this volume.</p>

Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folk Tales from Europe

Politics & Social Sciences

Ruth Ann Musick

Social Sciences

McClain Printing Co.]

<p>Mountain Mother Goose is a collection of jingles, jangles, rhymes, riddles, games, and lesson stories chanted and sung on the playgrounds of Central Appalachia, recited in one-room schools, and echoed in backyards and schoolyards throught the small villages and farms that dotted the hills and valleys of West Virginia.  Stretching through most of the 20th Century, this collection of melodies traces the regional attitudes and traditions of American children at play.  As early progressive educators and folklorists, Dr. Walter Barnes and Dr. Ruth Ann Musick painstakingly gathered a rich harvest of child lore.  Dr. Barnes encouraged Dr. Musick to pluck the folk ways and narratives of youngsters by sharing with his younger colleague the many examples that he had heard from children in the rural schools around the state.</p>

Mountain Mother Goose: Child Lore of West Virginia

Walter Barnes

Children's Books

Fairmont State University Press

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