Finding Your Family Folklore

Table-top exhibit requiring 6' table. One shipping case. 1985

This teaching exhibit includes family migration stories, courtship tales, stories about child-bearing and child-rearing, family misfortune sagas and proverbs, as well as childhood memories and bedtime stories. The exhibit leads viewers on a scavenger hunt through rooms of their homes and illustrates the kinds of folklore they might find. Lesson plans for teachers help encourage students and community groups to contribute stories and photographs to their local historical society or archives.

Please select one of the following exhibit categories:
African American Studies | Anthropology and Archeology | Art
Folklore | Government | History | Literature | Science | Women's Studies

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