The following articles have appeared in the Louisiana Folklife Festival program books, the Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival program book, and other publications. They are listed in the following categories. General Information Regional and Cultural Groups New Populations -- Louisiana's Immigrant and Refugee Communities Children and Family Folklore Material Culture/Crafts and Foodways Music Traditions Occupational Traditions Oral Traditions Ritual Traditions Folklore and Literature Public Folklore and Documentation Tools Essays for Students   General Information The Creole State: An Introduction to Louisiana Traditional Culture - Nicholas R. Spitzer Louisiana’s Traditional Cultures: An Overview - Maida Owens Thinking About Tradition - Nalini Raghavan   Regional and Cultural Groups A Commentary: African Cultural Retentions in Louisiana - Charles E. Siler A Kinder, Gentler St. Nicholas: Transformation and Meaning in a "Louisiana German" Tradition - Rocky L. Sexton Caddo Homecoming - Dayna Bowker Lee Cajun Women and the Country Mardi Gras Tradition - Carolyn Ware Cane Brakes, High Water, Drought: The Mississippi Delta - Tom Rankin Cane River Creole Community - Dayna Bowker Lee Choctaw Heritage of Louisiana and Mississippi - Deborah Boykin Croatians in Southeastern Louisiana -- Overview - Carolyn Ware Customs, Traditions, and Folklore of a Rural Southern Italian-American Community - Harry P. Becnel, Jr. The Delta Folklife Project - Susan Roach East Baton Rouge and Livingston Parishes - Maida Owens Bergeron and Joyce Marie Jackson España y La Louisiana - H.F. "Pete" Gregory Excerpts from The Anonymous Breaux Manuscript - Translated by George Reinecke From Evangeline Hot Sauce to Cajun Ice: Signs of Ethnicity in South Louisiana - Barry Jean Ancelet Gefilte Fish in the Land of the Kingfish: Jewish Life in Louisiana - Susan Levitas He's The Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana - by Kalamu ya Salaam (with an introduction by William Fagaly) Gifts From The Hills: North Central Louisiana Folk Traditions - by Susan Roach Indians and Folklife in the Florida Parishes - H. F. "Pete Gregory Jewish Folklore in Northeastern Louisiana - Ben Sandmel The Felicanas - Susan Garrett Davis The Florida Parishes: An Overview - Joel Gardner Hungarian Folklife in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana - Virginia Romero The Invisible Population: Mexicans and Central Americans in Northern and Central Louisiana - Lisa Abney Louisiana French Folklore and Folklife - Barry J. Ancelet Louisiana Native Americans: An Overview - H. F. "Pete" Gregory Making a Home in the Delta: Women and the Domestic Environment - Deborah Boykin Mardi Gras Indians: Culture and Community Empowerment - Michael Smith Noms de Bayou: French Place Names in North Louisiana - Kelby Ouchley North Louisiana Folklife Traditions and Research: An Overview - Susan Roach The Northshore - St. Tammany Parish - Janice Dee Gilbert Ouachita River Mounds: A Five Millennium Mystery - Lori Tucker The Piney Woods - Tangipahoa, St. Helena, Washington Parishes - Joy J. Jackson Splittin' on the Grain: Folk Art In Clifton, Louisiana- Shari Miller and Miriam Rich The Talimali Band of Apalachee- Dayna Bowker Lee Le Voisinage: Evolution of Community in Cajun Country - Dana David Vietnamese Folklife in New Orleans - Kathy Kilbourne West of the Ouachita: Conserving the Heritage of the Pine Hills and River Valley of North West Louisiana - Susan Roach   New Populations -- Louisiana's Immigrant and Refugee Communities Offerings to Kings and Buddha: Vietnamese Ritual Activities at Chua Bo De: The Vietnamese Buddhist Community in New Orleans Area - Allison Truitt A Sampling of Indian Arts and Traditions in Louisiana. Satyanarayana Puja: A Hindu Prayer Service in South Louisiana - Daria Woodside Dancing in the Light: The Nine-Day Festival of Navaratri in South Louisiana - Daria Woodside   Children and Family Folklore African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana - Mona Lisa Saloy Bonfires on the Levee: A Family Tradition in Ascension Parish - Carol Gravois If Your Eggs Are Cracked, Please Step Down: Easter Egg Knocking in Marksville - Sheri Lane Dunbar Sample Fieldnotes: Teen Memories of Grade School Traditions -Maida Owens   Material Culture/Crafts and Foodways All-Day Singing and Dinner on the Ground - Shana Walton Choctaw Split Cane Basketry - Dayna Bowker Lee Crafts from the "Back Days" - Claude Medford Field Notes on All Saints' Day, 1985 and 1986 - Rosan Augusta Jordan and Frank de Caro Folk Art in the Clifton Community - Shari Miller and Miriam Rich Folk Crafts: A Hand-Me-Down Tradition - C. Ray Brassieur From Custom to Coffee Cake: The Commodification of the Louisiana King Cake - Janet Ryland He's The Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana - by Kalamu ya Salaam (with an introduction by William Fagaly) Georgie and Allen Manuel and Cajun Wire Screen Masks - Ronnie E. Roshto "In My Father’s House": North Louisiana Gravehouses as Art and Technology - Marcy Frantom "Keep Your Mind and Your Hands Busy:" Expressive Dimensions of the Lone Quilter - Susan Roach Louisiana Boatbuilding: An Unfathomed Fortune - C. Ray Brassieur Louisiana Cooking: A Way of Life - Ulysses S. Ricard Louisiana’s Food Traditions: An Insider’s Guide - Maida Owens Louisiana Foodways in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying - Courtney Ramsay Making Tamales in Northwestern Louisiana - Dayna Bowker Lee Material Cultural Landscape of the Florida Parishes in Historical Perspective - Milton B. Newton, Jr. Places They Remember: The Art of Clementine Hunter and Sarah Albritton - Susan Roach and Peter Jones Textile Uses in the Home of Central Louisiana Czechs - Rose Walker Traditional Quiltmaking in Louisiana - Susan Roach Quilts as Women’s Documents: The Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project - Susan Roach and Laura Westbrook   Music Traditions At Play in the Delta - Michael Luster Brownie Ford: Lifelines of a Woods Cowyboy - Nicholas R. Spitzer Cajun Music: Alive and Well in Louisiana - Ann Savoy Cajun Music as Oral Poetry - Carolyn Ware Clapping On Two and Four - Kalamu ya Salaam Country Chameleons: Cajuns on the Louisiana Hayride - Tracey E. W. Laird Crescent City Country: Hillbilly Music in New Orleans - J. Michael Luster "Don’t Give Up Your Day Job:" Country Music - Terry A. Seelinger Fiddling in Louisiana - Ron Yule "From Country to City: The Blues and Gospel in the Florida Parishes and Baton Rouge - Ben Sandmel Hayride Boogie: Blues, Rockabilly and Soul from the Louisiana Hill and Delta Country - Michael Luster Introduction and Use of Accordions in Cajun Music - Malcolm L. Comeaux J. D. Miller and Floyd Soileau: A Comparison of Two Small Town Recordmen of Acadiana - Shane Bernard The Hiding and Watching Louisiana I-20 Blues - Nicholas Rey Deriso The Gospel Train: The Zion Travelers Spiritual Singers - Dr. Joyce Jackson Louisiana: A Guitarist's Paradise - Ben Sandmel Making Music: The Art of Hand-built Stringed Instruments - Susan Roach Mr. K-Doe Goes to Washington: The Monumental New Orleans R&B Star Barnstorms the Capital City - Ben Sandmel Music of the Black Churches - Joyce M. Jackson The North Louisiana String Band - Susan Roach Pretty, Little, and Fickle: Images of Women in Cajun Music - Laura Westbrook Public and Private Domains of Cajun Women Musicians in Southwest Louisiana - Lisa Richardson Rockin’ the Country, North Louisiana Style - Michael Luster Since Ol' Gabriel's Time: Hezekiah and the Houserockers Liner Notes - David Evans The Treasured Traditions of Louisiana Music - Ben Sandmel Twisting at the Fais Do Do: Swamp Pop in South Louisiana - Shane K. Bernard   Occupational Traditions Big River Traditions: Folklife on the Mississippi River - Ben Sandmel Calling The Cotton Press - Donald W. Hatley Deer Hunting with Dogs - Terry Jones The McNeill Street Pumping Station- Dayna Bowker Lee "A Man Can Stand, Yeah:" Ranching Traditions in Louisiana - Jane Vidrine Oilfield Lore - Ben Sandmel Riding Clubs in Central Louisiana Lore - Rolanda Teal Shrimping in Louisiana: Overview of a Tradition - Laura Landry Waiting for Babies: Lay Midwives in Louisiana- Maida Owens "Willing to Take A Risk:" The Folklore of Cropdusting - Susan Roach and Janet Ryland "Willing to Take A Risk:" Working in the Delta - Susan Roach   Oral Traditions African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana - Mona Lisa Saloy African American Toast Tradition - Mona Lisa Saloy Political Pomp: Political Storytelling in Louisiana - C. Renee Harvison Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black Humor - Mona Lisa Saloy The Stories of the Old People: Native American Storytelling - H. F. "Pete" Gregory Storytelling Traditions in Louisiana - C. Renee Harvison Swapping Stories in Louisiana - Maida Owens and Carl Lindahl Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana - Carl Lindahl, Maida Owens, and C. Renee Harvison An Urban Legend: Workers Buried in a Concrete Piling of the U.S. 190 Mississippi River Bridge - from the Smiley Anders column, Baton Rouge Advocate   Ritual Traditions A Kinder, Gentler St. Nicholas: Transformation and Meaning in a "Louisiana German" Tradition - Rocky L. Sexton All-Day Singing and Dinner on the Ground - Shana Walton Bonfires on the Levee: A Family Tradition in Ascension Parish - Carol Gravois Cajun Women and the Country Mardi Gras Tradition - Carolyn Ware Contemporary Cauchemar: Experience, Belief, Prevention - Katherine Roberts Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras - Pat Mire Decorating for the Shrimp Fleet Blessing: Chauvin, Louisiana - Betsy Gordon Field Notes on All Saints' Day, 1985 and 1986 - Rosan Augusta Jordan and Frank de Caro If Your Eggs Are Cracked, Please Step Down: Easter Egg Knocking in Marksville - Sheri Lane Dunbar La Quiñceanara: Towards an Ethnographic Analysis of a Life-Cycle Ritual - Norma Elia Cantú "Like A River Flowing with Living Water:" Worshiping in the Mississippi Delta - Joyce Marie Jackson Louisiana Celebrations Rooted in Tradition - Jane Vidrine Neither Spared nor Spoiled: The Mardi Gras Chase in Choupic, Louisiana - Madeline Domangue Cagle Ritual Spaces in Traditional Louisiana Communities: Italian, Nicaraguan, and Vietnamese Altars - Carolyn Ware "Take Me to the Water:" African American River Baptism - Annie Staten and Susan Roach Traditional Medicines - Claude Medford The Varieties of Mardi Gras - Frank de Caro Le Voisinage: Evolution of Community in Cajun Country - Dana David   Folklore and Literature Gaines' Fifteen Narrators: Narrative Styles and Storytelling Technique in A Gathering of Old Men - Marcia Gaudet Louisiana Foodways in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying- Courtney Ramsay   Public Folklore and Documentation Tools Cemetery Preservation Guide - Sheila Richmond Documenting Quilting - Susan Roach Festival, Cultural Tourism, and the Louisiana Folklife Program- Maida Owens Fieldwork Basics Overview- Paddy Bowman, Sylvia Bienvenu, and Maida Owens Is "Folk" a Four-Letter Word? - John Laudun Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation through Apprenticeships- Sheri Dunbar and Maida Owens Learning from Your Community: Folklore and Video in the Schools, A Classroom Curriculum for Grades 4-8 - Gail Matthews-DeNatale and Don Patterson Sample Fieldnotes: Teen Memories of Grade School Traditions -Maida Owens   Essays for Students Cajun Wedding Traditions - Jane Vidrine (For 4th graders) Conducting An Interview (For 8th Graders) It's a Very Pink Day in My Neighborhood: Spanish Town, Baton Rouge (For 8th Graders) Louisiana's Three Folk Regions (For 8th Graders) The Hungarians of Louisiana: An Overview Gospel Music in Louisiana (For 8th Graders) What is Folklife and Why Study It? (For 8th Graders)

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