Nine Tales Told by Joshua Alley of Jonesport, Maine in 1934 (original) (raw)

2004, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress.

Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklife Center collections. This introduction of the remarkable Maine narrator Joshua Alley, followed by nine of Alley’s tales recorded in 1934, constitute narratives 62-70 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 219-250. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, notes.

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